Ethics

Ethics

by Albert Rosario

​Philosophy, is rooted in the greek PHILOS SOPHIA word that translate love for wisdom. The word philosophy had been first used by thinkers to refer to their striving to better understand reality in a maintained and systematic manner. Other than metaphysics. there are other branches of philosphy.

​The following are words often mistakenly associated with or synonymous to ethics.

​The following are pictures. You are to analyze the said pictures and provide the correct answer.

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

The picture shows.

• Aesthetics.

• Table manners

• utensil language

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

The picture shows a failure in 

• Teaching 

• Ethics.

• Morality

• None of the above.

​When a situation calls for a moral valuation. It can be called a situation which has a moral issue.

​When one is placed in a situation and confronted with a choice of what act to perform, she/he is called to make a moral decision.

​Choosing between right over wrong, or good over bad, and considering instead the more complicated situation wherein one is torn between choosing one of two goods or choosing the lesser of two evils; this is referred to as a moral dilemma.

​Ethics is studied in two senses.:

​1. Descriptive study of ethics, reports how people normally groups, make their moral valuations without making any judgment either for or against these valuations.

​2. Normative study of ethics, as is often done in philosophy or modern theology, engages the question; What could and should be considered as the right way of acting?

​Why do we suppose that a certain way of acting is right and its opposite wrong? What reasons do we give to decide or to judge that a certain way of acting is either right or wrong?

​Our reasons are the result of interplay of the following concepts:

​1. Principles, rationally established grounds by which one justifies and maintains her moral decisions and judgments.

​2. A moral theory is a systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining certain moral principles. It is also known as frame work.

Open Ended

Should the bible and society be modified, to allow society to accept deviants?