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College of Arts and Sciences: Camarines Norte State College

This document contains a chapter summary on moral personhood and accountability from a college ethics course. It discusses how moral judgments involve moral persons as actors and recipients of actions. To determine morality of an action, one must first establish if those involved are moral persons. It defines key aspects of moral personhood and accountability. The document concludes with review questions asking students to apply these concepts in assessing accountability in various scenarios involving machines, social factors, and the Greek story of Oedipus Rex.

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College of Arts and Sciences: Camarines Norte State College

This document contains a chapter summary on moral personhood and accountability from a college ethics course. It discusses how moral judgments involve moral persons as actors and recipients of actions. To determine morality of an action, one must first establish if those involved are moral persons. It defines key aspects of moral personhood and accountability. The document concludes with review questions asking students to apply these concepts in assessing accountability in various scenarios involving machines, social factors, and the Greek story of Oedipus Rex.

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Republic of the Philippines

CAMARINES NORTE STATE COLLEGE


F. Pimentel Avenue, Brgy. 2, Daet, Camarines Norte – 4600, Philippines

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES


GENERAL EDUCATION 7: Ethics

Name: Dhanica D. Domdom Course/Year/Block: BPA-2A


UNIT 1: Ethics and The Moral Person
Chapter 2: Moral Personhood and Accountability
COURSE LEARNING ● To understand the role of humanities and arts in
OUTCOMES man’s attempt at fully realizing his end;
● Clarify misconceptions of art;
● Characterize the assumptions of arts: and
● Engage better with personal experiences of and
in art.
Reference Evangelista and Mabaquiao, Jr., Ethics: Theories and
Application, 20-37.

The actions that we judge to be either morally good or bad are those that
involve moral persons (whether human or non-human), both as the sources and
recipients of these actions. This implies that in judging the morality of an action, it is
first necessary to determine whether the doers and recipients of these actions are
moral persons. Given this, before we study the various ethical theories and their
applications, we must first clarify what it means to be a moral person. We, for
instance, need to be clear about the defining features of moral personhood and the
kinds of beings that can be regarded as moral persons. A significant part of being a
moral person is being morally accountable for one's actions; for when moral persons
act as doers of morally evaluable actions, they may deserve moral blame or praise
for these actions. A thorough understanding of the nature of moral personhood thus
requires an examination of its corollary concept of moral accountability. (Evangelista,
20.)

Let’s Review and Apply!


Based on the concepts we encountered from the readings, let us review it
again by answering these questions.

1. When a person does not appear to feel shame or guilt or show remorse for a
wrongdoing that he/she has freely and knowingly done, would it still a matter
to say that he/she is morally accountable for his/her wrongdoing? Explain

 As far as I concern, definitely yes. Not feeling guilty doesn't mean not being
guilty. We have a different moral standard that individual must possess
depending on what they believing for. It will shape and mold since the
beginning of their childhood, and most of the people think that we as a human
is morally good couldn’t be further from the truth but unfortunately most of us
aren’t like that, yet may be they have a valid reason why they’re choosing to
Republic of the Philippines
CAMARINES NORTE STATE COLLEGE
F. Pimentel Avenue, Brgy. 2, Daet, Camarines Norte – 4600, Philippines

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES


do those wrongdoing. By all means, regardless of what a person feelings,
shame, guilt or remorse it doesn’t imply only moral accountability as if it’s
moral dilemma that just happened naturally because of some situation that
would forces us to do it unintentionally. So except moral accountability it's
accountable for one's actions or words that one must be held. However, there
isn't something one does unwillingly or un-freely (especially when it comes to
morality). It's all about choices in life.

2. Do you think that intelligent machines can be held morally accountable for
their actions that injure humans? Explain.

 Of course not. Not an intelligence machines will control us or hurt us but


rather we have intelligence in machines now. What they lack is context,
appreciation of their environment, ability to gain and conclude knowledge, any
perspective of “common sense” and any of a dozen other things than allow
humans to be responsible and accountable for their actions. Those people
who creates, assemble, programming, and training are the ones who are fully
liable for the actions of their creations and the implications accompanied and
its impact. Until creation of machine is at a level comparable to human, it
really can’t be either responsible or accountable for critical decision making.
(Especially when the potential for real harm exists). Humans need to be in the
loop to exercise control and oversight. Accountability ultimately needs to be
with a person (or group of persons). Until we’re ready to recognize a non-
human sentience as a person with the associated rights and freedoms, it can’t
be considered responsible for its own actions.

3. Do factors beyond our control, like our social environment, biological make-
up. And the particular situations we find ourselves in (like being in the wrong
place at the wrong time), significantly affect our moral accountability for our
actions Explain.

 In my opinion yes. Sometimes even though we don’t want to do those


wrongdoings but because of the inevitable situations we tend to do. We can’t
blame those people who truly do those action as if it’s no choice but it doesn’t
mean that they are immoral. Based on the last discussion a person who acts
as the sources of morally evaluable actions, they are the moral agents, while
a person who actions are done to them while morally evaluable actions are
done to them it is because it is their moral right for such action to be done to
them. There’s a people who choose to be a moral agent and there’s a people
who aren’t have an ability to be a moral agent that’s why they are moral
recipient or patient.
Republic of the Philippines
CAMARINES NORTE STATE COLLEGE
F. Pimentel Avenue, Brgy. 2, Daet, Camarines Norte – 4600, Philippines

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES


4. Refer to the play Oedipus Rex (https://youtu.be/ocqNsxD6SwI)by Sophocles.
Do you find Oedipus morally accountable for killing his father and marrying his
mother? Defend your answer.
 Based on the video I watched about the story of Oedipus Rex. King Oedipus
Rex should not be held accountable for killing and marrying his mother
because he is morally innocent and did not take into account what he truly did
until the very end which lasted for adjudicating his fate. He prove that the
gods determined his fate for him because of his actions. Also, this play was
based around Greek mythology.

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