Module 1: Preliminary Notions

Question 1

True or False:
Ethics talks about good and bad.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Ethics comes from what Greek word that means custom, usage, character?

Answer 2

Ethos

Question 3

What is the Latin equivalent to Ethos?

Answer 3

Mores

Question 4

What is the etymological word of Ethos and Mores?

Answer 4

Ethos = Ethics
Mores = Morals

Question 5

Who and When:
According to ___________, the word morals may be used to refer to specific beliefs or attitudes that people have to describe the acts that people perform.

Answer 5

Bulaong, et al. (2017)

Question 6

It refer to specific beliefs or attitudes that people have to describe acts that people perform.

Answer 6

Morals

Question 7

If an individual falls short behaving properly, what do you call that?

Answer 7

Immoral

Question 8

This term can be spoken of as the discipline of studying and understanding the ideal of human behavior and ideal ways of thinking.

Answer 8

Ethics

Question 9

This term is mostly used on ways of behaving in a given field.

Answer 9

Professional Ethics

Question 10

True or False:
The distinction between ethics and morals could not clarify different dimensions of our lives.

Answer 10

False (It can clarify different dimensions of our lives)

Question 11

Who and When:
According to __________, ethics and morals are ordinarily used as equivalent terms in Western language that refers to traditional manners, customs, habits, systems of values or character of the community.

Answer 11

Reyes (2009)

Question 12

What does Ethics and Morals refer when it comes to the equivalent terms in Western Language

Answer 12

1. Traditional Manners
2. Customs
3. Habits
4. System of Values
5. Character of the Community

Question 13

This is about what is good or bad actions, right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable.

Answer 13

Ethics

Question 14

True or False:
Ethics is about doing what is good and avoiding what is bad.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or False:
The Primary concern of ethics is good and bad or right and wrong. But we must be able to clarify that not all that is valued to be good and bad are part of ethics.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False:
Valuation is part of ethics

Answer 16

False (It is not part of ethics rather it is part of Aesthetic)

Question 17

What is the meaning of the Greek Word Ethos?

Answer 17

Custom, Usage, Character

Question 18

What is the meaning of the Latin Word Mores?

Answer 18

convention or practice

Question 19

What is the Greek Word of Aesthetic?

Answer 19

Aesthesis

Question 20

What is the meaning of the Greek Word Aesthesis?

Answer 20

Sense or Feeling

Question 21

When it comes Aesthetics, there are judgements that are made, but it is based on what?

Answer 21

Our Senses:
1. See
2. Hear
3. Smell
4. Taste

Question 22

The Valuation of an objects’ goodness or badness when it comes a persons’ self judgement is considered?

Answer 22

Personal Aesthetic Preference
(This is why Aesthetic is not part of Ethics)

Question 23

This is telling us what is proper to do in specific situations.

Answer 23

Etiquette

Question 24

What is the opposite of Etiquette?

Answer 24

Disgust

Question 25

True or False: Ethics and Etiquette are the same

Answer 25

False (Etiquette also concerns what is right and wrong actions but to a certain degree)

Question 26

Technique comes from what Greek Word?

Answer 26

Techne

Question 27

What is the meaning of the Greek Word Techne?

Answer 27

The proper way of doing things

Question 28

True or False: Aesthetics, etiquette, and technique is not part of ethics

Answer 28

True

Question 29

What are the things that can be considered as Ethical Problems?

Answer 29

* Death Penalty * Corruption in the Government * Inequality

Question 30

True or False: Ethics is not dependent on taste to be able to classify what is good and bad action

Answer 30

True

Question 31

True or False: Ethics does not value good or bad actions based on its acceptability and unacceptability in the community

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False: Ethics does not classify good and bad actions based o technique or the proper way of doing things

Answer 32

True

Question 33

What are the obvious sets of standards?

Answer 33

Law, Religion and Culture

Question 34

This is the one that guides every country in this world. It also prohibits things that should not be done

Answer 34

Law

Question 35

This can easily claim that actions like stealing or murder are unethical because it is prohibited.

Answer 35

Law

Question 36

According to this law, it states that persons exempt from criminal liability in the event of the crimes of theft, swindling or malicious mischief include spouses of relatives by affinity in the same line, the widowed spouse with respect to the property that belonged to the deceased spouse, and brother and sister or brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.

Answer 36

Article 332 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines

Question 37

True or False: What is Legal is not necessarily moral

Answer 37

True

Question 38

This talks about what is pleasing and not pleasing in the eyes of God.

Answer 38

Religion

Question 39

It greatly contributes to molding their faithful to be good.

Answer 39

Religion

Question 40

This gives us the guiding principle on how to be a good person.

Answer 40

The Ten Commandments

Question 41

What are the Ten Commandments?

Answer 41

1. You shall have no other God’s before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. 5. Honor your father and mother. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shall not bear false witness. 10. You shall not covet.

Question 42

These are people who do not believe in deities.

Answer 42

Atheist

Question 43

These sets standards in our community. It tells the community what we should do and not to do.

Answer 43

Culture

Question 44

Based on the Namibian Tribe, Ovahimba Tribe and Ovazimba Tribe, this is a kind of practice where a man visits the tribe and knocks on the door, then the husband will give his wife to his guest and spend the night while the husband goes out of the house.

Answer 44

Okujepisa Omukazendu Treatment

Question 45

True or False: Ethicists would confer that the source of authority in ethics must be common to all. It must be something universal.

Answer 45

True

Question 46

What ability is common to all men?

Answer 46

Ability to Reason

Question 47

This theory is a system of ideas which is used to evaluate our valuing of actions and concludes decision on a certain action.

Answer 47

Moral Theory

Question 48

Why does the Law cannot be the Source of Authority when it comes to Ethics?

Answer 48

Because Ethics does not simply identify it with obedience to the law. What is legal is not necessarily Moral.

Question 49

Why does Religion cannot be the Source of Authority when it comes to Ethics?

Answer 49

Because there are a lot of Religion in the world and the main problem is which religion is the ultimate source of authority on ethics.

Question 50

Why does Culture cannot be the Source of Authority when it comes to Ethics?

Answer 50

Because just like Religion, there are also a lot of Culture in the World, and to add up there some cultures that are unacceptable to other people.

Question 51

What is the title of the book of Venancio B. Ardales that gives a comprehensive definition of Ethics. Which means Ethics examines the right and wrong of man's behavior as well as the pursuit of the good life.

Answer 51

Logic

Question 52

Who is the Author of the Book Logic?

Answer 52

Venancio B. Ardales

Question 53

What is the title of the book of Dennis Villanueva Tubo? That has the content that Ethics as a science that studies the morality of human act. And to be able to understand how an action to be right and wrong is to accept implication that out life is indeed a value.

Answer 53

Philosophy of Man

Question 54

Who is the Author of the Book titled "The Philosophy of Man"?

Answer 54

Dennis Villanueva Tubo

Question 55

What is the title of the Book of Barbara Mckinnon and Andrew Fiala, that talks about the define ethics as ethics or moral philosophy, asks basic questions about the good life, about what is better and worse?

Answer 55

Ethics and Contemporary Issues

Question 56

Who are the Authors of the Book titled "Ethics and Contemporary Issues"?

Answer 56

Barbara Mckinnon and Andrew Fiala

Question 57

This is the conduct or rules that a person or community adhere to.

Answer 57

Morality

Question 58

What is the Latin Word of Morality?

Answer 58

Moralitas

Question 59

What is the meaning of Moralitas?

Answer 59

Manner, Character, Proper Behavior

Question 60

It gives us rules for everyday life and it is practical.

Answer 60

Morality

Question 61

This is the Critical reflection of Morals and it is theoretical.

Answer 61

Ethics

Question 62

When it comes to the Source of Authority, what are the limits when it comes to Law?

Answer 62

1. If there is no law prohibiting an act then you are not liable/responsible 2.Differences of Law

Question 63

When it comes to the Source of Authority, what is the limit when it comes to Culture?

Answer 63

Difference on the concept of Good

Question 64

When it comes to the Source of Authority, what are the limits when it comes to Religion?

Answer 64

1. Difference on the concept of Good 2. Precepts

Question 65

It is a policy of the state to value the dignity of every human person and guarantee full respect for human rights.

Answer 65

RA 11313 - Safe Space Act

Question 66

This is an act defining Gender-based sexual harassment in streets, public spaces, online, workplaces, and educational or training institutions, providing protective measures and prescribing penalties.

Answer 66

RA 11313 - Safe Space Act