TAGUM DOCTORS COLLEGE, INC.
Mahogany St., Rabe Subd., Visayan Village, Tagum City
GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
REVIEW NOTES
GEC8- ETHICS
RELIGION - resides values supposedly Davide Hume - was widely skeptical
designed to outweigh all earthly about religion.
preoccupations. Includes spiritual values
(developed through prayers, sacrifices, Friedrich Nietzsche - stated that “God
love of God, observance of sacraments, is Dead”
and religious rites). Moral values aid in
forming an individual’s character and Sigmund Freud - considered religion as
his/her relationship with others. an illusion.
(A) Ethics is taken up in school to help Karl Marx - considered religion as the
students understand themselves and to opium of the people.
guide them on how to live their lives well.
(B) Ethics, as a distinct study, is also Charles Taylor - stated that
informed by citizenship education as it "Secularism" is a consequence not so
induces the cultivation of the student’s much of the decline of religion but the
creative, imaginative, and critical appearance of other alternatives that
abilities, the same abilities needed to be compete with religion for recognition and
fully human and humane. popularity.
Jean Piaget - focuses on the human Axel Honneth - believes that
subject’s cognitive development. recognition is an essential requirement
of self-realization.
Sigmund Freud - the “Father of
Psychoanalysis” Immersion - is the act or the fact of
becoming completely involved in
Lawrence Kohlberg - concentrated on something.
a person’s moral development.
Some values do have moral
George Herbert Mead - he stated that implications while others don’t.
the self does not mature on its own
Standard is an idea or thing used as
Society - is a system characterized by a measure, norm or model in
formal structures such as institutions, comparative evaluation.
laws, and other regulations.
People have to understand the
difference between moral standards
Aristotle - believes that ethics has an and non-moral ones, to identify
inherent socio-political dimension. fundamental ethical values that may
guide our actions.
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TAGUM DOCTORS COLLEGE, INC.
Mahogany St., Rabe Subd., Visayan Village, Tagum City
GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
REVIEW NOTES
GEC8- ETHICS
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others non-moral standards.
Differences and similarities of
Moral standards affect other people Formation and Transformation of self.
lives.
Moral standards involve the rules Differences and similarities of
people have about the kinds of Psychology and Philosophy.
actions they believe are morally right
and wrong.
Moral standards normally promote
“the good” that is, the welfare and
well-being of humans as well as
animals and the environment.
Consistency of Moral standards
may differ from society to society and
culture to culture.
Norms are the general rules about
actions or behaviors.
Values are the enduring beliefs
about what is good and desirable, or
not.
One of the characteristics of the
Moral standards is the welfare of
beings.
Non-Moral standards refer to
standards by which we judge what is
good or bad and right or wrong in a
non-moral way.
Non-Moral standards refer to rules
that affect the choice of a person but
are not linked to moral or ethical
considerations.
One of the examples of the non-
moral standards is the standards of
aesthetics.
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