Ateneo de Zamboanga University

School of Liberal Arts

Philosophy Department
Learning Packet #2
ETHICS
nd
2 Session, SY 2020-2021

Learning Packet Activity Sheet No: 2 Date:

Topic: Grounds and Norms of Morality: Conscience Week: 2 Session: 1
Learning Intent
At the end of week 2, the students can:
1. Discuss conscience as the ground and norm of morality
2. Illustrate the judgment-event through the concept of conscience
3. Appreciate personal experience of conscience in crisis by judgment- event
I. Concept Notes
According to dictionary.com, conscience “is the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or
motives, impelling one toward right action. It is the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or
inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual. To have something on one’s conscience is to feel guilty
about have done something wrong.” – An excerpt from the text entitled “Conscience” of Fr. Salvador Wee, SJ

Read:
Conscience by Fr. Salvador Wee, SJ :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/144Dci0kkPtJSlWv4Nb-e1iclKPFO0p1x/view?usp=sharing

Week 2 Handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11lEm0R7wriQFowFckLX7g08lVjmvyKMM/view?

usp=sharing

II. Checking for Understanding

Instructions: Click the link provided below. Answer the activity provided on the website. After which,
connect to at least 2 of your classmates and discuss your answer. Share your final thoughts during our
synchronous session. Click link for the activity.
What I thought:
What (classmate’s name) thought:
What (classmate’s name) thought:

What we will share:

III. Analysis
Instructions: Click link for the essay and answer the question below. Share your answer during our
synchronous class meeting.

1. What can you say about the essay?

2. What are the important points highlighted in this essay?
3. Would you say that she is a fully functioning person? Why or why not?

IV. Integration
Instructions: Reflection Paper. Read and answer the question. Submit your work in our e-class.
1. Have you encountered instances/situations when you did not follow your Conscience?
2. How did you reconcile these incongruences that you have experienced?

In our synchronous class meeting, I want to be clarified about…__________________________________

V. Independent Practice
Describe your Conscience through Poem/Song/Drawing/Essay

References:
Reyes, R.C. (1989). Ground and norm of morality. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press pages 91.-
102
Chapter 39 Activity: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide. (2014.)https://www.smp.org/dynamicmedia/files
/845d7eff90db149801b3fa75141649a6/TX003611-2-handout-39b-
Let_Your_Conscience_Be_Your_Guide.pdf