COURSE TITLE: ETHICS

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course deals with principles of ethical behaviour in modern society level of the person, society and in their interaction
with the environment and other shared resources (CM 20 s.2013). The course also teaches students to make moral decisions by using dominant ethical
frameworks and by applying a seven-step moral reasoning model to analyze and solve moral dilemmas.

TIME ALLOTMENT TOPICS/CONCEPTS LEARNING OUTCOMES

CHAPTER 1: Understanding Morality and Moral
Standards
 Importance of Rules
 Moral and Non-moral Standards
 Moral Dilemmas
 Three Levels of Moral Dilemma
 Freedom as Foundation of Moral Act
 Culture and How it defines Moral Behavior
 Cultural Relativism
 Filipino Character – Strengths and Weaknesses
 Universal Values
CHAPTER II: The Moral Agent
 The Person as a Moral Agent
- Fundamental Option
 Development of Moral Character of the Moral Agent
- Defining Moment
 The Stages of Moral Development
 Explain the importance of rules
 Distinguish between moral and non-moral standards
 Explain moral dilemma as a moral experience
 Distinguish between a moral dilemma and a false dilemma
 Illustrate the three levels of moral dilemma
 Explain why only human beings can be ethical
 Explain freedom as a moral choice
 Articulate what culture, enculturation, inculturation, and acculturation mean
 Attribute facets of personal behavior to culture
 Explain how culture shapes the moral agents
 Explain cultural relativism
 Distinguish between cultural relativism and cultural perspective
 Analyze crucial qualities of the Filipino moral identity
 Evaluate the elements of the Filipino character that need to be changed
 Identify the universal values
 Explain why universal values are a necessity for human survival
 Discuss what moral agent means
 Discuss the meaning of fundamental option
 State defining moments in your moral formation
 Explain the relationship between moral acts and character
 Describe each stage of moral development
 Evaluate one’s personal growth against the stages of personal development
CHAPTER III: Human Act
 The Meaning of Human Act
- The Determinants of the morality of human act
 Accountability of Moral Act
 Feeling as a modifier of moral decision-making
 Reason and Impartiality as Minimum Requirements for
Morality
 The Difference Between Reason and Will
CHAPTER IV: Frameworks and Principles behind Moral
Frameworks
 The Meaning of Ethical Framework
 Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics
 St. Thomas’ Natural Law
 Kant’s Deontological Ethics: The Duty Framework
 Utilitarianism: The Consequentialist Ethical Framework
 The Love and Justice Framework
CHAPTER V: Globalization and Its Critical Challenges
 Globalization and Pluralism: New Challenges in Ethics
 Millenials and Fillenials: Ethical Challenges and
Responses
 The Religious Response: The Role of Religion in Ethics
 Explain the meaning of human act, the morality and accountability of
human act
 Discuss the three bases of moral accountability
 Discuss and give examples of modifiers of human act
 Explain the role of feelings in moral decision making
 Define reason and impartiality as minimum requirements for morality
 Discuss the seven-step of moral reasoning model and value clarification
process
 Distinguish between reason and will
 Explain the meaning of ethical framework
 Distinguish among the five ethical frameworks
 Discuss virtue ethics
 Articulate what natural law ethics is
 Articuate the duty ethical framework
 Differentiate what is legally right from what is morally right
 Discuss what is ethical based on utilitarianism or the consequentialit’s
ethical framework
 Articulate what love and justice mean
 Explain how taxation can serve as an instrument of social justice and
welfare
 Explain the meaning of globalization
 Identify the moral challenges that globalization brings
 Describe millennials and fillennials
 Point out traits of the millennials and fillenials that are inimical to their
moral development as human persons
 Differentiate ethics from religion
 Explain the role of religion in ethics