Grant Howell Blaine G.

Mamaoag

BS Psychology 2-2

1. Cite at least 3 personal experiences when you were able to apply the principle of
utilitarianism and explain why you said so.?

I’m on my way to the computer shop to play DOTA, when I saw three poor children asking for
money. Instead of wasting my money playing games I chose to bought some foods for the
children. It is better to spend my money to those children rather for my entertainment.

On our math subject we needed ¼ sheet paper for the quiz, I took my 1 whole sheet paper and
divided into four. I chose to take my one whole paper than the one-fourth to share to others.

2. What does Buddhism recommend for an individual to liberate himself from suffering?

The Buddha taught that the way to extinguish desire, which causes suffering, is to liberate
oneself from attachment. This is the third Noble Truth - the possibility of liberation.

The Buddha was a living example that this is possible in a human lifetime. "Estrangement" here
means disenchantment: a Buddhist aims to know sense conditions clearly as they are without
becoming enchanted or misled by them.

3. What is the role of ethics in a globalized world?

Ethics refers to a set of rules that describes acceptable conduct in society. Ethics serve as a guide
to moral daily living and helps us judge whether our behavior can be justified. Ethics refers to
society’s sense of the right way of living our daily lives. It does this by establishing rules,
principles, and values on which we can base our conduct. The concepts most directly associated
with ethics are truth, honesty, fairness, and equity.

While ethics is a societal concern, it is of critical importance to the professions that serve society.
Because professionals such as physicians, attorneys, engineers, and property and facility
managers provide services that affect our welfare, they develop professional codes of ethics that
establish professional standards for behavior.

4. Can a person still be ethical and moral even without any religious affiliation?

Most religious people think their morality comes from their religion. And deeply religious people
often wonder how atheists can have any morality at all.

Since God is worshipped as being absolutely good, all moral judgments must use God's absolute
goodness as a standard. Since what is absolute is eternal, necessary, and universal, it is not
subject to the vagaries of space and time.
Without this absoluteness, secular morality tends to be situational, relative, and contingent. It
lacks the authority of religious ethics to command people to do the good and right things. It
cannot command all men because its justification is weaker than the justification in the absolute
command of God. For Christians, Muslims, and Jews, morality without religion is indeed
unthinkable.