LM - ETHICS 101.docx1

PAMANTASAN NG CABUYAO
College of Computing and Engineering

Katapatan Subd. Banay-Banay, City of Cabuyao, Laguna
I. TOPIC TO BE DISCUSSED:
● Feelings and Reason
II. OBJECTIVES:
1. Understand the feelings and reason.
2. Understand how feelings and reason affect the individual for being ethical or unethical.
3. Identify the ethical and unethical behavior.
4. Identify the factors that affect to the feelings and reason.
III. INTRODUCTION
We humans have our own feelings. Therefore, all the decisions we make must be well thought
out first so that other people will not be affected by the possible outcome of our decision. Each
person also has reasons for what decision they make. In our report, you will see and know what
can help you when you come to the point where you have difficulty deciding on specific thing or
an event. We know that not all people will like our decisions in life as long as we think about
what is right so that we will definitely hurt others feeling. Hopefully you may learn something
from listening to our report.
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IV. TITLE
Feelings and Reason:

Upsurge of Feeling is Natural and What we do with them is What makes us Ethical
or Unethical and the Ethical requirements of Reason and Impartiality
V. BODY
WHAT IS ETHICAL AND UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Ethical and unethical behavior can be defined as actions that are against social norms or acts that are
considered unacceptable to the public. Ethical behavior is the complete opposite of unethical
behavior. Ethical behavior follows the majority of social norms and such actions are acceptable to the
public.
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
 Takes responsibility
 Shows respect for individuals
 Encourages & develops follower
 Serves others
 Stands up for what is right
 Possesses Humility
 Maintains concern for greater goods
 Honest and trustworthy
 Fulfills commitment
 Strives for fairness
UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR
 Shifts blame to others
 Diminishes other’s dignity
 Neglects follower development
 Withholds help and support
 Silence against the masses
 Arrogant & Self-serving
 Excessively promotes self-interest
 Deceptive
 Breaches agreements
 Deals unfairly
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FEELINGS DEFINED
Are the mental associations and reactions to emotions which originate in the neocortical regions of

the brain, and are subjective being influenced by personal experience, beliefs and memories. These
are next thing that happens after having an emotion, involve cognitive input, usually subconscious
and cannot be measured precisely.
REASON DEFINED
Reason is a form of personal justification which changes from person to person based on their own

ethical and moral code, as well as prior experience. It stands for the faculties of rational reflection,
sensations and experience, memory and inference, and any judgments that may be exercised without
relying on a religious faith that is unsupported by reason.
FEELING AND REASON INTERWINED
 Feelings are not limited to good and bad, happy and sad moods. They also influence
judgments, and hence decisions, with feelings as mild as contentment, safety,
and perceived ease or difficulty of tasks to be faced. In short, they mess with our thinking
minds in all sorts of ways.
 “Sensitivity requires rationality to complete it, and vice versa. There is no siding onto which
emotions can be shunted so as not to impinge on thought.” - Mary Midgley.
 Plato saw reason and emotion as two horses pulling a chariot, with the charioteer

struggling to make them work as a team.
 Emotion is not the opposite of reason. It is a different form of it. Emotion is always prompting

us to serve and advance our needs and interests.
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EMOTION VS. FEELING
Essentially, emotions are physical and instinctive. While they are complex and involve a variety of
physical and cognitive responses (many of which are not well understood), their general purpose is
to produce a specific response to a stimulus. Emotions can be powerful experiences, but they usually
do not last long. They sometimes make us do things we later regret. - Today, we are angry at
a colleague and want to yell at her. Tomorrow, we wish we had acted more rationally, no matter how
compelling our desire was at the time. By transforming goals and desires in the heat of the
moment, emotions can lead us to make choices that hurt our long-term interests. Doing something
that you do not want to do is one of the hallmarks of irrationality - hence, emotions make us irrational.
WHEN REASON OVERRULED FEELING
We rely on our reason to guard against feelings that may reflect a bias, or a sense of inadequacy, or
a desire simply to win an argument, and also to refine and explain a felt conviction that passes the
test of critical reflection and discussion. We rely on feelings to move us to act morally, and to ensure
that our reasoning is not only logical but also humane.
WHEN EMOTION OVERRULED REASON
Emotion creates a strong opinion that is hard for reason to overcome when emotion takes over it
is hard to think of the consequences of one’s actions. It can also be constructive when working by
itself in the decision making process.
EMOTION ALONE
When emotion is left as the only way of knowing used to make ethical decisions, these decisions are
often made with little to no regard to the consequences of our actions. However, when faced with a
situation where one has prior experience, the emotions that are used to make a decision have been
tested before, thus providing a solid ground for ethical decision-making. Paul Ekman devised six
basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
REASON ALONE
Reason, when removed from emotion, allows a person to make conscious decisions based on fact,
with no reference to personal involvement. The use of reason as a way of knowing, allows for the
knower to see the consequences of their actions throughout the decision-making process. There are
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limitations to decisions made based on reason alone, perception of situations is not questioned as it
may be with an emotional decision.

REFERENCES
https://pages.stolaf.edu/ein/themes/emotions-andreason/?
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https://doingethics.com/Blog/2008/05/reason-andfeelings.html?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19105511
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PAMANTASAN NG CABUYAO

College of Computing and Engineering

College of Computing and Engineering

Feelings and Reason:

WHAT IS ETHICAL AND UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Are the mental associations and reactions to emotions which originate in the neocortical regions of

Reason is a form of personal justification which changes from person to person based on their own

FEELING AND REASON INTERWINED

 Plato saw reason and emotion as two horses pulling a chariot, with the charioteer

 Emotion is not the opposite of reason. It is a different form of it. Emotion is always prompting

WHEN REASON OVERRULED FEELING

WHEN EMOTION OVERRULED REASON

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