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CENTER FOR INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE

San Jose, Cebu City
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Subject Code :
Subject Title: Ethics
X Lecture Laboratory Duration :

Subject Description:
Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society , and in
interaction with the environment and other shared resources. (CHED Memorandum Order No. 20 s 2013)

Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an individual originally picks up from the
community.

Aside from discussing the context and principles of ethical behavior it also teaches students to make moral
decisions by using dominant frameworks and by applying a seven-step moral reasoning to analyze and solve
moral dilemmas.

The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral reasoning:
(1) Agent, including context – cultural, communal, and environmental
(2) Act and
(3) Reason or Framework (for the act)

This course includes the mandatory topic on taxation.

Subject Oultine:

1 Natural Inclination of Man to Seek Happiness

2 The Science of Ethics and the Life of Man
3 Nature of
4 Morality
Sources of Morality
5 Human Acts and Morality
6 Voluntariness of Human Acts
7 Modifiers of Human Acts
8 Ignorance
9 Double Effect

Minimum Level of Competence

At the end of the subject, students can:
a. Differentiate between moral and non-moral problems
b. Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of human existence
c. Explain the influence of Filipino culture on the way students look at moral experiences and solve
moral dilemmas
d. Describe the elements of moral development and moral experience
e. Use ethical frameworks or principles to analyze moral experiences

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f. Make sound ethical judgments based on principles, facts, and the stakeholders affected
g. Develop sensitivity to the common good
h. Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the
person, society, and in interaction with the environment and other shared resources.

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ETHICS

48 hours

of the person, society , and in

andum Order No. 20 s 2013)

nally picks up from the

aches students to make moral

reasoning to analyze and solve

reasoning:

of human existence
moral experiences and solve

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akeholders affected

dern society at the level of the

hared resources.

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