KYGAN DELOS SANTOS MARCH 23, 2024

JAZZPHEN IAN SEQUITIN ETH 0008-3

COLLABORATIVE ASSIGNMENT 1

OUR VERY OWN FORMULATED QUESTIONS:

1. What does virtue mean to you?

2. Growing up, what are the virtues that parents either passed, taught to you, or even
learned from them that you sYll conYnue to value today?
3. How do these virtues affect you, your environment, and the people around you?
4. In your opinion, are virtues inherent traits, or are they developed through pracYce
and experience? Can virtues be taught or must they be discovered individually?
5. Lastly, do you consider yourself as a virtuous person?

DOCUMENTED ANSWERS:

PERSON 1 PERSON 2 PERSON 3

AGE: 22
WORK: SALES
ADMINISTRATOR
Virtue is related to one's
ethics. It is how I show my
good qualiYes to other
people. I show the "good"
things that I know that are
morally good according to
the teachings I grew up with.
I was always taught to value
their presence and respect
their standing and decisions
as parents. There are Ymes
when I disregarded their
advises and that led me to
trouble.
AGE: 23 AGE: WOULDN’T WANT TO
WORK: PHARMACEUTICS/ SPECIFY (EARLY 40’S)
CALL CENTER WORK: CIVIL ENGINEER
Virtue for me, is the act and Virtue means doing what is
mindset of doing what is morally right.
right. I agribute virtue to
being honest, courageous
and understanding.
The virtues that have been Growing up, my parents
passed down from my insYlled in me the virtues of
parents are what usually kindness, being helpful and
parents teach their children loving even on tough
growing up, but the one trait situaYons of life.
that stands out for me is
helping others in need. This
virtue is what I resonate with
and try to perform on a daily
basis or when the situaYon
demands it.

These virtues shape who I am
today. How I treat my parents
is how I treat other people
especially elderly people.
Through these virtues, I have
been able to befriend
countless unique individuals
that have helped me and
influenced me in a posiYve
manner that makes me
beger myself.
PracYcing these virtues, it led
me to my happiness and a
sense of purpose in my life. It
creates a ripple effect to my
environment as I was able to
pass it down to my children
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and to everyone around me
which made us beger person.
Virtues are not inherent, I I believe they are both, some Children are mirrors and
believe that they are taught virtues are taught by our imitators, I believed that
and observed at a young age. family, and most of our virtues can be inherit and
How their environment, virtues or the ones we ignore developed along the way. It
including the people around throughout our childhood can be a combinaYon of
them teach them what is and early teens are learned teaching and self-discovery
right and wrong, and how to and applied through thru personal experiences in
act morally good affect how experience and are best life.
they grow up as an adult. taught by life as we get older.
Moreover, virtues are both
taught and discovered.
People are taught to do the
right things through religious
pracYces, moral pracYces,
and ethical pracYces done by
the school, parents, or even
neighbors. It can also be
discovered since people
insYncYvely know some
things that are good and are
bad. This knowledge helps
them discover decisions that
are morally accepted by the
society
I would consider myself a I try to be a virtuous person, Yes, I strive to be a virtuous
virtuous person when faced but other people can be the person.
among strangers. Virtuous only judge if I am a truly
people behave morally virtuous person or not. If I
upright, and my parents can stand up to the occasion
taught me how to act as a and do what's right even if it
good person in front of isn't beneficial for me can
people I do not know help myself know that I am
casually. However, when it walking on the right path.
comes to friends, I open up
more and sin quite a lot. I do
not view my friends as bad
influences, it is more of how I
tolerate myself in doing not-
so-virtuous acts.
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JAZZPHEN IAN SEQUITIN ETH 0008-3
COLLABORATIVE ASSIGNMENT 1

VIRTUOUS PEOPLE: DO THEY STILL EXIST?

A REFLECTIVE SUMMARY

Every day we wake up and strive to make our day great. We meet different people, of
different ages, different backgrounds, and different stories, with different moYves that drive us
to live another day. With our everyday rouYne, do we strive to be virtuous, but how, in a world
that’s full of sadness, cruelty, and hatred, can someone live virtuously?
In this task, we had the opportunity to interview people and ask about their way of
becoming virtuous, and based on our findings from the testaments that we got, generally, virtues
come from or at least are started by our parents, themselves. These good traits have been taught
and pracYced since we were young and growing up these become virtues. These traits guided
them to roam the world while making connecYons with people, some of them admiged that not
every day they pracYce these virtues, depending on the people they are with or encounter. It’s
good that most of the people that we interviewed conYnue and will conYnue to these virtues
that they know of and grew up with, they pracYce it in their everyday lives without thinking twice
about doing what is considered morally good.
What we can conclude from this acYvity and from the people whom we had the
opportunity to ask about virtues is that virtuous people sYll do exist. People who pracYce and
spread kindness and love even among strangers, though the world is not all love and kindness,
there is cruelty in this world that we are all aware of and it is good that the majority of us pracYce
kindness and understanding of each other, at least here in the Philippines, some of us are. Modern
issues affect us also, as well as the media and every technology with the capability of spreading
informaYon can affect our daily decisions, as humans we are vulnerable, we are not perfect, and
we are capable of kind acts but also we are capable of hurYng and being hurt. The human mind
is as complex as the universe, each of us is different, with different backgrounds, different stories,
and different moYves but sYll, each of us should always choose what’s morally good and
acceptable, be guided by our virtues and teach these virtues to others as well.