CHAPTER 5: Moral Agent and Context Flashcards
___ is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
morality
Stated that morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but hoe we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
Immanuel Kant
personhood requires
moral agency
the capacity to make moral decisions based on the perception of right and
wrong.
moral agency
ability to judge between good and bad, moral and immoral
moral agency
is a being who is conscious of the
concepts of right and wrong.
moral agent
(2) are important facets of
human life, but they do not necessarily translate into genuine ethical or moral
value.
Aesthetic consideration
Questions of etiquette
also reminds us that the distinctions are not always easy to neither
identify nor explain.
Reason
Reason also reminds us that the ___ are not always easy to neither
identify nor explain.
distinctions
can be frowned upon by members of one human society or another
but need not merit the severest of punishments or penalty.
Mistake
is clearly concerned with the right way to act in relation to other human
beings and toward self.
Ethics
The second level where moral valuation takes place is
societal.
ones immediate community or the whole
global village defined as the interconnection of the different nations of the world.
society
is a broad term it may include the beliefs and practices a certain group of people considered valuable
Culture
(music, literature, arts and performance)
art
(injunctions against taboo practices)
laws
(e.g. scientific, technological and medical
beliefs and practices at a given point in time)
fields of knowledge
Culture can extend to such reals as (4)
arts
laws
fields of knowledge
customs of a community
a SIS celebration of Philippine Culture, Art, History and Cuisine
Pinoy Fiesta
serves to guide one through the potentially confusing thicket of an individual’s
interaction wither her wider world of social roles.
Ethics
The one who is tasked to think about what is right and why it is so and so to choose
and do so, is
individual human.
Who one is in the most fundamental sense is another major topic in the act of
philosophizing
know thyself
Epimeleia he auto
Greeks has a famous saying for it: “Epimeleia he auto” usually translated into English as
know thyself
“know thyself”. In response to this age-old philosophical challenge the Filipino
philosopher
RAMON C. REYES
writing in his essay Man and
Historical Action explained the “who he is” is a cross point.
RAMON C. REYES
RAMON C. REYES (1935-2014) writing in his essay ___________ explained the “who he is” is a cross point.
Man and Historical Action
one’s identity, who one is or who I am, is product of many forces and events that
haened outside of one choosing
Man and Historical Action
Reyes identifies four cross points the
physical
interpersonal
social
historical.
Past material factors that one did not have the choice in. You are member of the species Homo Sapiens and therefore possess the capacities and limitation
endemic to human being everywhere.
Physical events
Inherited by genetic material of both biological parents.
physical event
All of these are given they have happened or are still happening whether you
want it or not.
physical event
You did not choose to be a human being nor to have this particular set of
biological parents nor to be born in and grow up in such physical environment.
physical event
Filipinos born in archipelago , tropical climate, with specific flora and fauna
which shape human life in this country to a profound degree
physical event
Individual is also a product of an interpersonal cross point of many events and factors outside of ones choosing.
physical eveny
Individual is also a product of an _________ of many events and factors outside of ones choosing.
interpersonal cross point
A third cross point for Reyes is the societal “___” is shaped by ones society. The term society here pertains to all the elements of the human groups
who one is
in its varied aspects is included here.
“Culture”
The fourth cross point Reyes names is the ___ which is simply the events
that one’s people has undergone.
historical
events that one’s people has undergone.
historical
also a project for one’s self.
WHO ONE IS
dictates what is right or wrong for an individual.
Culture
Culture dictates what is right or wrong for an individual. As people saying
when in Rome do as the Romans do by
ST. AMBROSE
“Americans are ___; Filpinos
are ___,”
individualistic
communal
American Philosopher who provided a clear argument against the validity of cultural relativism.
JAMES RACHELS
- the idea that a person beliefs, values and
practices should be understood based on that persons own culture rather than
be judged against the criteria of another.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
position that claims that there is
no such thing as objective truth in the realm of morality.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
___defines cultural relativism as the position that claims that there is
no such thing as objective truth in the realm of morality.
Rachels
different cultures have different moral codes, then there is no one correct moral code that all cultures must follow.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
FIRST if cultural relativism was correct, then one cannot even criticize the practices or beliefs of another culture anymore as long as the culture thinks that what is doing is
correct.
SECOND if cultural relativism was correct then one cannot even
criticize the practices or beliefs of ones culture. If that is the case, the
black South African citizen under the system of ____ a policy of
racial segregation that privileges the dominant race in the society,
could not criticize that official state position.
Apertheid
THIRD if cultural relativism was correct then one cannot even accept
that moral progress can happen. If that is the case then the fact that
many societies now recognize ___ and __
does not necessarily represent a better a situation than before when we
societies refused to recognize that they have rights
women’s rights and children’s rights
Rachel’s ends his article on ___ by nothing that someone can recognize and respect cultural differences and still maintain the right to ___ ___ and ___ that she thinks are wrong, if she performs proper rational deliberation.
cultural relativism
criticize
beliefs and practices
four of largest religious groups in
the world at present based on
population
Christianity
Islam,
Christianity,
Hinduism,
Buddhism
The Philippines is predominantly ___, yet many other religions continue to flourish in the ___
Roman Catholic
archipelago
is relative to the individuals particular situation
(implying no objective and universal truth about the situatedness of the
reader.
Religious teachings
Religious teachings - This implies that the ___ in question must still, In full
responsibility, challenge herself to understand using her own powers of
rationality, but with full recognition on her own situatedness and what is religious authorities claim their religion teaches.
moral agent
Second one must determine what__ the claim of a particular religious teaching when it commands its followers on what they “__” whether in general or in specific situations.
justifies
ought to do
philosophical question in his dialogue Euthyphro which was mentioned in
an earlier chapter: is the pious loved by the gods because it is loved by the gods?
Plato