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UNIT 2: THE MORAL AGENT

2.0 Learning Outcomes

On completion of the module, you should be able to:
a. explain the relationship between individual acts and character;
and
b. identify and articulate each stage of moral development.

EXERCISE 1

Name: Borja, Rudylyn J. Yr. & Sec: BS Psychology 1-A Score: _____

Subject: ETHICS

Consider this….

You can use eighty soldiers as a decoy in war and thereby attack an enemy force and kill
several hundred enemy soldiers.

1. Is this virtuous act? Explain your point of view

 Yes, because in this situation explains that virtous act exhibits. The excellence and this situation is a
kind of virtous act because the character do the best that is emotionally attached to it

2. How useful do you think virtue ethics would be in making decisions?

 is useful acts because it guide us without specific rules for resolving ethnical delimmas and it leads to
the fulfillment of the human potential.

3. How would you apply it in life?

 By having knowledge and consistently choose to do good acts deliberately for the right reasons and
purpose for the sake of others ,By practicing the best version of me that helps me to grow so on as a
person develops an honorable and moral character that will lead me to the Right choice of life.

EXERCISE 2

Name: Borja, Rudylyn J. Yr. & Sec. BS Psychology 1-A Score: _____
Subject: ETHICS

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If you were to pick one of the below answers, which one would you CHOOSE?

1. Heinz should NOT steal the drug because he would be put to prison for his crime.

2. Heinz should steal the drug because he would feel gratified and happier.

3. Heinz should steal the drug because he’s a good husband and its expected of him to do
so by his wife.

4. Heinz should steal the drug but be incarcerated because he broke the law.

5. Heinz should steal the drug because saving a life is more important than breaking the
law.

6. Heinz should steal the drug but NOT be incarcerated because the law would be unjust if
it penalized an individual for saving a life.

ANSWER:

 I choose Heinz should steal the drug but be incarcerated because he broke the law the number 4
because if we are talking about people's lives, I would rather choose to steal for the sake of my loved
ones because mistakes in life that have a reason for the goods are not obstacles in life's trials if I
know that everyone will get better and it can help in a person's life, because life is more difficult if it is
not returned compared to things that can be changed .life is more important than mistakes that can be
change.So that Heinz should steal the medicine, because saving a human life is a more fundamental
value than the property rights of another person.

C. M. D. Hamo-ay