TUP Vision
resourcefulness in compliance to the mandates of
- The Technological University of the
Philippines shall be the premier state
university with recognized excellence in
engineering and technology at par with
leading universities in the ASEAN region
TUP Mission
- The University shall provide higher and
advanced vocational, technical, industrial,
technological, and professional education
and training in industries and technology,
and in practical arts leading to certificates,
diplomas and degrees.
- It shall provide progressive leadership in
applied research, developmental studies in
technical, industrial, and technological fields
and production using indigenous materials;
effect technology transfer in the countryside;
and assist in the development of small-and-
medium scale industries in identified growth
center.
TUP Quality Policy
- The Technological University of the
Philippines shall commit to provide quality
higher and advanced technological
education; conduct relevant research and
extension projects; continually improve its
value to customers through enhancement of
personnel competence and effective quality
management system compliant to statutory
and regulatory requirements; and adhere to
its core values.
TUP Core Values
T - Transparent and participatory governance
U - Unity in the pursuit of TUP mission, goals,
and objectives
P - Professionalism in the discharge of quality
service
I - Integrity and commitment to maintain the good
name of the University
A - Accountability for individual and
organizational quality performance
N - Nationalism through tangible contribution to the
rapid economic growth of the country
S - Shared responsibility, hard work, and
the university
Ethics
- Matters like good thing we should pursue
- Right ways which we should act
- Acceptable human behavior
- Obligations we expect to fulfill/ideals
encouraged to meet
- Grounds for specific set of values w/ particular
and special significance to human life
- Valuations we make in sphere of human actions
by certain gravity that concerns wellbeing or
human life
- Disciple of studying and understanding idea;
human behavior and ideal ways of thinking
- Acknowledge as intellectual discipline belonging
to philosophy
Vs.
- Bad thing to avoid
- Unacceptable behavior
- Prohibitions required to respect
Valuations NOT Under Ethics
1. Aesthetics – judgement of personal
approval/disapproval we make about we
see, hear, smell and taste
2. Technical Valuation – right/wrong technique
of doing things
3. Etiquette – right and wrong actions
maintained by society
Valuations UNDER Ethics
1. Moral Issue – situation that calls for moral
emulation
2. Moral dilemma – one torn between
choosing one or two good; choosing lesser
of two evils
Reasoning
- Reason to give to decide/judge that an action is
right/wrong?
- By fear of punishment? Desire for reward?
Principles
- Rationally established grounds which one
justifies and maintains moral decisions and
judgements
Moral Theory
- Systematic attempt to establish validity
maintaining moral principles
Framework
- Theory of interconnected ideas
- Structure which we evaluate our reasons for
valuing certain decision/judgement
Ethics
- Practical science of morality of human
conduct
1. Science – complete and systematically
arranged body of data that relates to
morality of human conduct; presents
reasons that shows these data are true
2. Practical Science – presents data
directly imply and indicate directions for
human conduct
3. Human Conduct – deals with human
acts (deliberate and free acts)
4. Morality of Human Conduct –
agreement/disagreement of human
activity that dictates of reason (morality)
Ethics
- Ethos: characteristic way of acting;
characteristic mark of human conduct is
found in free and deliberate use of will;
characteristic found in human acts
Why study ethics?
- Employs human reason upon question of
what upright life is and must be
- Furnishes norm which relations among men
are regulated
- Identify faulty ethical theories and lack of
definite ethical principles which have been
cause of great disorders in contemporary
world
- Supplies scientific knowledge that
evidences the unworthiness and unreason
of such thing
Note:
 We are initiated into moral experience
and life by community (culture handed
down)
Factors transform communal culture to moral
reflection:
1. Psychological Maturation
- Taught basic traditional practices as we
grow adulthood
- Traditional ways are soon internalized and
become moral convictions/ reflected
positions
2. Experience leads to moral reflection
- Experience of undesirable result makes him
develop initiative
3. Community encounters other cultures/
ethical traditions
- Makes one question his own moral traditions
Cultural Relativism
- Judgements what is ethically/ unethically
acceptable depend on one’s culture
Age of Globalization
- Ideas, beliefs, practices intersect
- Perspective diverse
- Don’t impose own ideas of what is goof or
what our own culture dictates
Note: Ethical standards culturally transferred to
us become one of basis of our ethical valuation.
Human act
- Act proceeds from deliberate free will of man
- Internal/external; bodily/spiritual
- Proceeds from knowing and freely willing
human being
Human
- Those acts proper to man as man
- Man is more than animal
- Common to animal: senses, bodily
tendencies, or appetites
- Rational: has understanding and free will
Acts repeated > Habits > Unite and forms
Human Character
Man
- Responsible
- Human acts attributed to him to
praise/blame of reward/punishment
- Man is what his human acts make him
Classification of Human Acts
1. Adequate Cause of Human Acts
 Elicited Acts
- Find adequate cause in will alone
a. Wish
- simple love anything
- First tendency of will towards
thing
- Begins with wish to act
b. Intention
- Purposive tendency of will
towards thing regarded as
realizable whether thing is done
or not
c. Consent
- Acceptance by will of means
need to carry out intention
- Further intention of doing what’s
needed to realize the first/main
intention
d. Election
- Will selects precise means to be
employed/ consent in carrying
intention
e. Use
- Employment by will of powers to
carry out intention by means
selected
f. Fruition
- Enjoyment of thing willed and
done
- Wil’s act of satisfaction in fulfilled
intention
Objective thing willed
- I wish, I intend, I enjoy (to help)
Means of accomplishing it
- I consent to, I elect, I use my faculties
on (means required to help)
 Commanded Acts
- Don’t find cause in simple will-act
- Perfected by action of mental/ bodily
powers under control/orders of will
a. Internal
- acts done by internal mental
powers under command of will
b. External
- affected by bodily powers
under command of will
c. Mixed
- bodily and mental powers
2. Relation of Human Acts to Reason
a. Good – harmony w/ dictates of reason
b. Evil – in opposition to dictates reason
c. Indifferent – stand in no positive relation
to dictate of reason; good/evil according
to circumstance that affect performance
esp to end view of agent
Essential Elements/Constituents of Human Act
- Knowing, free, voluntary
a. Knowledge
- From deliberate will
- Requires deliberation
b. Freedom
- Human act is act
determined(elicited/commanded) by will
and nothing else
- Under will control
- Can do or leave undone
- Free act: human act must be free
c. Voluntariness
- Voluntas: latin of will
- Both knowledge and freedom in agent
- Voluntary act = human act
Modifiers of Human Act
- Affect human act in knowledge, freedom
and voluntariness
- Makes less perfectly human
- Lessen moral character of human act;
diminish responsibility of agent
a. Ignorance
- Absence of intellectual knowledge
b. Concupiscence
- Frailty or proneness to evil
- Bodily appetites or tendencies
(passions)
 c. Fear
- Shrinking back of mind from danger or
agitation of mind
- Slight disturbance > actual panic
- Brought by apprehension of impending
evil
- Act done from fear = conditionally
voluntary
d. Violence
- External force applied by free cause for
purpose of compelling a person to
perform against will
- Caused by violence and not imputable
to agent
e. Habit
- Lasting readiness and facility
- Born or frequently repeated acts
- For acting in certain manner
- Don’t destroy voluntariness
- Acts from habit are voluntary as long as
habit can endure
Ends of Human Acts
 End – termination and goal of activity
 Every human act comes from appetency
– tendency toward end
 End is always sought – desirable,
satisfactory good
 Evil is never end of human act
 Man’s ultimate end is infinite good and
possession of limitless good or
happiness
 Aristotle: Happiness is ultimate end of
limitless good/happiness
Morality
- Quality of human acts that lead to call
some of good and some evil
- Good: Human act in harmony w/ law,
conscience, and culture
- Property of free act
Norm of Morality
- Remotely and ultimately the Eternal Law
- Proximately it is conscience (secondary)
- Another norm: Culture
Moral Act
- Free
- But freedom does not constitute morality
Determinants of Morality
1. Object
- Human act performed
- Deed done: primary determinant of
morality
- Object is evil = Act is evil and forbidden
- If act is good as object still be vitiated by
circumstance like end of agent
2. End of Agent
- What agent intend to achieve by his act
- Purpose, motive
- End he has in view
Ethical Principles in matter of end of agent as
determinants of morality:
a. Good act done for a good end takes on
an added or new goodness from the end,
and from each good end that influences
the act.
b. Bad act done for an evil end takes on an
added or a new malice from the end, and
from each evil end that influences the act.
c. Good act done for an evil end is wholly
evil if the end is the complete motive for
the act, or if the end, while only a partial
motive, is gravely evil.
d. Evil act can never become good by
reason of a good end.
e. Indifferent act is good if done for a good
end, evil if for an evil end.
3. Circumstances
- Conditions that affect an act and may
affect it morally
- They do not belong to essence of act
 Circumstance of person: Who
 quantity/quality of object: What?
 Place: where
 Means/Instrument: With what ally/means
 Manner: what condition/how
 Time: when/how long
 End of agent: Why
Ethical Principles in matter of circumstances as Vices
determinants of morality:
- Evil moral habit
a. An indifferent act becomes good or evil - Habitual lack of virtue
because of its circumstances. - Oppose to virtue by defect or excess
b. A good act may become evil because of 4 Cardinal Virtues
circumstances.
1. Prudence
c. An act may become better or worse or - Understanding
may take on a new goodness or evil - Quickly/ clearly knows
because of circumstances. - Best means to an end
- Takes means promptly and accurately
d. An evil act can never be made good by 2. Justice
circumstances. - Render to everyone his own
e. A gravely evil circumstance entirely - Recognize and pay his/her debt
vitiates a good act. 3. Fortitude
- Incline to one to face dangers with
f. A slightly evil circumstance does not intrepidity such dangers that threaten life
entirely vitiate a good act. - Not rashness, over boldness, of
Properties of Human Acts presumptuous love of danger
- Largeness of mind and soul combine w/
1. Imputability these power of endurance
- Since it proceeds from knowing, free 4. Temperance
agent or rational being - Controls one in pursuit and use of
- Agent is responsible, accountable and pleasures of life
answerable for them - Regulations of tendencies
2. Merit and Demerit - Same Self-mastery which reason
- Human acts imputed to agent (conscience) dictates
- Blame/praise , reward/punishment
Consequences of Human Act
- Effect to doer of act/agent
- More frequent he has done, easier
performance
- Human acts form habit
- Human act has always morality as
good/evil
- Habit forming tendency of acts will be
direction of good/evil
Virtues
- Good moral habit
- Virtus -Latin
- Vir – a wo/manliness: mark and
characteristic of true and upright
wo/man
- Signifies habitual womanliness and
power for good acts
- Arises from frequent performance of
such acts