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Ethics Activity 6

The document discusses how feelings and emotions can serve as both help and hindrance in making right decisions. It lists 5 feelings - fear, anger, sadness, joy, and surprise - and provides reasons for how each can be helpful or unhelpful. The assessment asks how feelings can be trained as instinctive and trained responses to moral dilemmas. It summarizes David Hume's philosophical insights on feelings, including that reason alone cannot motivate action and that moral distinctions come from feelings of approval and disapproval, not reason. Hume argued that while some virtues are natural, others like justice are artificial or trained responses.

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Ethics Activity 6

The document discusses how feelings and emotions can serve as both help and hindrance in making right decisions. It lists 5 feelings - fear, anger, sadness, joy, and surprise - and provides reasons for how each can be helpful or unhelpful. The assessment asks how feelings can be trained as instinctive and trained responses to moral dilemmas. It summarizes David Hume's philosophical insights on feelings, including that reason alone cannot motivate action and that moral distinctions come from feelings of approval and disapproval, not reason. Hume argued that while some virtues are natural, others like justice are artificial or trained responses.

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ETHICS: ACTIVITY 6

Activity 6

Instruction: List down five (5) feelings/emotions and give a brief explanation why each can serve as both help and
hindrance in making right decisions.

Feelings/Emotions Reason (as help) Reason (as hindrance)

1. Fear helps you manage stress and Fear is a self-imposed prison


relaxes you. that will keep you from
becoming what God intends
for you to be. You must move
against it with the weapons of
faith and love.

2.Anger anger strongly motivates you financial issues, abuse, poor


to do something about it. As social or familial situations,
such, anger helps you cope and overwhelming
with the stress by first requirements on your time and
discharging the tension in your energy can all contribute to
body, and by doing so it calms the formation of anger.
your nerves.That's why you
may have an angry reaction
and then feel calm afterward.

3.Sadness positive thinking, positive Sadness is part of the ups and


attitude, and positive downs of life. Feeling sad can
behaviors, labeling sadness as prompt you to make choices
a problem emotion that needs that improve your life.
to be kept at bay or Sadness is not depression You
eliminated. can learn to manage your
sadness.

4.Joy They make you feel that Joy is something which is badly
everything in life is okay and misunderstood, sometimes even
that you are special. When you by Christians.To better
are living in joy, this is what appreciate the joy God has
created us to enjoy, let us be
you appear like to others.
more aware of counterfeit joy.

5.Surprise the surprise works on the surprise is the sum of micro


dopamine system in the brain, emotions, such as fear,
which helps it get attention discontent and astonishment
and inspire to look at the that arise from an unexpected
situation in new ways experience.

Assessment

a. Discuss how feelings can be trained as instinctive and trained responses to moral dilemmas.

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FEELINGS AS INSTINCTIVE AND TRAINED RESPONSE TO MORAL DILEMMAS

Philosophical Insights on Feelings. (David Hume)

● Philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist.


● Opposes most moral philosophers, ancient and modern who argued to regulate actions
using reason and reason has dominion over feelings or emotions.

FOUR THESES OF DAVID HUME FOR ETHICS

● Reason alone cannot be a motivation to the will but rather is the slave of the passions.
● Moral distinctions are not derived from reason.
● Moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiments feelings of approval
(esteem,praise) and disapproval (blame) felt by spectators who contemplate a character
trait or action.
● While some virtues and vices are natural, others (including justice) are artificial.

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