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ETHICS

This document discusses several key concepts in ethics including the difference between moral and non-moral standards and different levels of moral dilemmas. It examines how culture and universal values influence moral behavior and character development. Several theories of ethics are analyzed, including those proposed by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Kant, and utilitarianism. The document also explores the relationship between reason, impartiality, and moral decision making. It concludes by discussing some contemporary ethical challenges introduced by globalization and the role of religion.

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ETHICS

This document discusses several key concepts in ethics including the difference between moral and non-moral standards and different levels of moral dilemmas. It examines how culture and universal values influence moral behavior and character development. Several theories of ethics are analyzed, including those proposed by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Kant, and utilitarianism. The document also explores the relationship between reason, impartiality, and moral decision making. It concludes by discussing some contemporary ethical challenges introduced by globalization and the role of religion.

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ETHICS

INTRODUCTION

BASIC CONCEPTS

⇒ Difference between moral and non-moral standards


⇒ What are moral dilemmas? Example of dilemmas
⇒ Three levels of moral dilemmas (individual, organizational, systemic)
⇒ Freedom as foundation of ethics
PART I
⇒ What is culture? How does it define moral behavior?
⇒ Cultural Relativism: definition, advantages of recognizing the differences, and
the dangers of the position (Why can’t all cultural practices be always correct?)
⇒ The Filipino Way (Strength and weaknesses of the Filipino moral character)
⇒ Universal Values (Why there are universal values?)
⇒ How is moral character developed? (Moral character as disposition; how is it
developed?)
⇒ Stages of moral development (The six stages of moral development)
⇒ Reason and impartiality as requirements for ethics (What is reason? What is
impartiality?)
PART II
⇒ Feelings – importance, origin, and disadvantages
⇒ The ethical requirement of reason and impartiality
⇒ The 7-step moral reasoning model
⇒ The difference between Reason and will
⇒ Moral theories and mental frames and why are they important (Moral theories
as frames of moral experiences)
PART III
⇒ Aristotle (a. Telos, b. Virtue as habit, c. Happiness as virtue)
⇒ St. Tomas: Natural Law (a. The natural and its tenets, b. Happiness as
constitutive of moral and cardinal virtues)
⇒ Kant and right theorists
Kant:
a. Good will
b. Categorical imperative
Different kinds of rights:
a. Legal
b. Moral
⇒ What is Legal is not always Moral
⇒ Utilitarianism
1. Origins and nature of theory
2. Business’s fascination with utilitarianism)
⇒ Justice and Fairness: Promoting the Common Good
1. Nature of the theory
2. Distributive justice
a. Egalitarian
b. Capitalist
c. Socialist
CONCLUSION
⇒ Globalization and its ethical challenges (the Moral Challenges of Globalization)
⇒ Millennials and Filinnials: Ethical challenges and responses
⇒ The religious response: The role of religion in ethics

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