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CHAPTER 1
UNDERSTANDING MORAL
SUBJECT : Moral Education (MPU

2313) PREPARED BY : Sakinaa
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Why be moral?
Everyday, you have to choose between :

1. What you want and the interest of others
2. Your desire and other people’s desire.
Should other people matter?

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Moral values
Moral values are one basis on which we make
decisions–right or wrong? good or evil? Other
bases are financial, convenient, aesthetic (an
artist), arbitrary (flipping a coin),
physical/health, rational (investigating a product
before buying).

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• Morality has to do with the way we live our

lives.
• Morality helps us to judge the difference
between right and wrong.
• Once we know the difference between the two,
we can do what is right and avoid what is
wrong.

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• We are human beings.

• We are able to think about our behavior in
order to decide what to say and what to do in any
given situation.
• When we encounter moral situations, we can
either act in a way that we know is right, or we
can do the opposite and act in a way that we
know to be wrong.
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Difference between moral and ethics?
- Morals are principles and values based on

what a person or society believes are right,
proper or acceptable ways of behaving.
- Ethics are the series provided to and individual
by an, e.g their external source profession or
religion.
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Types of moral values

• Personal values: values endorsed by an
individual.
• For example, some people regard family as
their most important values, and structure their
lives so that they can spend more time with
their family. Other people might value success
instead, and give less time to their families in
order to achieve their goals.
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• Moral values: values that help determine what

is morally right or wrong.
• For example : freedom, fairness, equality, etc,
well-being. Those which are used to evaluate
social institutions are sometimes also known
as political values.

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• Aesthetic values: values associated with the

evaluation of artwork or beauty.
Examples : Appreciating the art pieces created
by someone.

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Examples of moral values

1. Unconditional Love and Kindness:
• In most cases, if you love someone, he or she
will love you back in return. This, however, is
not the real meaning of love. Love should be
unconditional. With more love in the world,
kindness will follow and replace cruelty.

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2. Honesty:
• Students must be taught that dishonesty and
cheating are wrong, and will get you nowhere
in the future. As a student, one is only hurting
himself or herself by cheating, because this
action will eventually catch up to you in the
end with bad consequences.

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3. Hard Work:
• When I was young, I learned that success was
one percent inspiration and 99 percent
perspiration. Nowadays, so many students
want to cheat and cut corners in their studies
because they are lazy and don't place any value
on hard work. This thinking must definitely
change.
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4. Respect For Others:

• Unfortunately, in our highly competitive dog
eat dog society, many people will tread on
others to get ahead in life. Respect for others
should include respecting different religions,
races, sexes, ideas, and life styles.

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5. Co-operation:
• To achieve a common goal, it is necessary for
all people to work together. If this is not done,
a few people may profit, but the end result for
everyone will be a failure. I still believe in the
motto, "united we stand and divided we fall."

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6. Compassion:
• Compassion is defined as being sensitive to the
needs of people. If there were more
compassion in the world, there would be less
homeless, hunger, wars, and unhappiness.

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• While morals or morality refers to customs,

ethics extend to mean habitual conduct or
character.
• Morality deals with our reasoning, ethics deals
with our doing.
• Ethics is the study of what is right or good in
human conduct or character.

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• Examples of morality ?
- Is killing Immoral?
- Is downloading copyrighted material from a
website immoral?
- Is undercutting someone else work immoral?

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• It is unlikely for any civilized society to

continue living unless it concerned about key
moral values such as fairness, justice,
truthfulness and comparisons.
• Ethics are important because they give
direction to people and societies who have
some sense that they cannot flourish without
moral.
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• Normative statements
• What are ‘normative ethics’?

- about deeds = Judgments of moral obligation
- About people = Judgments of moral value

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- Creating or evaluating moral standards. The
disciplines that produces more moral norms or
rules as the end product.
- Attempt to figure out what people should do or
whether their current moral behaviors is
reasonable.

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• May include articulating the good habits we

should acquire and the duties we have to
follow.
• This action is wrong in this society, but it is
right in another.
• Concerned with the content of moral
judgments and the criteria for what is right or
wrong
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Questions usually asked in Normative ethics
• What should be our moral obligations?

• What is right and what is wrong?
• What should be our moral values?
• What is Good and what is Evil?

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• What will you do if you witnessed a friend

stealing ?
• You are in teacher’s room and you saw the
final exam paper is out in plain sight ?
• You find a pair of expensive sunglasses on a
table ?

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Exercise :
1. Think about these situations.

• You witnessed a friend stealing ?
• You are in teacher’s room and you saw the
final exam paper is out in plain sight ?
• You find a pair of expensive sunglasses on a
table ?
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- As a student, how would you respond to

situation like these?
- Describe your action against these situation?

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IPK COLLEGE

1664, JALAN KULIM, 14020 BUKIT MERTAJAM, PENANG

SUBJECT : Moral Education (MPU

Everyday, you have to choose between :

Should other people matter?

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• Morality has to do with the way we live our

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• We are human beings.

Difference between moral and ethics?

- Morals are principles and values based on

SUBJECT : Moral Education

SUBJECT : Moral Education

Types of moral values

• Moral values: values that help determine what

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• Aesthetic values: values associated with the

SUBJECT : Moral Education

Examples of moral values

SUBJECT : Moral Education

SUBJECT : Moral Education

4. Respect For Others:

SUBJECT : Moral Education

SUBJECT : Moral Education

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• While morals or morality refers to customs,

SUBJECT : Moral Education

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• It is unlikely for any civilized society to

• What are ‘normative ethics’?

SUBJECT : Moral Education

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• May include articulating the good habits we

Questions usually asked in Normative ethics

• What should be our moral obligations?

SUBJECT : Moral Education

• What will you do if you witnessed a friend

SUBJECT : Moral Education

1. Think about these situations.

- As a student, how would you respond to

SUBJECT : Moral Education

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