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MODULE 1 LESSON 3

Test Your Understanding

Direction: Answer the following with a YES or NO. If your answer is NO, explain your
answer in a sentence.

1. No. It is only for Is morality for persons and animals?

persons because
only persons have
intellect and will.

2. No. Even the Is the natural law known only by the learned?
unschooled have
a sense to do
good and to avoid
evil

3. Yes Did the primitive people have a sense of the natural law?

4. No. To be moral Is an animalistic act of man moral?

is to be human.
Any act that
brings down man
to the level of the
brute like any
animalistic act is,
therefore, not
moral.

5. No. To be moral Is it right to judge a dog to be immoral if it defecates right there in your
is to be human. garden?
Any act that
brings down man
to the level of the
brute like any
animalistic act is,
therefore, not
moral.

6. No. Even Is the foundational moral principle sensed only by believers?

unbelievers have
a sense to do
good and avoid
evil because this
natural law is
written in every
man’s heart.

7. No. It is a Is the foundational moral principle very specific?

general
statement. “Do
good and avoid
evil.”

8. Yes Is the foundational moral principle basis of a more specific moral principle?

9. Yes Is the foundational moral principle so called because it is the basis of all
moral principles?

10. Yes Are the Ten Commandments for Christians more specific moral principle of
the foundational moral principle?

11. No, not Is the natural law literally engraved in every human heart?
literally. But it is
written or
engraved in every
human heart in
the sense that
every man has a
sense of the
principle “Do
good and avoid
evil.”

12. Yes Are The Five Pillars of Islam reflective of the natural law?

13. Yes Is the Buddhist's Eightfold Path in accordance with the natural law?
14. Yes Are the Golden rule for Christians basically the same with Kung-fu-tsu's
Reciprocity rule?

Synapse Strengtheners

A. Direction: Answer the following in a sentence or two.

1. To be moral is to be human. What does this mean?

This means that any act that is moral makes man/woman become more kind
of human being that he/she was intended to be.

2. Why is morality only for persons?

Morality is only for person because only person are endowed with intellect
with which they can think, reason out and analyze and free will with which
they can choose.

3. What do the following tell you about the natural law?

Cierco wrote: “ True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of

universal application, unchanging and everlasting ’’. According to
(Panizo,1964) “ Writing , customs, and monuments of the past, present
generations point out to this conclusion: that all people on earth, no matter
how savage and illiterate, have recognized a supreme of law of divine origin
commanding good and forbidding evil’’. “It is the law written in the hearts of
men.” (Romans 2:15) For theists, it is “man’s share in the Eternal Law of
God…” (Panizo, 1964) St. Thomas defines it as “the light of natural reason,
whereby we discern what is good and what is evil… an imprint on us of the
divine light…” (Panizo, 1964) It is the law that says: “Do good and avoid evil.”