FINALS rebyuwer Flashcards
Includes cultural mannerisms, religion, politics, laws, and social aspirations of a group of people
ETHOS
- able to distinguish between good and evil, right or wrong, moral or immoral.
- obligation to do what is good
and to avoid what is evil. - his actions, expecting reward or
punishments for them.
ETHOS OF MAN AS MAN
- science of the morality of human acts
- study of human motivation
ETHICS
Concerns the morality of human acts
Motives
Deals with deliberate and
free human activity and how one should act.
Human Conduct
- knowingly and freely
- deliberate or intentional actions or
voluntary actions - “acts of man”
which are instinctive and involuntary
HUMAN ACTS
when they agree with the dictates of reason.
Good
when they do not agree with the dictates of divine and human reason
Evil
quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad, or indifferent.
MORALITY
Human acts reveal the thoughts and inclinations of a person doing them.
NORM OF MORALITY
A person who has the habit or inclination to do
good is said to be
virtuous
one who has the habit of doing wrong is
vicious
WHAT IS HUMAN REASON?
acts in a word of conscience
The Eternal Law
Divine Reason
The Conscience
Human Reason
then doing of an act which is contrary to good
conscience
Immorality
everything which is done contrary to justice, or
good morals.
MORAL TURPITUDE
“the conduct, which is willful, flagrant (blatant,
unashamed or shameless)
IMMORAL CONDUCT
what a person really is, and not what he
or other people think he is.
- not a subjective term, but one which
corresponds to objective reality
Moral character
- If there are no sets of governing rules to limit the parameter and tame the exercise of the profession.
What do you think
will happen?
- Anarchic (lawless, chaotic, disordered
- Riotous (violent)
- Lawbreaking
- Defiant or disobedient (insolent)
- Aggressive (hostile or antagonistic)
1992 Code of Ethics of Medical Technologist under the Presidency of
Mrs. Marilyn Atienza
Revised Medical Technology Code of Ethics of March 07, 1997, under the presidency of
Norma N. Chang
branch of moral science that treats the duties a
medical technologist owes to his patient, his colleagues in the profession and in the public
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ETHICS
“healing” but also “holiness and
wholeness.”
- denotes completeness
HEALTH
Defined in terms of standard physiological parameters.
HEALTH IN MEDICINE
Health is better as
- At the biological and physiological levels, social and spiritual needs
optional functioning.
State of complete physical, mental, and social
being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Health
Illness, Sickness, Complaint
Subjective terms
Disease, Malady, ailment disorder
Objective terms
diseases as separate entities
- devils, contagious, morbid matters, bacteria, genetic diseases, neuroses, psychoses
ONTOLOGICAL
- breakdown of the internal harmony
- hyperfunctioning or hypofunctioning of an organ.
PHYSIOLOGICAL
Branch of ethics which deals directly with the problems of life and dying, of health and healing.
BIOETHICS
Division of Ethics that relates to human life as the Ethics of the life science and health care, both delivery and research.
- more limited as it continues itself
to the moral behavior in relation to health.
HEALTH ETHICS
- division of Ethics that relates to professional behavior
- practice of a profession cannot be regulated entirely by legislation.
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
- the law is silent or inadequate.
CODE OF ETHICS
Indispensable knowledge.
Ethics
True measure of what man ought to be
MORAL INTEGRITY
“Forgetting that man’s greatness, perfection, and happiness, his whole meaning in fact, consist in transcending the commonly accepted human good.”
Jacques Leclercq
- Foundation of every human society
- standard of behavior.
MORALITY
As a Human Person, he must be respected regardlessof:
o Nature of Health
o Problem
o Social Status
o Competence
o Post Actions
The human being is not definable merely as a Static Entity. But rather a
Dynamic System of Needs
Actions man performs knowingly, freely, and
voluntarily or acts which proceed from the
deliberate free will of man
- Man knows what he is doing and
freely chooses to do what he does
HUMAN ACTS
o Actions which happen in man.
o They are Instinctive.
▪ Not within the control of the will.
ACTS OF MAN
What it is about and what it means.
Must be performed by a Conscious Agent
KNOWLEDGE
To do or to leave it undone without coercion or
constraint.
- Implies Voluntariness.
FREEDOM
- Must be performed by an agent Who Decides Willfully to Perform the Act.
WILLINGFULLNESS
Proximate Norm of Morality
Determine what ought to be done in a given
situation
“Trial of Oneself”
CONSCIENCE
A reproving conscience is called a
“Guilty Conscience.”
Judges what is good as good and what is evil
as evil
i. Tells that getting the property of
another without consent is stealing.
ii. Judges that we ought to pay our
debts
CORRECT OR TRUE CONSCIENCE
Judges incorrectly that what is good as evil
and what is evil is good
. It is an erroneous conscience which
tells the husband to have a mistress.
ERRONEOUS OR FALSE CONSCIENCE
KINDS OF ERRONEOUS CONSCIENCE
INCULPABLE CONSCIENCE and CULPABLE CONSCIENCE
- Error is not willfully
intended. - Ex: A person who is
unaware of it, pays for the
grocery with bogus money.
a. Ignorance of the
Fact.
INCULPABLE CONSCIENCE
- Error is due to neglect, or
malice. - Ex: A person who believes
that cheating is good since it
helps us pass the exam and
everybody does it anyway
CULPABLE CONSCIENCE
→ Voluntary Error
a. Voluntary at the
part of the person
Culpable
→ Involuntary
Error
a. Honest Mistake
Inculpable
Subjective assurance of lawfulness or
unlawfulness of a certain act.
i. Implies that the person is sure of his
decision.
ii. Ex: It is possible for a policeman to
be sure that killing the suspect is the
best alternative under the principle of
self-defense, whereas such killing is
in fact unnecessary
CERTAIN CONSCIENCE
a. Vacillating Conscience.
b. Unable to form a definite on a certain action.
c. Must first be allowed to settle its doubts before an action is performed.
DOUBTFUL CONSCIENCE
a. Rigorous Conscience
b. Extremely afraid of committing evil.
SCRUPULOUS CONSCIENCE
a. Refuses to be bothered about the distinction
of good and evil.
b. Justify the impulse of “bahala na.”
i. On matters of morals are acting with
a lax conscience.
LAX CONSCIENCE