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Synthesis:: Making Informed Decisions
Synthesis:: Making Informed Decisions
SYNTHESIS:
MAKING INFORMED
DECISIONS
Prepared By:
Mae-Ann R. Sarol
BSED ENGLISH 1
Chapter Objectives
ETHICS
Physical
Personal Societal Environme
{both local
local and
and global}
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INTRODUCTION
We have been introduced to four major ethical theories
or frameworks ; utilitarianism, natural law ethics, Kantian
deontology, and virtue ethics. None of them is definitive nor
final.
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INTRODUCTION
The latter part of the
twentieth century gave
birth to an awareness
among many people that
“community” does not only
refer to the human
groups that one belongs
to, but also refers to the
non-human natural world
that serves as home and
source of nurturance for
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all beings.
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The Moral Agent
and Contexts
The Moral Agent and Contexts
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Reyes means that one’s identity, who one is, is a product of many forces and
events that happened outside of one’s choice. He identifies four cross-
points:
- You are a - One did not choose - “who one is” is - The events
member of the her own parents, and yet shaped by one’s that one’s
species Homo her personality, society. The term people has
Sapiens and character traits and her “society” here pertains undergone. In
therefore possess overall way of doing to all the elements of short, one’s
the capacities and things and thinking about the human groups – people’s
limitations things have all been as supposed to the history shapes
endemic to shaped by the character natural environment – “who one is”
human of her parents and how that one is a member right now.
everywhere. they brought her up. of culture.
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The Moral agent and Contexts
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