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THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF

HUMAN EXISTENCE

Lesson 1: Brotherhood or violence?

 Brotherhood or violence

Objectives
• Identify the details of a report on case of fraternity hazing;
• Reflect on fraternity hazing as a real world issue; and
• Recognize the real world issues as the context from which we begin
our study of ethics.
 Ethics
Ethics, generally speaking is about matters such as the good thing that we
should pursue and the bad thing that we should avoid ; the right ways in
which we could or should act and the wrong ways of acting. Its all about
what is acceptable and unacceptable in human behavior. It may involve
obligations that we are excepted to fulfill, prohibitions that we are required
to respect, or ideals that we encouraged to meet. Ethics as a subject for us
to study is about determining the grounds or bases for a specific set of
values with particular and special significance to human life.
Brotherhood or
Violence
One could formulate ways to think about
abstract concepts such as study or
responsibility , to realize why thinking about
the ethics is not just engaging in another
academic exercise, but corresponding to the
urgent call on how we deal with very real
situations that confront in this world.
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FRATERNITY AND HAZING

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HAZING

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 FRATERNITY AND HAZING

Good effects Bad effects

• Create a sense of unity • Physical
• Help someone to become a • Emotional
well rounded person. • Mental instability ,etc.
Think
In, august 2007, news paper reported what seemed to be yet
another sad incident in fraternity violence, Cris Anthony
Mendez, a twenty year old student of the university of the
Philippine or UP,
Was rushed to the hospital in the early morning hours,
unconscious, with large bruises on his chest back and legs.
He passed away that morning , and the subsequent
autopsy report strongly suggest that his physical
injuries due to hazing.
What exactly happened remain an open questions as
none of those where with him that night .
What the value of ones life?

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 LIFE?
Life people to a larger sense of purpose and value, making positive
contributions, not only to our personal and spiritual growth, but also to
society and the human civilization as a whole.
CHALLENGE
• Various organizations not only fraternities and sororities, but also
clubs and communities may require certain qualifications for being
considered, go through a certain process for being amitted, as well as
have some from rites of initiation.
LIFE IS SHORT
 MORAL

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Make yourself necessary and you will always be needed. If you
want to feel successful, learn to create, innovate or design
something other people can use and need