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Cultural Norms

This document presents 7 pairs of statements and asks the reader to evaluate whether each pair is true (A), false (B), the first statement is true (C), or the first statement is false (D). It covers topics related to the origins and definitions of philosophy, ethics, voluntariness, and differences between ethics and related fields like psychology. The reader is asked to choose their answer in capital letters for each pair.

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Cultural Norms

This document presents 7 pairs of statements and asks the reader to evaluate whether each pair is true (A), false (B), the first statement is true (C), or the first statement is false (D). It covers topics related to the origins and definitions of philosophy, ethics, voluntariness, and differences between ethics and related fields like psychology. The reader is asked to choose their answer in capital letters for each pair.

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II. MULTIPLE TRUE OR FALSE. Read and evaluate the truth or falsity of the statements below.

Use CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY, 2PTS EACH. In your answer sheet, choose the following:

A: If both statements are TRUE B. If both statements are FALSE


C: If only the 1st statement is TRUE D. If only the 1st statement is FALSE

1. A.) The word philosophy has its origin from the Latin word “Philo” which means love.
B.) Philosophy is a search for meaning or a quest for understanding.

2. A.) Voluntariness always involves a choice or an option of whether to do or not to do a certain


action.
B.) Voluntariness is an act of consenting whether it is done whole-heartedly or non-heartedly.

3. A.) Ethics is known as the study of morality that is grounded on the use of reason and experience.
B.) Ethics seeks the meaning of human existence through spiritual nourishment with doctrinal
codes, creeds and ceremonies.

4. A.) Ethicists dig deeper on the reason why an action is such without necessarily quantifying and
measuring human behaviours by inquiring what ought to be done.
B.) Ethics unlike psychology is not merely attributed to observations and scientific interpretations
of behaviours.

5. A.) The learning of a variety of cultural norms is a guarantee of reasonable ethical evaluation.
B.) Being ethical is clearly not a matter of following one’s feeling since a person following his or
her feelings may deviate or recoil from doing what is right and reasonable.

6. A.) The law often incorporates ethical standards to which most citizens subscribe like the respect
for human rights, but laws like feelings, can deviate from what is ethical.
B.) Ethics dwell on the deeper meaning of an action by finding the effects of action through
punishment and reward.

7. A.) What makes ethics a practical science is the exclusion of the use of principles and laws that are
applied in daily living in the pursuit of the good life.
B.) Ethics is derived from the Greek word “ethos,” which means a way of acting which also refers
to the principles or standards of human conduct.

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