THE VOICE WITHIN…

By Priscilita Penetrante Perez, MAPA, MS Socio.

What is the Module About

Hello my dear students. I am happy you are holding this worktext or self- learning kit
entitled “THE VOICE WITHIN” in Ethics. The “Voice Within” implies the most essential
feature of Ethics as experienced by humans in touched with the said Course. This learning
kit features basic, simple and essential details of a work or activity. What makes learning
Ethics easy? I do hope that this module will help you.

In essence, this self-learning kit will help you understand and analyze ethical principles
and perspectives that you could apply in concrete situations.

I do hope you will work diligently on the assigned tasks as you learn to be more
independent, self-reliant and confident learners.

What Will You Learn?

This was prepared for primarily for those taking Ethics as a GEC subject in their Course
curriculum so that they will have basic understanding about basic ethical principles and
perspectives that they could apply in concrete situations.

The module has 5 lessons, to wit:

Lesson 1: Ethics: Basic Concepts and Issues

• Overview of Ethics
o Definition
o Purpose/Importance
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 o Division
o Material and Formal Objects of Ethics
• Moral and non-moral standards
• Moral dilemmas
• Ethics and Culture

Lesson 2: The Moral Agent

• Moral Personhood and Responsibility and Social Responsibility

• Reason and Impartiality
• The 7-step moral reasoning model
• Stages of moral development

Lesson 3: Natural Law and Divine Command Theory

Lesson 4: Utilitarianism
Lesson 5: Kant and Deontology
Lesson 6: Virtue Ethics
Lesson 7: Justice as Fairness
Lesson 8: Feminism and the Ethics of Care

Hope you will enjoy the learning journey… Read On... All the best…

Ma’am Nanny
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 Lesson 1.A

What is Ethics?
Purpose/Importance of Ethics?

What is This Lesson About?

Lesson 1 is an introductory lesson on Ethics.

What Will You Learn

In this lesson, you are expected to have:

Acquired clear understanding of what is Ethics and its Purpose/Importance.

Significant Culminating Performance Task and Success Indicators:

At the end of the lesson, you should be able to develop a Visual/Symbolic Illustrations
and write a descriptive essay to explain your own ideas and insights on what is Ethics.

The topics that will be discussed in this lesson are:

Ethics defined.

Importance of studying Ethics

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 Activities or Learning Tasks

Let Us TRY This…

What do you know about Ethics? What is the Importance or Relevance of Ethics
in one’s life?
To prepare you for the lesson, you have to accomplish these tasks:

TASK 1: Come up with your own creative illustration that would illustrate Ethics
and its importance in your life. Explain the illustration that you prepared.

My

My Creative Illustration of What Ethics Is and Its Relevance In My Life

My explanation for My Illustration

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

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 TASK 2: You need to view at least two educational videos on What is Ethics and
Its Importance. Take note of the important ideas or insights you learned after watching
the educational videos. Write them down on MY NOTES so you will not forget them.

Title of the Video: ________________________________________________

Video Link/Source/Reference: ______________________________________

MY NOTES

TASK 3: Guided by your list of ideas and insights learned and based on what you
viewed and listened to, choose any visual representation of what is Ethics and what is
its purpose/importance.

TASK 4: Provide answer to the incomplete sentences:

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After viewing two videos discussing the meaning and importance of Ethics:

1. I realize that ________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________.

2. I feel that ____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

3. I need to ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________.

Let Us READ and STUDY

Please read the following lesson excerpts.

Ethics

OVERVIEW OF ETHICS

• “Ethics” comes from the Greek word ethos, meaning character,

or “a character way of acting”.
• Ethics is the study of the moral behavior, or conduct of man as
viewed from ultimate principles insofar as these principles are
known by human reason.
• Briefly, Ethics is a philosophical science dealing with the
morality of the human act.

IMPORTANCE/PURPOSE OF ETHICS:

1. Guides the intellect in the acquisition and application of

moral principles.
2. Points out the right to living, just as the signposts on the
road indicate the right direction to a place, but it also
compels man to follow the directions to his ultimate destiny.
3. Guides the will in its search for what is good.

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Let Us THINK About and Let Us REMEMBER

To check whether you have acquired ideas about what is Ethics and what are its
purposes/importance, please provide answer to the following questions:

1. What is Ethics?

2. If you were to define what Ethics is, what will be your definition? Write your own
definition and explain

3. Will you be a living and walking advocate of Ethics? How?

4. Down the Memory Lane: Try to remember significant moments in your life
where Ethics could be found. Why do you say that there is “Ethics” in those
moments?

For your Rubrics in the above-mentioned activities, please be guided by the following:

Criteria 4 (Distinguished) 3 (Proficient) 2 (Basic) 1

(Unacceptable)

Content All Ideas and Most Ideas and Some ideas and Ideas and
Accuracy thoughts are thoughts are thoughts are thoughts are not
correct and correct and correct and correct and
insightful insightful insightful insightful

Students For the most Explanations of No reference is

provided an part, the key concepts made to
accurate students are incomplete literature or
explanation of provided or inaccurate theory
key concepts, accurate and taken from some
drawing upon complete reference There is little or
relevant explanations of sources no evidence of
literature key concepts valid research
drawing upon
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literature

Organization Extremely well Organization is Somewhat Poor

organized. The generally well- organized; The organization. It
organization organized. The organization does not clearly
reveals organization demonstrates show
important reveals some minimal understanding of
connections connections understanding of the connections
between ideas between ideas the connections of the
and of the ideas/insights
demonstrates a ideas/insights
thorough
analysis of
content

Presentation Appealing; clear; Clear and Lacks clarity; Not legible;

graphic legible some words are Difficult to
elements are hard to read understand
carefully drawn;
worlds clearly
written

Total Points

Let Us APPLY What We Have Learned

Search for some professional readings or articles related to what is ethics and its
purpose/importance. Choose one relevant article and download it (encode if it’s taken
from a book/newspaper/magazine and the like). Acknowledge the sources. Don’t forget
to state your reference/link. Summarize the important insights you learned from the
article.

GOODLUCK AND ENJOY LESSON 1.A….

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END OF LESSON 1.A

Prepared by:

PROF. PRISCILITA “NANNY” PENETRANTE PEREZ

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