TOPICS
A. Moral Dilemma
a. What is Moral Dilemma Group 1
b. 3 Different Levels of Moral Dilemma
B. Moral Assumptions (Foundation of Morality)
a. What is moral assumption
b. The assumptions of ethics or morality
The differences between moral or ethical, immoral, or
unethical and amoral situations.
C. The Minimum Requirement (Elements) of Morality:
Reason and Impartiality
D. Standards of Moral Valuation Based on the Self
a. Subjectivism Group 2
b. Criticism
c. Psychological Egoism
d. Ethical Egoism
A. Culture and Its Roles in Moral Behavior
a. Cultural Elements
b. The Role of Culture in Moral Development
B. Cultural Relativism
a. What is Cultural Relativism Group 3 and 4
b. Why Cultural Relativism is Appealing
c. Consequences of Cultural Relativism
d. Difficulties of Cultural Relativism
e. Why we cannot absolutize Cultural Relativism
C. Is there a Filipino Culture
a. Difficulties of Identifying the Filipino Culture
b. Source of Cultural Identity
c. Being critical about our practices
D. Culture and Its Roles in Moral Behavior
c. Cultural Elements
d. The Role of Culture in Moral Development
E. The Moral Development Stages of the Moral Agent
a. The Levels and Stages of Moral Development by
Lawrence Kohlberg
F. The Moral Agent and Contexts
The Four Cross-points Group 5
A. Feelings and Moral Decision-Making
a. Role of Emotions in Moral Actions
B. The 7-Step Moral Reasoning Model
A. Virtue Ethics
a. Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
b. Arete (Virtue) as Moral Excellence
c. Virtue as the Golden Mean (Nicomachean Ethics
A. The Natural Law Ethics Theory
a. The Natural and its Tenets Group 6
b. The Context of Aquinas’ Ethics
c. Criticisms of the Natural Law
B. Kant’s Deontology
a. Formulations of Deontology
b. The distinction between a Perfect Duty and an
Imperfect Duty
c. Kantian Ethical Principles
d. Criticisms of the Kantian Ethics
C. Utilitarianism
a. The Principle of Utility
b. The Principle of the Greatest number
c. Justice and Moral Rights
d. Criticisms of Utilitarianism
D. Rawls’ Theory of Justice
a. Background of Rawls’s Theory of Justice or Group 7
Fairness
b. John Rawls’s Justice as Fairness
A. Globalization and Its Moral Repercussions
a. What is Globalization
b. Pros and Cons of Globalization
B. Relation Between Ethics and Religion
C. Ethics and the Environment
a. Humans as Stewards of the Earth Group 8
b. How Industrialization and Globalization Harm the
Environment and Morality?
D. Morality and Fairness and Its Relation to the Modern
System of Justice and
E. Taxation
a. Theory and Bases of Taxation
F. Fillinials and Morality