Seatwork #1 in ETHICS

Name: ______________________________ Date: _________________________________

Schedule: ___________________________ Year and Course: _______________________

Note: The weight of the seatwork #1 is 20 points. In determining your score, the incorrect and the

missing answers will be counted and deducted from 20 points. For that, you must complete your work.

Example: 20- 10 incorrect/missing answers = 10/20

Define/ describe in 2 to 3 sentences only.

1. Ethics- It is derived from the Greek word “ethos” which means custom or habit. It has something to
do with our actions which develop into custom or habit. It also deals with the righteousness and
wrongness of human conduct.

2. Morality-

3. Meta-Ethics- It is concerned with the nature of ethics or morality. Meta-Ethics deals with the
questions such as “Is morality objective or subjective?” and/or “Is there an absolute, objective, and
universal morality?”

4. Normative Ethics- It deals with what one should act morally. This includes regulating our behaviors
depending on the habits we develop, the duties that we follow, and weighing the foreseeable
consequences of our actions.

5. Applied Ethics- It deals with the application of ethical standards in analyzing and solving moral issues
from different disciplines and institutions such as or related to medicine, environment, society,
technology, etc. (IEP, 2020)

6. Laws- it is any rule of action or any system of uniformity. And according to Thomas Aquinas, is “an
ordinance of reason for the common good of a [complete] community, promulgated by the person or
body responsible for looking after the community”

7. Rules- According to Cambridge (2020), rules are accepted principles or instructions that state the way
things are or should be done, and tells you what you are allowed or are not allowed to do.

8. Moral Standards- also called Moral Laws, according to Thomas Aquinas, is “an ordinance of

reason for the common good of a [complete] community, promulgated by the person or body
responsible for looking after the community”

9. Sets of codes or regulations 

10. Religious convictions

11. Moral dilemmas

12. Reason and Affection 

13. Blended Mode of Learning

14. The 4x’s—Explain, Expound, Example, and Experience 

15. Punishment and Restitution

16. Society or Community 

17. Guide to conduct

18. Preservation and survival

19. Peace and order

20. Promotion of common good

21. Flourishing of human values and rights

22. Our Conscience

23. Moral Philosophy 

24. Intellect

25. Will

26. Practical reason

27. Christian Perspective

28. Objectivity vs. Subjectivity

29. Relativity 

30. Absolute Norm of Morality