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This document outlines a Philosophy 3 Ethics course at La Salle University in Ozamis City. The 3-unit course covers principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. It discusses morality and frameworks for ethical analysis and decision-making. Key topics include cultural influences, moral development stages, reasoning models, and virtue, rights, and utilitarian ethics theories. Assessment focuses on distinguishing moral issues and using frameworks to evaluate experiences and make principled judgments.

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Course Outline Ethics

This document outlines a Philosophy 3 Ethics course at La Salle University in Ozamis City. The 3-unit course covers principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. It discusses morality and frameworks for ethical analysis and decision-making. Key topics include cultural influences, moral development stages, reasoning models, and virtue, rights, and utilitarian ethics theories. Assessment focuses on distinguishing moral issues and using frameworks to evaluate experiences and make principled judgments.

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La Salle University

Ozamis City
College of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy Department

I. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Subject: Philosophy 3
Descriptive Title: Ethics
Unit Credit: 3 Units
Pre-Requisite: None

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION

Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of
the person, society, and interaction with the environment and other shared resources.

Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an individual originally
picks up from the community. The course discusses the context and principles of
ethical behavior in modern society at the level of individual, society, and in the
interaction with the environment and other shared resources. The course also teaches
students to make moral decisions by using dominant moral frameworks and by
applying a seven-step moral reasoning model to analyze and solve moral dilemmas.

The course is organized according to the (3) three main elements of the moral
experience: (a) agent, including context – cultural, communal, and environment; (b)
the act; and (c) reason or framework (for the act).

III. DESIRED LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, the students will be able to:


1. Differentiate between moral and non-moral problems
2. Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of human
existence.
3. Explain the influence of Filipino culture on the way students look at moral
experiences and solve moral dilemmas.
4. Describe the elements of moral development and moral experience.
5. Use ethical frameworks or principles to analyze moral experiences.
6. Make sound ethical judgments based on the principles, facts, and the people
affected.
7. Develop sensitivity to the common good.
8. Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at
the level of the person, society, and in interaction with the environment and other
shared resources.

IV. COURSE OUTLINE

PRELIM

Introduction: Key Concepts

This section addresses the following questions:


 What are moral standards, and how do they differ from other rules of lives?
 What is a moral dilemma?
 Why is freedom crucial in our ability to make moral decisions?

A. Introductory Concepts
1. What is Ethics?
2. Types of Ethics
3. Moral versus Non-moral Standards
4. What are moral dilemmas?
5. Foundation of Morality: Freedom-Responsibility for One’s Act and Others
6. Minimum Requirement for Morality: Reason and Impartiality

B. The Human Person


1. Who is the human person?
2. What does it mean to be moral?
3. Respect for the Dignity of Human Person

MIDTERM

Part I: The Moral Agent

This section addresses the following questions:

 How does culture shape moral behavior?


 Why should culture not be the ultimate determinant of values?
 Is there a Filipino understanding of right and wrong? Why this interpretation? What
are its influences?

A. Culture and Moral Behavior


1. Culture and its role in moral behavior
2. What is Cultural Relativism? Why is it not tenable in ethics?
3. Reflecting on the Filipino Culture
4. Culture as a Contested Site and as a Site of Contestation

B. The Moral Agent: Moral Character Development and its Stages


1. Moral Character and its Development
2. Stages of Moral Development
a. Lawrence Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
b.Carol Gilligan’s Phases of Moral Development

PRE-FINALS

Part II: The Act

This section addresses the following questions:

 What is the role of feelings in moral decisions? What are the disadvantages of
overreliance on feelings?
 How can we make reasoned and impartial decisions?
 Why is reason not enough in carrying out moral decisions?

A. The Human Action as a Hermeneutic Response to a Moral Experience


1. Differentiating Moral Experience from other species of experience
2. Acts of Man vs. Human Action

B. Feelings and Moral Decision-Making


1. Feelings as instinctive and trained response to moral dilemmas
a. Why they can be obstacles in making the right decisions
b. How they can help in making right decisions

C. Reason and Impartiality as Minimum Requirements for Morality


1. Reason and Impartiality defined
2. The 7-step moral reasoning model

D. Moral Courage
1. Why the will is as important as reason
2. Developing the will

FINALS
Part III: Frameworks and Principles Behind our Moral Disposition Frameworks

This section addresses the following questions:


 What are the overarching frameworks that dictate the way we make our individual
moral decisions?
 What is my framework in making my decisions?

A. Virtue Ethics
1. Aristotle
a. Telos
b. Virtue as Habit
c. Happiness as virtue
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
a. The natural and its tenets
b. happiness as constitutive of moral and cardinal virtues

B. Kant and Right Theorists


1. Kant
a. Goodwill
b. Categorical Imperative
2. Different Kinds of Rights

C. Utilitarianism
1. Jeremy Bentham
a. Principle of Utility
b. Hedonistic Calculus
c. Act-Utilitarianism
d. Objections to Bentham’s Utilitarianism
2. John Stuart Mill
a. Hierarchy of Pleasures
b. Rule Utilitarianism
c. Objections to Mill’s Utilitarianism

(Adapted from CHED suggested syllabi for the new general education core courses)

V. LIST OF REFERENCES

1. Arambala, G., et.al. General Ethics An Introduction. Marilao, Bulacan: Subverso


Publishing House, 2018.

2. Barbara MacKinnon and Andrew Fiala. Ethics: Theories and Contemporary Issues.
USA: Cengage Learning, 2015.

3. Maboloc, Christopher Ryan. Ethics and Human Dignity. Sampaloc, Manila: Rex Book
Store, Inc., 2010.
4. Pasco, M., et.al. Ethics. South Triangle, Quezon City: C&E Publishing, Inc., 2018.

VI. CONSULTATION TIME: 4:00 – 5:00 P.M. (MWF and TTH) AT PHILOSOPHY DEPT.

Prepared: Recommending Approval:

Rhiza Mae D. Arambala Gerry F. Arambala


Instructor Program Head, Philosophy Dept.

Approved:

Mr. Noel C. Alamin


CAS Dean

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