VIRTUE PRINCIPLE

CHOICE

ETHICS
FAIRNESS

JUSTICE FREEDOM
 MODULE 1 WHAT IS
ETHICS?

Learning Activity

ACTIVITY 1 WORD FINDER

Directions: Find the terms (Horizontally, Vertically, Diagonally) related to the course and define each
term.

E N Q Z E T T E M X
C T S Q H V H T H I
B Z I W Q B W H E C
Q T Q Q X M X I D S
E U X B U N Z C L Z
S Q A T U E E S J D
T W H Z G Q T S N A
Y V X I Q O D T Q R
R P R B C U T Q E D
M O R A L S S Z C S
J Z D Q L F K M L N
L K P Y K J T R C M

1. ETHICS - it described as the empirical study of moral decisions. It is a discipline

concerned with what is morally good and evil. It is the study of the choices people make
regarding right and wrong.

2. MORALS - The practice of conduct in living own personal sense of the right and wrong. It
is what you think is good and bad personally.

3. ETIQUETTE - It is the set of rules of personal behavior in polite society.

 ACTIVITY 2

1. Interview with fellow student and ask him or her of the significance of ethics to himself or herself. Compare
your notes with other students. List down at least 5 examples of moral standards and non-moral standards and
explain why such samples belong to moral standards and non-morals standards.

" Ethics is a conception of what is right and wrong and also, what is good and bad. It tells us when our behaviour is
moral or immoral. It is deals with fundamental relationships, like how we think or decide to one thing and behave
towards others and how we want them to think and behave towards us. It is serve as a guide to moral daily living and
help us judge whether our behavior can be justified. It is refers to the society sense of the right way of living our daily
lives. It is establishing rules, principles and values on which we can base our conduct. Ethics has great significance in
our life or in our daily living because it helps to us and it serves as a guide on how we judge and decide on our actions.
It is really essential in attaining deeper and broader understanding of what is righteous and what it is not. It helps me to
perceive things and events in my life. Understanding ethics doesn't mean or equal to gaining all knowledge to
understand all aspects of life. But ethics is a good guide to understanding it in more critical way. Without ethics our
actions would be random and aimless." - Jayzel Torres

Ethics is important for me in my daily lives. It would guide me to always consider goodness in every decision and
action I make. It helps me to understand what is wrong and right things to do and also differentiate what is the good
from evil actions. Ethics is the choices in my every decision making. Even I suffered from many consequences
because of chosen the things that I think it is good but in reality and in favor of God it is bad. But still ethics is there
because I am the one who responsible to accept my mistakes. Even I am the one who did that mistakes I always
lead to the right thing , for me and to other people not get in trouble and live with a peaceful life.- Ailyn C. Española

We both agreed that ethics is important and it is the partners in life. It is the guide in our daily lives. The way on how we decide
everyday we feel the presence of ethics. And also, she said that without ethics, our action would be random and aimless and that is right
because for me it is how we develop ourselves because ethics is the one of the ingredients to be a successfull one.
 Learning Assessment

ESSAY: QUESTIONS TO PONDER:

1. Discuss ethics and its importance to you being a student, a daughter or son and as a
citizen of this nation.
 Ethics is refers to the societies sense of the right way of living our daily lives. It is very
important for me as a student, a daughter and as a citizen of this nation because it has a large
influence on today and as well as the future. For me, hoping to be a professional analyst, it is
the guide to success and help me to judge whether my behavior can be justified. Doing the
right and wrong is the practice that challenge me everyday because I'm afraid on
consequences. But instead, ethics is still their because behind my mistakes I learned to accept
those mistakes properly without anyone harm
2. Differentiate moral standards and non-moral standards and cite some examples.

 Moral Standards Vs. Non Moral Standards

 MORAL STANDARDS
 It is the kind of actions believed to be morally right or wrong
 Refer to the guideline we have on the types of acts that we find to be morally pernissible and morally
unaccepted.
 Normally promote the common good, that is the welfare and well-being of human beings, animals and
environment.
 It is the blending of norms and values.

Example : " ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH " - it is moral because it is the action that you decide what
you only to do is the good.
" DON'T HARM INNOCENT PEOPLE " -this is the decision you know that harming innocent people is
bad.
" KEEP YOUR PROMISES" - the decision that anyone can do the right because this is the way on how
they believe to someone.

 NON MORAL STANDARDS

 It refers to standard by which we judge what is good or bad and right or wrong in a non moral way
 It apply to laws which are not related to social or legal considerations.
 It is not inherently related to morality
 It is Lack of ethical sense

Example . " DO NOT DRIVE WHILE TEXTING" - this is the action that if we judge this thing, it is bad
according to law because it can cause harm to others.
" DON' TALK WHILE YOUR MOUTH IS FULL " - you can judge the person do this reverse is don't
have manners .

3. Specify the characteristics of moral standards.

 1. Moral standards entail serious harm or benefit.
 2. Moral standards are not determined by authority figures.
 3. Moral standard should be adopted over other values including self-interest.
  4. Moral standards are focused on objective considerations.
 5. Moral standards are perceived to be universal.
 6. Moral standards are correlated with different feelings and vocabulary.

4. How moral standards are formed? Discuss further.

 Morals are shaped by the beliefs of an individual. It formed out of a person's values. Values are
the foundation of a person's ability to judge between right and wrong. It is the capacity of an
individual to distinguish between right and wrong. Morals formed from the experience of a
people's life and are subject to opinion. It build on this to form concrete, context driven rules that
regulate the actions of an individual.

Essay Rubrics

Rubrics Essay

Level of Achievement

Criteria Excellent Good Fair Poor Score

Focus and There is one s pecific, There is one clear, well- There is one topic, but The topic and main
Details well-focused topi c. focused topic. Main ideas main ideas ideas are not clear.
Main ideas are clear are clear but are not are not especially clear.
and are well s upported supported by detai led
by detailed and accurate informat on or facts.
informations.
 Organization The introduction is The introducti on states The introduction s tates There is no clear
inviting, states the the main topic and the main introduction, structure, or
main topic, and provides provides an overview of topic. A conclusion is conclusion.
an overview of the the paper. A conclusion is included, but
argument. Information included, but does not is not especially
is relevant and strengthen the relevant/supportive.
presented in logical argument/position.
order. The conclusion is
strong.
Voice The author’s purpose of The author’s purpose of The author’s purpose of The author’s purpose of
writing is very clear, writing is somewhat clear, writing is somewhat clear, writing is unclear.
and there is strong and there is some and there is
evidence of attention to evdence of attention to evidence of
audience. The author’s audience. The author’s attention to audience. The
knowledge of and/or knowledge of and/or author’s knowledge of the
experience with the experience with the topic topic seems limited.
topic is evident. is evident.
Word Choice The author uses vivid The author uses vivid The author uses words The writer uses a
words and phrases . words and that l imi ted vocabul ary.
The choice and phrases . The choice and communicate Jargon or clichés are not
placement of words placement of words is clearl y, but the used properly and detract
seems accurate, natural , inaccurate at times and/or writing lacks from the meaning.
and appropriate. seems overdone or variety and seems
inappropriate for the i nappropriate to the
subject matter. subject matter.
Sentence Al l sentences are well- Most sentences are well Mos t sentences are well Sentences sound
Structure, constructed and have constructed and have constructed, but they have awkward, are distracti
Grammar, varied structure and varied structure and length. a similar structure and/or ngly
Mechanics, length. The author The author makes a few length. The author makes repetitive, or are difficu t
&Spelling makes very few errors in grammar, several errors to understand. The
errors in grammar, mechanics, and/or spelling, in grammar, mechanics, author
mechanics, and/or but these mistakes do not and/or spelling that makes numerous errors
spelling. interfere with understandi interfere with in grammar, mechanics ,
ng. understanding. and/or spelling that
interfere with understand
ng.
Scoring 4 3 2 1

Learning References

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