Name: Mark Joven V.

Naraiso Date: August 30, 2021

Course, Year & Section: BSN-1 Instructor:
Subject: Ethics

Module 1
Lesson 2: The Moral Dimension of Human Existence

Assignment:
1. Research
Create a sample survey whether people nowadays make decisions using the eight characteristics of
moral principles and six characteristics of moral standards.
2. Look for an article or news item applying the above-mentioned moral principles and moral standards.

Sample Survey
Name: ______________________________ Age: _____________
Course: _____________________________ Year & Section: ________________
Instruction: Please indicate your level of agreement or disagreement with each of these statements regarding the
Eight and Six Characteristics of Moral Principles and Moral Standards respectively. Below is the indicator
using Likert Scale to guide you in answering the survey. Also, kindly put a check (/) in every item
on its right side.

4 – Strongly Agree 2 - Disagree

3 – Agree 1 – Strongly Disagree
Statements Indicators
A. Eight Characteristics of Moral Principles 4 3 2 1
1. Moral Principles must be workable to all in the general society.
2. Moral Principles must apply to all who are in the relevantly similar situation.
3. Moral Principles have hegemonic authority.
4. Mora Principles must not be made public in order to play an action-guiding
rule in our lives.
5. Moral Principles are generally put forth as injunction or imperatives.
6. Moral principle must not be based on objective criteria rather
7. Moral principles examine on an abstract level such matters as the meaning of
moral judgments.
8. Autonomy plays various roles in theoretical accounts of persons, concepts of
moral obligation and responsibility.
B. Six Characteristics of Moral Standards
1. Moral standards involve behaviors that seriously affect other people’s well-
being.
2. Moral standards take a less important consideration than other standards,
including self-interest.
3. Moral standards do not depend on any external authority but in how the
person perceives reasonableness of the action.
4. Moral standards are believed to be not universal.
5. Moral standards are based on objectivity.
6. Moral standards are associated with vocabulary that depicts emotion or
feelings.
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The article of Frank Vanclay, James T. Baines, and C. Nicholas Taylor which is entitled “Principle for
ethical research involving humans: ethical profession practice in impact assessment Part I. it has been received
last October 14, 2012 and was accepted last September 21, 2013 and finally published online last November 08,
2013.