WHAT

ETHICS IS
NOT
DINESSA ANGELIQUE CORVERA
LAW

A rule created and enforced by the government and it's

agencies to maintain order, resolve disputes, and protect a
person's liberty and rights.

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LAW

1. What is legal is not necessarily moral, what is moral is not necessarily legal.

2. Law only interferes when the actions are public; ethics interfere even actions
that are completely private.Morality precedes legality.

3. Laws are usually the product of a collective agreement; morality is not.

4. Morality precedes legality.

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LAW

Assignment #1
Do you think that Filipino consciousness about the
dissolution of marriage, abortion, and contraceptives
hasn’t yet attained enlightenment?

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RELIGION

  Does Morality
depend on Religion?
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RELIGION

Is conduct right because the gods command

it, or do the gods command it because it is
right? 
Euthyphro's dilemma

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RELIGION

If “X is good” means “X is commanded by

God,” then “God ‘s command s are good”
would mean only “God’s command are
commanded by God.”

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RELIGION

Dostoevsky asks, “If God is

dead, is everything
permitted?”
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PROBLEMS
1. Difficulty of proving supernatural existence – to prove conclusively that a supernatural world exists
and that morality exists there as well as in the natural world.

2. Nonreligious people can be moral –many human beings do not accept the existence of a supernatural
world and yet act morally as anyone who does, then there must be some attributes other than religious
belief that are necessary for one to be moral.

3. Difficulty of providing a rational foundation- taking religion as a logical foundation for morality is weak
for there is no conclusive evidence that would prove the existence of supernatural world, an afterlife, a
god, or gods.

4. Which religion are we to accept as the true or real foundation of morality?

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RELIGION

Where do these standards come

from, if they have the authority to
judge even our best religious
traditions?
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RELIGION

Where do these standards come

from, if they have the authority to
judge even our best religious
traditions?
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ETIQUETTE AND POLICY

Etiquette is a set of rules on how an individual

should responsibly behave in the society.
Policy is a statement of how an organization plans
to handle its services, actions, or business.

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ETIQUETTE AND POLICY

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CONCLUSION

“Is ethics just about following rules of do’s and

don'ts? This neglects the more important aspect of
being a human person and that is becoming what
you should be. The most important question is not
“What should I do?” but “What kind of person
should I be?”
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