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ETHICS Syllabus

This course introduces students to ethics and moral reasoning. It discusses principles of ethical behavior at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. The course is organized around three elements: the moral agent and how culture shapes values, moral acts and how feelings and reason influence decisions, and ethical frameworks like virtue ethics and utilitarianism that guide moral judgments. Students will analyze moral dilemmas, develop skills in impartial decision-making, and address challenges to ethics from pluralism. Assessment includes class participation, journaling, presentations and exams. The goal is for students to understand and apply ethical concepts and frameworks to make principled moral decisions.

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ETHICS Syllabus

This course introduces students to ethics and moral reasoning. It discusses principles of ethical behavior at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. The course is organized around three elements: the moral agent and how culture shapes values, moral acts and how feelings and reason influence decisions, and ethical frameworks like virtue ethics and utilitarianism that guide moral judgments. Students will analyze moral dilemmas, develop skills in impartial decision-making, and address challenges to ethics from pluralism. Assessment includes class participation, journaling, presentations and exams. The goal is for students to understand and apply ethical concepts and frameworks to make principled moral decisions.

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ETHICS (GE08)

Course Description:

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 s 2013)
Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an individual originally picks
up from the community. The course discusses the context and principles of ethical behavior
in modern society at the level of individual, society, and in interaction with the environment
and other shared resources. The course also teaches students to make moral decisions by
using dominant moral frameworks and by applying a seven-step moral reasoning model to
analyze and solve moral dilemmas.
The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral
experience: (a) agent, including context — cultural, communal, and environmental; (b) the
act; and (c) reason or framework (for the act).

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the students must be able to.
1. Differentiate between moral and non-moral problems
2 Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of human existence
3 Explain the influence of Filipino culture on the way students look at moral experiences
and solve moral dilemmas
4 Describe the elements of moral development and moral experience
5 Use ethical frameworks or principles to analyze moral experiences
6. Make sound ethical judgments based on principles, facts, and the stakeholders affected
7. Develop sensitivity to the common good
8 Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the
level of the person, society, and in interaction with the environment and other shared
resources

Number of Hours: 3 hours every week for 18 weeks or 48 hours in a semester

Course Outline:

The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral
experience: agent (to include context — cultural, communal, and environmental); the act;
and reason or framework (for the act).
Introduction: Key Concepts (6 hours)
This section addresses the following questions:
What are moral standards, and how do they differ from other rules of lives?
What is a moral dilemma?
Why is freedom crucial in our ability to make moral decisions?
What is the advantage of owning moral standards (morality and ethics) over merely
abiding by moral standards?
A. Basic Concepts
a. Moral vs. non-moral standards
b. What are dilemmas?
c. Three levels of moral dilemmas (individual, organizational, systemic)
d. Foundation of morality: Freedom-responsibility for one's act and to others
e. Minimum requirement for morality: Reason and impartiality

Part l: The Moral Agent (12 hours)


This section addresses the following questions.
How does culture shape moral behavior?
Why should culture not be the ultimate determinant of values?
Is there a Filipino understanding of right and wrong? Why this interpretation? What
are its influences?

A. Culture in Moral Behavior


1. Culture and its role in moral behavior
2. What is cultural relativism? Why is it not tenable in ethics?
3. Are there an Asian and a Filipino understanding of moral behavior? Strengths
and weaknesses?
B. The Moral Agent: Developing Virtue as Habit
1. How is a moral character developed? The circular relation of acts that build
character and acts that emanate from character
2. Moral development
a. The stages of moral development

b. How do we get to the highest level,


conscience-based moral decisions?
Part Il: The Act
This section addresses the following questions:
• What is the role of feelings in moral decisions? What are the disadvantages of over-
reliance on feelings?
• How can we make reasoned and impartial decisions?
• Why is reason not enough in carrying out moral decisions?

A. Feelings and moral decision-making


1. Feelings as instinctive and trained response to moral dilemmas
- Why they can be obstacles to
making the right decisions -
How they can help in making
the right decisions

B. Reason and Impartiality as Minimum requirements for Morality


1. Reason and impartiality defined
2. The 7-step moral reasoning model

C. Moral courage
1. Why the will is as important as reason
2. Developing the will

Part Ill: Frameworks and Principles Behind our Moral Disposition


Frameworks
This section addresses the following questions:
What are the overarching frameworks that dictate the way we make our
individual moral decisions?
What is my framework in making my decisions?
A. Virtue Ethics
1. Aristotle
a) Telos
b) Virtue as habit
c) Happiness as virtue
2. St. Tomas: Natural law
a) The natural and its tenets
b) Happiness as constitutive of moral and cardinal virtues
B. Kant and Rights Theorists
1. Kant
a) Good will
b) Categorical imperative
2. Different kinds of rights
a) Legal
b) Moral
C. Utilitarianism
1. Origins and nature of theory
2. Business's fascination with utilitarianism

D. Justice and Fairness: Promoting the Common Good


1. The Nature of the theory
2. Distributive Justice
a) Egalitarian
b) Capitalist
c) Socialist
3. The State and Citizens: Responsibilities to each other

Conclusion: Ethics through Thick and Thin, and Ethics and Religion
This section addresses the following questions:
• What are the challenges to ethical behavior in today's world?
• Is it still meaningful to search for universal values?
• How do we respond to an increasingly pluralist and individualist globalized world?

A. The Challenges of Pluralism and Fundamentalism: The Search for Universal Values
1. Globalization and pluralism: New challenges to Ethics
2. Challenges of Filinnials
3. The Religious Response: The Role of Religion in Ethics

Course Requirements:
1. Regular class participation/ recitation/ attendance
2. Individual activities/ outputs
3. Journal Entries and Reflection papers
4. Individual and Group Presentations
5. Mid Term Exam/ Finals

Prepared by: Adrian B. Regalado


RTU CAS- Social Sciences Dept.

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