Name: Crestyl Faye R.

Cagatan Course & Section: BSN 2, WTh 4:30-6:00

Subject: Ethics Date: December 9, 2022

I chose Thomas More to discuss about his moral system. Thomas was an outgoing
individual who delighted in hosting friends and acquaintances and chatting about the issues that
were shaping the sixteenth-century world. He was an excellent lawyer who was always honest,
an exception in his profession in his era. He was knowledgeable in the important topics of his
day. He was a friend of Erasmus.

For me, he is not a person who takes a position and sacrifices himself for a cause. He is
a man who gives up his life because he cannot sacrifice his own commitment to his conscience.
He does not turn his back on what he believes is right.

Because he is very firm, he has unwavering faith in the legal process, a faith that
eventually causes his downfall. Because divorce is against Catholic law, he strongly opposes it,
and he will not sign the agreement to join the new church. He is consequently imprisoned and,
after a trial in which Cromwell convictions him, executed.

His refusal to accept King Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England led Henry
VIII’s vengeance. He received a traitor's sentence and was executed by beheading on London's
Tower Hill. The movie centers on Thomas More’s conscience, his attempts to save his life by
remaining silent, and his eventual surrender to death rather than act again his conscience.

The church was very different from what it is today during these times. The church
seemed more interested in getting money and power than in teaching people about God and
Jesus Christ and the spiritual aspect of church. As a result there were many wrong practices
going on in the church.