Diagnostic Exercise

1. What is Ethics?
2. What is morality?
3. Why are rules important?
What is Ethics?
• A rational way of deciding what is
good for individuals or society. A
way to chose between competing
moral principles or when there is
not a clear right or wrong answers.
What is morality?
• An individual’s code of behavior
base on religious or philosophical
principles. Morals define right or
wrong in ways that may or may
not be rational.
Why are rules important to
people?
 Pre-discussion:

What could happen when no one follows rules and those

who break them go unpunished.
 Lesson 1
WHY DO YOU NEED TO STUDY ETHICS AND THE
IMPORTANCE OF RULES

• A moral experience is any

encounter wherein a person
understands that the values
he or she believes to be
important are either
realized or thwarted (Hunt
and Carnevals 2011).
 KEY TAKEAWAYS

 Rules are meant to set order in the society.

 Rules are intended for human persons. They are not meant to limit a person’s
freedom which is ability to choose and do what is good. Rather rules are meant
to help persons choose and do what is good.
 Those who do what is good don’t even feel the presence of a rule that prevent
them from doing what is not good. it is those who intend to do the opposite of
what is good that feel the suffocating and limiting presence of a rule.
 When society is ideal, i.e. when all persons are good and do only what is deal
then there will be no more need for rules and laws according to Lao Tzu
 The Need to Study Ethics

• The Commission on higher Education states “ethics deals

with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the
level of the person, society, and in interaction with the
environment and other shared resources,’’ (CMO 20 series
2013)
 Relevance of the Studying Ethics in your Chosen profession

Ethics ensure a generally agrees standard of work-

related behavior that empowers professionals to foster
moral values through their work.
Importance of Rules to Social Beings
 IMPORTANCE OF RULES TO SOCIAL
BEINGS
• Humans, in general, do not live in
isolation. Instead, an individual is a
member of a community of people
whose common goal is to survive
and thrive. As human societies
involved, they found that human
communities have better chances to
survive if they work together.
• Rules are important to social beings.
Just imagine the chaos that results
from the absence of rules. What
happens when students and
professors alike come to school in a
any attire they want? Imagine what
happen when in the classroom
everyone wants to talk at the same
time?
 IMPORTANCE OF RULES TO SOCIAL
BEINGS
• Rules are mean to set order. Rules (the •For the sake of order in society,
Philippine Constitutions) and other laws
everyone is subject to rules. in a
included) are meant for man. The greatest
Teacher, Jesus Christ, preached democratic country like Philippines, we
emphatically, “ The Sabbath is made for often hear the statement “No one is
man and not man for the Sabbath”. The above the law,’” including the highest
law of Sabbath, i.e to keep it holy and
observe rest, is meant to make man whole official of the country. We are all subject
by resting and by giving him time to thank to rules or else court chaos.
and spend time in prayer and worship for
this own good.
 Activity: Queen Bee Alert!
1. Give at least three school rules. Describe each. Why are these rules
important to your school?
2. Give at least three rules in your community/barangay. Describe each.
Why are these rules important to your community/barangay?
 QUEEN BE ALERT

Form group of 5. Recall and share with your

group a rule that you have to follow at school
and the reason behind such rule.
 REFLECTION

Reflect on your attitude towards

rules. Do you welcome rules? or are
you allergic to rules? What if there
were no rules?