BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
ACTIVITY #5
NAME: _____________________________
GR. AND SE.: ______________________________
TOPIC: Classical Ethical Philosophies and Major Ethical Philosophers
What’s More
Activity 5.1 Select the Letter of the correct answer:
1. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Personally, I currently do not have a philosophy.
b. Real philosophy is only found in an academic environment.
c. A “worldview” may be defined as a philosophical belief system.
d. Aphorisms in themselves are philosophically untenable.
2. Metaphysics can be defined as .
a. that which is logical
b. study and discourse
c. analysis and synthesis
d. theories of that which is “beyond the physical”
3. Ethics can be defined as .
a. the study of ideal conduct
b. a legal fiction
c. the thought processes characteristic of an individual or group
d. a matter of personal preference
4. Logic is _.
a. arbitrary, therefore optional in informal conversation
b. a “useless passion”
c. not of primary importance in philosophy
d. the study of correct reasoning and valid inferences
5. Knowledge is often defined (by Plato and other philosophers) as .
a. any idea
b. an idea about God or the supernatural
c. justified true beliefs
d. the foundations of self-consciousness
6. What was the Socratic Method?
a. Something that Socrates came up with
b. A way of studying issues and problems
c. A question and answer technique
d. All of the above
7. How do we know about Socrates and what his philosophies were?
e. By reading the many books he wrote
f. By studying the writings of Plato who recorded many of Socrates ideas
g. By reading the histories of Athens
h. By studying the paintings of Socrates
8. Heraclitus .
e. Believed that the world was made up of tiny “atoms”
f. Believed that the world was made from water
g. Believed that change has a form that underlies all reality
h. Believed that there was an ultimate force ruling the universe
9. The dominating philosophical school in Medieval Europe is.
e. Existentialism
f. Atomism
g. scholasticism
h. hedonism
10. Which of the following is an important American school of philosophy whose members were Peirce, James and
Dewey?
e. positivism
f. phenomenology
g. idealism
h. pragmatism
i.
What I Have Learned
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- What is philosophy?
- from Greek words philia, which means love, and Sophia which means
wisdom. It is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and
- existence. It helps us better understand who we are, why we are here, and
- where we are going.
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- What is ethics?
the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group
- the study of morality
- is a kind of investigation, which includes both the activity of investigating as
well as the results of that investigation, whereas morality is the subject matter
that ethics
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- How would you distinguish between ethics and philosophy?
- _____Philosophy is to know ourselves while ethics is good conduct that we posses .
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- Identify the various branches of philosophy.
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Axiology
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- Under which branch of philosophy would business ethics fall?
Axiology____________________________________________________________________________________
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What I Can Do
1. Write your answer to any of the following questions:
● Have you ever known someone who was simply a good person? What sets him or her apart from
the others?
Yes, my mother. Others don’t want her behavior.
● Have you ever known someone to change his or her ethical character over time? How so? Yes,
just like may friend who is moody.
● Have your own ethical standards changed at different times of your life? What happened? Yes,
sometimes if the person I talk to have no good conduct.
● What molded your moral behavior and/or moral attitudes the most?
Being kind.
2. Among the philosophers mentioned, to whom do you agree with? and why?
Socrates, because I’ve experience it already.
Assessment
- Philosophy comes from two Greek words 1philia which means love, and sophia, which means 2) wisdom.
- Aristotle’s 3) teleological ethics means that the 4) end justifies the 5)
truth .
- The types of utilitarianism are 6) , 7) , 8) , and 9) .
- Ethos means 10) or custom.
Additional Activities
Mang Eugenio Ventura
The story of Mang Eugenio Ventura, an extraordinary cab driver, went viral in the social
media when a passenger spread the good word about him not rejecting the passengers (despite
heavy traffic in Metro Manila) and declining tips. Apart from being honest, he is the jolly type –
he just laughs off the congestion on the main roads of the city. He got featured in an episode of
the TV program
“Mission Possible”.
1. What do you think has molded the honest and cheerful behavior of Mang Eugenio? The
trust of people around him.
2. What lesson can you learn from the good example of Mang Eugenio?
To be honest even if you’re not rich.
3. What can be done in our schools in order to teach and train students in honest and ethical
behavior?
By examining and watching movies with ethics.
