ETHICS: INTRODUCTION

What is Ethics?

Ethics was taken from the Greek word ‘ethos’

which means ‘customs’, ‘usage’ ‘characteristic’,
Analyze the news article and identify if it is an example of ETHICS or just
an etiquette (ethos)
[In my conversation with (the mother)] I said, "Here, this is not the manner in which we
eat."... I don't necessarily want students to eat with one hand or with only one
instrument, I want them to eat intelligently at the table... I want them to eat correctly
with respect for others who are eating with them. That's all I ask. Personally, I don't have
any problems with it, but it is not the way you see people eat every day. I have never seen
somebody eat with a spoon and a fork at the same time.
Later reporting alleged that Luc was warned that he was tardy at the table, and so he
reverted to the spoon-feeding method to save time. Luc said that he was separated from
his lunchmates any time he ate that way.
Bergeron was subsequently restrained from speaking on the issue by the school board;
spokesperson Brigitte Gavreau stated that board policy was that students could eat with
any utensils.
A score of protestors outside the Canadian Embassy in Manila appealed for "respect for
cultural diversity" and affirmed "we eat with a spoon and we're proud."[4] The item was
quickly picked up worldwide, especially in Filipino newspapers and websites.

Are Etiquette and Ethics synonymous

terms?
 Technically, What is Ethics?

1. It is a branch of philosophy that is a

philosophical enterprise that investigates
and questions the way or the nature of
human actions, see if it has a ground so that
it supports its own moral claim.
A Code of ethics is a set of ethical guidelines that is
universally recognized.
2. Ethics investigates or studies
morality.
thus, the term ethics is expressed in
various ways of understanding and
examining the moral life of the
person as it is cited by Beauchamp
and Childress (1994).
Are Ethics and morality synonymous
terms?
 3. ETHICS= IS NOT JUST ANY ACTION OF MAN,
RATHER, AN ACTION THAT IS GEARED TOWARDS WHAT IS
CONSIDERED MORAL, NAMELY, HUMAN ACTION.

Acts of Human vs. Human Acts

1. Acts of Human - These are processes that do not require
a decision-making action from a person. They happen
naturally in the body, without a person's being
conscious about them. Acts of Human is neither right or
wrong.
2. Human Acts - These are actions that require a person to
make a choice, use utmost responsibility, and use
his/her conscience. Human Acts can either be right or
wrong.
Here are some examples of Acts of Human:
1. breathing

2. beating of the heart

3. perspiration

4. growing of the hair

5. growing of the nails

Here are
some examples of
Human Acts:

1. telling the truth

2. giving money to the
poor
3. returning a lost
item
Are the behaviors of a six-year-old girl considered human acts or acts of
man?
Is driving under the influence of alcohol
or drugs, resulting in a person's
accident or death, classified as a
human act or an act of man?
 Human acts can be classified:
1. GOOD ACTION
2. BAD ACTION
Acts of man is considered as:
1. AMORAL or INDIFFERENT
ACTIONS