CHAPTER 5: Moral Agent and Context Flashcards

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___ is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness

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morality

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Stated that morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but hoe we may make ourselves worthy of happiness

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Immanuel Kant

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personhood requires

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moral agency

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the capacity to make moral decisions based on the perception of right and
wrong.

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moral agency

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ability to judge between good and bad, moral and immoral

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moral agency

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is a being who is conscious of the
concepts of right and wrong.

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moral agent

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(2) are important facets of
human life, but they do not necessarily translate into genuine ethical or moral
value.

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Aesthetic consideration
Questions of etiquette

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also reminds us that the distinctions are not always easy to neither
identify nor explain.

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Reason

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Reason also reminds us that the ___ are not always easy to neither
identify nor explain.

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distinctions

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can be frowned upon by members of one human society or another
but need not merit the severest of punishments or penalty.

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Mistake

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is clearly concerned with the right way to act in relation to other human
beings and toward self.

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Ethics

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The second level where moral valuation takes place is

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societal.

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ones immediate community or the whole
global village defined as the interconnection of the different nations of the world.

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society

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is a broad term it may include the beliefs and practices a certain group of people considered valuable

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Culture

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(music, literature, arts and performance)

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art

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(injunctions against taboo practices)

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laws

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(e.g. scientific, technological and medical
beliefs and practices at a given point in time)

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fields of knowledge

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Culture can extend to such reals as (4)

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arts
laws
fields of knowledge
customs of a community

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a SIS celebration of Philippine Culture, Art, History and Cuisine

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Pinoy Fiesta

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serves to guide one through the potentially confusing thicket of an individual’s
interaction wither her wider world of social roles.

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Ethics

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21
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The one who is tasked to think about what is right and why it is so and so to choose
and do so, is

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individual human.

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Who one is in the most fundamental sense is another major topic in the act of

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philosophizing

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know thyself

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Epimeleia he auto

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Greeks has a famous saying for it: “Epimeleia he auto” usually translated into English as

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know thyself

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“know thyself”. In response to this age-old philosophical challenge the Filipino
philosopher

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RAMON C. REYES

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writing in his essay Man and
Historical Action explained the “who he is” is a cross point.

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RAMON C. REYES

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RAMON C. REYES (1935-2014) writing in his essay ___________ explained the “who he is” is a cross point.

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Man and Historical Action

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one’s identity, who one is or who I am, is product of many forces and events that
haened outside of one choosing

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Man and Historical Action

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Reyes identifies four cross points the

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physical
interpersonal
social
historical.

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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.

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Physical events

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31
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Inherited by genetic material of both biological parents.

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physical event

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32
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All of these are given they have happened or are still happening whether you
want it or not.

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physical event

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33
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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.

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physical event

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Filipinos born in archipelago , tropical climate, with specific flora and fauna
which shape human life in this country to a profound degree

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physical event

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35
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Individual is also a product of an interpersonal cross point of many events and factors outside of ones choosing.

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physical eveny

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Individual is also a product of an _________ of many events and factors outside of ones choosing.

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interpersonal cross point

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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

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who one is

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38
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in its varied aspects is included here.

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“Culture”

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39
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The fourth cross point Reyes names is the ___ which is simply the events
that one’s people has undergone.

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historical

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40
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events that one’s people has undergone.

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historical

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41
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also a project for one’s self.

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WHO ONE IS

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42
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dictates what is right or wrong for an individual.

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Culture

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43
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Culture dictates what is right or wrong for an individual. As people saying
when in Rome do as the Romans do by

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ST. AMBROSE

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44
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“Americans are ___; Filpinos
are ___,”

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individualistic
communal

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45
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American Philosopher who provided a clear argument against the validity of cultural relativism.

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JAMES RACHELS

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46
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  • 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.
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CULTURAL RELATIVISM

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the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context

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CULTURAL RELATIVISM

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48
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position that claims that there is
no such thing as objective truth in the realm of morality.

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CULTURAL RELATIVISM

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49
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___defines cultural relativism as the position that claims that there is
no such thing as objective truth in the realm of morality.

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Rachels

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50
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different cultures have different moral codes, then there is no one correct moral code that all cultures must follow.

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CULTURAL RELATIVISM

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51
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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

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correct.

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52
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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.

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Apertheid

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53
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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

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women’s rights and children’s rights

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54
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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.

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cultural relativism
criticize
beliefs and practices

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55
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four of largest religious groups in
the world at present based on
population

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Christianity
Islam,
Christianity,
Hinduism,
Buddhism

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56
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The Philippines is predominantly ___, yet many other religions continue to flourish in the ___

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Roman Catholic

archipelago

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57
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is relative to the individuals particular situation
(implying no objective and universal truth about the situatedness of the
reader.

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Religious teachings

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58
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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.

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moral agent

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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.

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justifies
ought to do

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60
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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?

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Plato

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61
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“Philosophers have modified this question into a ___: when something is “___,” is it because it is good in itself and that
is why God commands it, or is it good because God simply say so.

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moral version
morally good

62
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American moral psychologist __(1927-1987) who theorized the moral development happens in six stages
which he divided into three levels.

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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Lawrence Kohlberg
-six stages which he divided into three levels.

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a. FIRST STAGE – PRE-CONVENTIONAL
1. Obedience Vs. Avoidance and Punishment
2. Reasoning and learns to act what she thinks (Naively Egoistical)
b. SECOND STAGE CONVENTIONAL
3. Good boy and Good Girl Orientation
4. Law and Social Order
c. POST CONVENTIONAL
5. Legalistic Social Contract
6. Universal ethical Principles

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a. FIRST STAGE –__ in this stage there is two
level

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PRE-CONVENTIONAL

65
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it corresponds to how infants and young children think

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Obedience Vs. Avoidance and Punishment

66
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_____ of punishments to a young child’s mind.

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Obedience vs avoidance

67
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Reasoning is centred on the consequences of action.

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Obedience Vs. Avoidance and Punishment

68
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Reasoning and learns to act what she thinks

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Naively Egoistical

69
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If an action is good they can avoid punishment ; if its bad it
lead to punishment

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Naively Egoistical

70
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Pleasure and Punishment

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Naively Egoistical

71
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In this age in which older
children, adolescent and young adults learn to conform to the expectation
of the society.

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CONVENTIONAL

72
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One follows conventions of her group.

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Good boy and Good Girl Orientation

73
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Begins to act according to what the larger group she belongs to expects of her.

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Good boy and Good Girl Orientation

74
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The general tendency at this age is to conform fist to the values of ones immediate group , such as her family playmates or later on barkada.

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Good boy and Good Girl Orientation

75
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When a person relizes that following the dictates od her society is not just good for herself but more importantly it is necessary
for the existence of society itself.

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Law and Social Order

76
Q

The individual at this stage values most the laws, rules, and regulation of her society and thus her moral reasoning is shaped
by dutifulness to the external standards set by society.

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Law and Social Order

77
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in this stage is divided into two stages
represents individual realization that the ethical principles she has
rationally arrived at take precedence over even the rules or conventions
that her society dictates.

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POST CONVENTIONAL

78
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Namely agreement that rational agents have arrived at whether explicitly
or implicitly in order to serve what can be considered the common good
are what one ought to honor and follow.

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Legalistic Social Contract

79
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This notion of common good is conventional in the sense that the moral
agent binds herself to what this theoretical community of rational agents
has identified as morally desirable, whether the agent herself will benefit
from doing so or not.

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Legalistic Social Contract

80
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What is good or right is what honours the social contract; what contradicts it is bad.

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Legalistic Social Contract

81
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Perform action based on universal ethical principles that one has
determined by herself.

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Universal ethical Principles

82
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One realizes that all conventions (laws,
rules and regulations) of society are only correct if they are based on these universal ethical principles.

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Universal ethical Principles

83
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Full maturity post conventional thinking since this stage recognizes that in the end the question of what one ought to do
goes back to the individual moral agent and her own rationality.

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Universal ethical Principles

84
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have long been derided by purely rationalistic perspective as
having no place in properly executed moral decision.

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Emotions or feelings

85
Q

neither robot nor computer.

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moral agent

86
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some emotion or feelings can derail one from a clear minded decision in an ethical situation, it is also not possible that human
choice can be purged of all feelings

A

moral agent

87
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moral virtue goes beyond the mere act of intellectual identifying the right thing to do.

A

Aristotle

88
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it is the condition of ones character
by which the agent is able to manage her emotions or feelings

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moral virtue

89
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does not say “Remove all feelings”

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Aristotle

90
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popular Filipino saying, the mouth says
one thing but the heart drives you to do another thing.

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Tulak ng bibig kabig ng dibdib

91
Q

The___ _____ ____ then as a supposedly “____” moral decision
maker is an unrealistic idea.

A

responsible moral agent
dispassionate

92
Q

do not necessarily detract
from making an informed moral decision.

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passions or feelings

93
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Moral Deliberation- rational deliberations (3 steps)

A

FIRST STEP- determine the level of involvement in the case at hand
SECOND STEP-make sure of the facts
THIRD STEP- identify all the people who may potentially be affected by
the application of a moral situation or by our concrete choice of action.

94
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  • determine the level of involvement in the case at hand
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FIRST STEP

95
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Being _______ specifically refers to the
latter situation we must therefore identify which activity we are engaged in,
whether we are making a judgement on a case that we are not involved.

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moral agent

96
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  • after ascertaining our involvement in the potential moral
    situation, we then need to make sure of the facts.
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SECOND STEP

97
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The first fact to establish
is whether we are faced with a moral situation or not.

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second step

98
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The first fact to establish is whether we are faced with a ____ or not.

A

moral situation

99
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  • identify all the people who may potentially be affected by
    the application of a moral situation or by our concrete choice of action.
A

third step

100
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THIRD STEP- identify all the people who may potentially be affected by
the application of a moral situation or by our concrete choice of action. These people are called the

A

stakeholders

101
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Identifying these ____ forces us to give consideration to people aside from
ourselves.

A

stakeholders

102
Q

After establishing the facts and identifying the stakeholders and their concerns in the
matter, we must now identify the _____at hand.

A

ethical issue

103
Q

These are several types of ethical problems or issues.

A

1- clarify if the action is morally right or wrong
2- determining is it can be identified with a generally accepted ethical or unethical action.
3- to presence of an ethical dilemma.

104
Q

These are several types of ethical problems or issues.

a. The first one is a situation in which we need to clarify whether a certain action
is _______ or _____

A

morally right or wrong

105
Q

These are several types of ethical problems or issues.

b. The second one involves determining whether a particular action in question
can be identified with a generally accepted ____ or ___

A

ethical or unethical action

106
Q

These are several types of ethical problems or issues.

c. _____ are ethical situations in which there are competing values that seem to have equal worth. The problem can be concerned either with a choice between two competing ____ or between two ____

A

Dilemma

moral goods
evils

107
Q

The final step of course is for the individual to make her __ or __

A

ethical conclusion or decision

108
Q

often very difficult enough to make and for so many different reason.

A

Real ethical decisions

109
Q

The _______, however must forge on realizing full well that cultivating ones capacity for mature moral choice is continuously journey in her life.

A

responsible moral individual

110
Q

A ____ is always a human being whose intellect remains finite and whose passions remain dynamic and who is always placed in situations that are unique.

A

moral individual

111
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  • Puts every single stakeholders at par with everyone else, with no one being worth more than any other.
A

UTILITARIANISM

112
Q

Rich or poor, man or woman, young or old everyone has a much worth as anyone else, values the “common good” compare to any other ethical frameworks we have covered.

A

UTILITARIANISM

113
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-puts more emphasis on the supposed objective, universal
nature of what is to be considered morally good, basing its reasoning on the
theorized existence of a “human nature”.

A

NATURAL LAW

114
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This theory has the advantage of
both objectivity and a kind of intuitiveness.

A

NATURAL LAW

115
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The latter pertains to the
assumption that whatever is right is what feels right, that is.

A

NATURAL LAW

116
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  • put the premium on rational will, freed from all other consideration as the only human capacity that can determine ones
    moral duty.
A

KANTIAN DEONTOLOGY

117
Q

focus on ones autonomy as constituted of what one can consider as moral law that is free from all other ends and inclinations
including pain and pleasure as well as conformity to the rules of the group.

A

KANTIAN DEONTOLOGY

118
Q

In the realm of the self, as noted earlier, one has to pay attention not just on how deals with oneself, but also on how one interacts with other individuals in personal
relations.

A

INDIVIDUAL/SELF

119
Q

One may respond to the demand for an ethically responsible “care for the
self” by making full use of the four ethical theories or frameworks.

A

INDIVIDUAL/SELF

120
Q

___, though seemingly a hedonistic
theory given its emphasis on maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain, elevates the
human element above the animalistic and above the merely selfish.

A

JOHN STUART MILLS UTILITARIANISM

121
Q

Mill builds on the earlier version of utilitarianism, the one espoused by
___, which first posited that what makes an action good is that it brings about the greatest happiness for the greatest number______

A

JEREMY BENTHAM
greatest happiness for the greatest number.

122
Q

states that as its first natural inclination the innate
tendency that all human beings share with all other existing things; namely the natural
propensity to maintain oneself in one’s existence.

A

Natural law theory

123
Q

Natural is an ____of ethics that is not rooted in duty or externally imposed laws

A

absolute theory

124
Q

Natural law is found in our

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human nature

125
Q

Any action therefore that sustains and cultivates ones biological or physical existence is to be deemed good while all
action lead to destruction of ones existence is to be called bad or evil.

A

natural law theory

126
Q

Healthy life and that one avoids all things that may hurt one or cause on harm.

A

natural law theory

127
Q

Part of human nature is to promote the truth and cultivate a harmonious life in
the society with other humans.

A

natural law theory

128
Q

To live peaceful social life is part of ones responsibility.

A

natural law theory

129
Q

Aquinas teaches that a person cannot remain within her _____
since doing so might lead her to harm herself to dispense with the truth or to
destroy harmony in her community.

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own selfish desires

130
Q

Celebrates the rational faculty of the moral agent, which sets it above merely
sentient beings.

A

KANTS DEONTOLOGY

131
Q

challenge the moral agent to
think beyond her own predilections and desires and to instead consider what
everyone ought to do.

A

Kant principle of universability

132
Q

His principle of humanity as end in itself teaches one to always treat humanity
whether in her own self or in any other individual, as the end or goal of all
human actions and never merely as the means.

A

KANTS DEONTOLOGY

133
Q

does beyond simply telling people not use others as instruments. There is
nothing intrinsically wrong with using a human being as a means or a tool for
ones own purposes because human interaction is not possible without that
happening.

A

KANTS DEONTOLOGY

134
Q

teaches us that no one else can tell her what she ought to do in a particular situation; the highest authority is neither the king nor the general nor the pope.

A

Kant principle of autonomy

135
Q

The highest authority that which is self
legislating in the realm of moral law, is none other than the _____ individual
herself.

A

rational

136
Q

One must always treat humanity, whether in oneself or in any other , always as
end in itself,”

A

KANTS DEONTOLOGY

137
Q

Ones ethical or moral responsibility to herself is one of

A

self cultivation.

138
Q

Ones ethical or moral responsibility to herself is one of self cultivation.

A

ARISTOTLE VIRTUE OF ETHICS

139
Q

____ is quite forgiving when it comes to individual actions, knowing full
well the difficulty of “______” in a given moral situation.

A

Aristotle

hitting the mark

140
Q

____
One may make mistakes from time to time but in the end the important
question is whether th person is learned from such mistakes, then the person
has not become ______

A

ARISTOTLE VIRTUE OF ETHICS

EUDAIMON or a happy (that is flourishing)

141
Q

____-Finally this theory teaches us one must always find and act on the mesotes,
whether in treating oneself or any other human beings. This mesotes points to
the complexity of knowing what must be done in a specific moral situation.

A

ARISTOTLE VIRTUE OF ETHICS

142
Q

Philippines is made up of many ____, each with its own possibly unique culture and set of traditions.

A

ethno linguistic groups

143
Q

___ will always push the greatest happiness principle as the
prime determinant of what can be considered as good action, whether in the
personal sphere or in the societal realm.

A

Mills utilitarian

144
Q

___on the other hand in his ___ has a clear
conception of the principles that should guide the individual in her actions that
affect her larger society, human life , the care and education of children and
promotion of truth, and harmonious social living.

A

Thomas Aquianas
natural law theory

145
Q

____ arues for the use of the principles of universalizability and of
humanity as end Itself to form a persons autonomous notion of what she ought
to do. These principles an and should apply directly to the construction of
ethical duty in ones social life.

A

Immanuel Kant

146
Q

___ prescribe ___ as the guide of all the actions that a person has to
take even in her dealing with the larger community of people, such as
liberality, justice, magnificence, friendliness and rightful indignation suggest
that they are socially oriented.

A

Aristotle
mesotes

147
Q

In case of ___ some scholars point out that his ____ focuses on the sovereignty of pleasures and pains in human decision
making should extend into other creatures that can experience pleasure and
pains; namely, animals.

A

UTILITARIANISM
hedonistic doctrine

148
Q

Animals themselves cannot become moral agents because they do not seem to
have reason and free will.

A

NON-HUMAN ENVIRONMENT

149
Q

Some would therefore argue that since the greatest happiness principles cover
the greatest number of creatures that experience pleasure and pain, then that
number should include animals.

A

NON-HUMAN ENVIRONMENT

150
Q

Therefore though only humans can make
moral decisions, animal ethics, proponents argue that humans should always
take into account the potential pleasure or pain that they may inflict on
animals.

A

NON-HUMAN ENVIRONMENT

151
Q

focused on the innate dignity of the human
being as possessing reason , I can be argued that one cannot possibly
universalize maxims that in the end will lead to an untenable social existence.

A

KANTIAN DEONTOLOGY

152
Q

may not necessarily talk about the physical
environment and human moral responsibility to it as such but one can try to infer from his philosophy that certain actions should be avoided because they
do not produce a harmonious peaceful society.

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THOMAS AQUINAS