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Ethics refers to moral principles that guide behavior and determine what is good or bad. Morality involves applying ethical theories to real-life situations and determining right from wrong actions. While ethics provides theoretical understanding, morality puts ethics into practice through actions. Ethics outlines moral theories, and morality translates those theories into actions.

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Ethics refers to moral principles that guide behavior and determine what is good or bad. Morality involves applying ethical theories to real-life situations and determining right from wrong actions. While ethics provides theoretical understanding, morality puts ethics into practice through actions. Ethics outlines moral theories, and morality translates those theories into actions.

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ETHICS

Learning Outcomes

• During the learning engagement, you should be able to


• expound the meanings/concepts of ethics and morality,
• interpret issues and situations that have moral and ethical bearings
explaining them in the light of ethical theories, and
• deepen your understanding by creating a reflective essay on ethics and
morality.
MODULE 1: Introduction to Key Concepts
Topic 1: Ethics: Its Meaning, Nature , and Scope

• Morality is a system of beliefs about what is right behavior and wrong behavior (Rubin,
2015).

• deals with how a person relates with others and with the world to promote what is good
(Thiroux and Krasemann, 2009).

• Dr. James Rachels——asserted that at the very least morality is the effort to guide one’s
conduct by reason—to act based on the best reasons for doing—while giving equal
weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s decision (Rachels, 2015).
Activity 1: Diagnostic Exercises (10 min)
Individual
Direction: Answer the following questions briefly:
1. What is ethics?
2. What is morality?
3. What are the similarities and differences between ethics
and morality?
Activity 2: Cooperative Group Learning
Instructions:
1. After doing Activity 1, brainstorm the meaning of ethics
and morality with their differences and similarities.
2. Assign a group representative to report the output in a
form of a concept map/word web.
3. Your teacher will give a lecturette (see Ethics:
Fernandez) to process your group’s output.
Activity 3 : Quotation Analysis
Direction: Work in a group to elucidate with examples on
the line provided below.
As ethics outlines theories of right and wrong and good
or bad actions, morality translates these theories into real
actions. Thus, morality is nothing else but a doing (or the
practice) of ethics (Babor 1999:9).
Processing
• Etymologically, the word ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos
which can be roughly translated in English as “custom” or “a particular way
and manner of acting and behaving.”
• Thus, custom would also mean here as a form of behavior or character.
• The Latin equivalent for custom is “mos” or “mores”.
• It is from this root word that the term “moral” or “morality” is derived
(Agapay 2008:1).
• The two terms, ethics and morality, in this sense, therefore,
have literally the same meaning.
• That is why ethics is usually taken as synonymous with
morality.
• Also because of this, ethics is also called morality, or more
precisely, the other name of ethics is morality.
Ethics and Morality Distinguished
• Generally, both ethics and morality deal with the goodness or badness, rightness or
wrongness of the human act or human conduct.

• “But in ethics, we specifically study morality.

• Morality gives ethics a particular perspective of what to study about—that is, the
rectitude of whether an act is good or bad, right or wrong.

• Morality provides a quality that determines and distinguishes right conduct from wrong
conduct” (Sambajon 2007:7).
Ethics: A Philosophy of Action

• While ethics arms the person with a theoretical


knowledge of the morality of human acts, so he/she
may know what to do as well as how to do it, there is
a whole world of difference between knowing and
doing, knowledge and action.
• Hence, we can say that both of them—ethics and
morality—truly need and complement each other.
“As ethics outlines theories of right and wrong and
good or bad actions, morality translates these
theories into real actions. Thus, morality is nothing
else but a doing (or the practice) of ethics” (Babor
1999, 9).
Synthesis
• In this lesson, we discuss the similarities and differences of ethics
and morality. We also clarified some of the terms that will be used
in the study of ethics. We have explored a number of problematic
ways of thinking of ethics; some give a too simplistic answer to
the question of our grounds or foundations for moral valuation,
while others seem to dismiss the possibility of ethics altogether.

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