West Visayas State University

Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.
High School,Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National
Vocational High School, Janiuay High School)
Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines
*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894
* Website: janiuay.wvsu.edu.ph*Email Address: janiuay@wvsu.edu.ph

Course Number: SS 112

Course Title: ETHICS

UNIT II: ETHICS

(MORAL AND NON MORAL)

SUBMITTED BY:
ROYGIN LASTE
JENEROSE MARBEBE
RAIZA MEDELIN MACRON
ALLYSA MARIE SILBOL
BEED IV-A

SUBMITTED TO:
JEE N. TANANGONAN
Course Facilitator
 West Visayas State University
Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.
High School,Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National
Vocational High School, Janiuay High School)
Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines
*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894
* Website: janiuay.wvsu.edu.ph*Email Address: janiuay@wvsu.edu.ph

Roygin Laste BEED IV-A Jee N. Tanangonan

Raiza Medelin Marcon BEED IV-A Instructor
Jenerose Marbebe BEED IV-A
Allysa Marie Silbol BEED IV-A
Reporter

ETHICS 112

WHY BE MORAL?

 A Morality is central to liking, respecting, and understanding people. What did we

find? Morality was central to evaluation. When deciding whether we like, respect,
and understand a person, we care most about whether that person is moral,
more so than whether he or she is sociable or competent. However, morality was
equally important to liking and respecting a person, yet relatively less important
to understanding a person. It may be that understanding someone is more
complex than liking and respecting, and is affected by a wider variety of
personality, behavioral, or relational qualities. It’s also possible that people
simply do not agree on what it takes to understand someone (e.g., I care about
morality, but you care more about competence when trying to understand
someone).

 Which moral traits do we care about? Second, not all moral traits were equally
important. Across many traits, honesty, compassion, fairness, and generosity
were most important to liking, respecting, and understanding. Other moral traits,
such as purity and wholesomeness, were seen as less important; even less than
certain competent traits (e.g., intelligence, articulate).

MORAL AND NON-MORAL STANDARDS

 Morality may refer to the standards that a person or a group has about what is
right and wrong, or good and evil. Accordingly, moral standards are those
concerned with or relating to human behavior, especially the distinction between
good and bad (or right and wrong) behavior.
 Moral standards involve the rules people have about the kinds of actions they
believe are morally right and wrong, as well as the values they place on the
kinds of objects they believe are morally good and morally bad. Some ethicists
equate moral standards with moral
 values and moral principles.

 Technically, religious rules, some traditions, and legal statutes (i.e. laws and
ordinances) are non-moral principles, though they can be ethically relevant
depending on some factors and contexts.
The following six (6) characteristics of moral standards further
differentiate them from non-moral standards:

• a. Moral standards involve serious wrongs or significant benefits. Moral

standards deal with matters which can seriously impact, that is, injure or benefit
human beings.

• b. Moral standards ought to be preferred to other values.

Moral standards have overriding character or hegemonic authority.
 West Visayas State University
Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.
High School,Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National
Vocational High School, Janiuay High School)
Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines
*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894
* Website: janiuay.wvsu.edu.ph*Email Address: janiuay@wvsu.edu.ph

Roygin Laste BEED IV-A Jee N. Tanangonan

Raiza Medelin Marcon BEED IV-A Instructor
Jenerose Marbebe BEED IV-A
Allysa Marie Silbol BEED IV-A
Reporter

• c. Moral standards are not established by authority figures.

Moral standards are not invented, formed, or generated by authoritative bodies
or persons such as nations’ legislative bodies. Ideally instead, these values ought
to be considered in the process of making laws.

• d. Moral standards have the trait of universalizability.

Simply put, it means that everyone should live up to moral standards. To be
more accurate, however, it entails that moral principles must apply to all who are
in the relevantly similar situation.
• e. Moral standards are based on impartial considerations.
Moral standard does not evaluate standards on the basis of the interests of a
certain person or group, but one that goes beyond personal interests to a
universal standpoint in which each person’s interests are impartially counted as
equal.

• f. Moral standards are associated with special emotions and vocabulary.

Prescriptively indicates the practical or action-guiding nature of moral standards.
These moral standards are generally put forth as injunction or imperatives (such
as, ‘Do not kill,’ ‘Do no unnecessary harm,’ and ‘Love your neighbor’). These
principles are proposed for use, to advise, and to influence to action.
Retroactively, this feature is used to evaluate behavior, to assign praise and
blame, and to produce feelings of satisfaction or of guilt.