What is Ethics?

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Ethics was taken from the Greek word

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ethos

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ethos means

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customs, usage, characteristic

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The word ethics itself is also derived from another
Greek work

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Ethike

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Ethike means

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Morals

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From the beginnings of Ancient Greece, city states were established, and ______were created to organize society.

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legal codes

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These early legal codes _____ in which society should operate.

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outlined the ways

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two (2) schools of thoughts within the
Ethics of Ancient Greece.

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Sophist and Absolutist

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difference of sophist and absolutist

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Sophists: Believed human nature and morality differ from society to society, and there are no universal moral truths
Plato: Supported an absolutist moral framework, believing morality is universal and absolute

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“differ from society to society”
“no universal moral truths”

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sophist (pre-socratic era)

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is a mental-set, disposition or values.

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Ethics

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ethics as a science

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it deals with the morality
(rightness or wrongness) of the human act.

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ethics as a discipline

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it is meant for the exercise of
human conduct, both ethical and
unethical.

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ethics as a philosophical study

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it guides the
intellect in discerning concrete human
conduct.

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importance of ethics

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shaping the individual behaviors
within a society

Act as a self-governing system to keep human self-interest and the good of society at equilibrium because the eyes of the law are not always available

Society might fall into chaos if we accept that each of us could pick and choose what the right thing to do is.

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a person from the very fact of existence,
regardless of age, skills, or functions
performed

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human being

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is a conscious and free exercise of one’s
faculties, therefore, conscious and free.

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human act

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These are actions that require a person to
make a choice, use utmost responsibility,
and use his/her conscience.

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human act

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human acts could either be

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good or bad

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resides in the intellect and the
mindfulness of what the moral agent is
doing.

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knowledge

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quality of the freewill by which
one can choose between one or more
alternatives.

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freedom

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quality of human act
whereby any commission or omission of an act is a result of the knowledge which an agent has of the end.

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Voluntariness

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Is an act beyond the control of one’s will.

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act of human

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These are processes that do not require a
decision-making action from a person. They happen naturally in the body, without a person’s being conscious about them.

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act of human

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Acts of Human is neither

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right or wrong.

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The very substance of the act
“What was performed by the agent?”

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The Object of the Act

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Purpose for which a human agent does the act.
“What specifically does the agent want?”

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Motive of the Agent

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the intended object of the act

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what (the circumstances)

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personal intention of the agent

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why (the circumstances)

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tools or procedure used

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by what means (the circumstances)

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modes of doing the act

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how (the circumstances)

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the time the act was performed

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when (the circumstances)

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the spatial setting where the act is
done

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where (the circumstances)

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the person who does/receive

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who (the circumstances)

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HUMAN ACT can be classified:

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good action
bad action

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ACT OF MAN is considered as:

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AMORAL or INDEFERRENT ACTION