Prof: MariaLourdes, StaMaria Course: BUSINESS ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPOSIBILITY (BS 8) Time: Wednesday 5:30 PM-8:30 PM MODULE 2
1. What is Philosophy? Do you have a personal philosophy in
life? If so, what is your personal philosophy? *Philosophy is the world view of the person (weltanschauung, in German) or the person’s philosophic view of the universe or reality in relation to the purpose of actions and events. (Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spiderman has his own personal philosophy- “with great power great responsibility”), I do have a philosophy in life, it is to live since we remain to stay alive because we want to make a lot of memories.
2. Differentiate ethics from morality.
*Ethics is more like a fixed rule of what should u do regarding the matter while Morality it depends on the person whether to do a good or bad thing. 3. Why is ethics called a normative science? Differentiate philosophy, art and science. Cite their similarities and striking differences. *Ethics is called normative science since it has a rule of what one should do based from an assumption, all of them uses ethics but philosophy is how one thinks, art have standards while science seeks the truth.
4. Is ethics a one-sized shoe that fits all or a customized outfit?
Explain your answer. *It is and not, yes because ethics is a requirement to a society that we lived in to live, but at the end of the day the final decision is up to the person’s or one’s perspective whether it’d be good or bad outcome.