ETHICS
CULTURE AND
MORALITY
Lesson 5
WHAT IS CULTURE?
CULTURE AND
MORALITY THE FUNDAMENTAL
CHARACTERISTICS OF
OUTLINE CULTURE
NO HUMAN CULTURE IS
PERFECT
CULTURE AND MORAL
DEVELOPMENT
WHY STUDY CULTURE AND
MORALITY
I. WHAT IS CULTURE?
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT FROM ONE
ANOTHER?
A way of life of a group of people, underpinned by
adaptation to a common environment, similar ways
of thinking, acting and doing, similar attitudes and
expectations, similar ideas, beliefs and practices.
(Tangwa, 2003)
I. WHAT IS CULTURE?
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT FROM ONE
ANOTHER?
The integrated pattern of human knowledge, beliefs
and behaviours. Culture is consists of language, ideas,
customs, morals, laws, taboos, institutions, tools,
techniques, and works of art, rituals and other
capacities and habits acquired by a person as a member
of society (Taylor quoted in Palipis, 2007)
2. CULTURE IS ALWAYS
1. CULTURE IS ROOTED FROM
TRANSMITTED, SHARED OR
THE COLLECTIVE "HUMAN
ACQUIRED THROUGH
EXPERIENCE."
LEARNING.
II. Fundamental Characteristics of
Culture
3. CULTURE SATISFIES 4. CULTURE TENDS TOWARDS
HUMAN NEEDS AS A SOCIAL THE PARTICIPATION OF THE
BEING. MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.
WHICH IS DEPENDENT TO THE OTHER?
CULTURE MORALITY
way of life of group of grounded on human
people rationality and common
biological nature
adaptation to a common
environment defining what makes us
humans
WHICH IS DEPENDENT TO THE OTHER?
CULTURE MORALITY
inevitably relative and necessarily universal in
limited to a particular its outlook and concerns
group of people
WHICH IS DEPENDENT TO THE OTHER?
Ethics may be culturally dependent; however, Tangwa
((2005) suggest cultures to be ethics dependent.
ETHICS
III. NO HUMAN CULTURE
IS PERFECT
CULTURE AND MORALITY
NO HUMAN CULTURE IS
PERFECT
HUMAN EGO-CENTRISM NATURALLY
LEADS INDIVIDUALS TO PERCEIVE
THEIR OWN CULTURE AS THE CULTURE.
ONE CULTURE DIFFERS FROM ANOTHER
MEANING IT ATTACHES TO VARIOUS
KINDS OF EXPERIENCE, IN ITS IMAGE
OF THE ACCOMPLISHED MAN, IN THE
STORIES BY WHICH IT STRUCTURES ITS
PERCEPTIONS. (HARPER AND ROW, 1970)
NO HUMAN CULTURE IS
PERFECT
NO HUMAN CULTURE OR COMMUNITY IS
PERFECT.
CULTURES QUA CULTURES CAN BE SAID
TO BE EQUAL IN THE SAME SENSE IN
WHICH HUMAN BEINGS ARE EQUAL, IN
SPITE OF GREAT DIFFERENCES IN THEIR
INDIVIDUAL AND INDIVIDUATING
ATTRIBUTES AND CHARACTERISTICS.
NO
HUMAN
CULTURE CULTURES ARE LIKE TINTED
IS SPECTACLES THROUGH WHICH
WE VIEW REALITY.
PERFECT
NO
HUMAN
WE INEVITABLY IMPOSE OUR
CULTURE PARTICULAR CULTURAL TINT ON
EVERYTHING WE PERCEIVE, BUT
IS CRITICAL AWARENESS CAN LEAD US
TO THE REALIZATION THAT 'OBJECTIVE
PERFECT REALITY' IS MULTI-COLORED.
IV. INFLUENCE
OF CULTURE IN
MORAL
DEVELOPMENT
Ethics: Culture and Morality
CULTURE IN MORAL Culture is always social and communal
DEVELOPMENT Culture defines the normative principles
and behaviours of the society.
INFLUENCE OF
Culture develops restrictions and sets
boundaries and limitations as people live
and relate with one another
CULTURE IN MORAL Culture conditions the mind – the way
DEVELOPMENT people think and the way they perceive
the world and their relationship with one
INFLUENCE OF
another.
Culture identifies the authorities or the
governing individuals or groups
Morality is based on simple human
rationality, not on any specialized
knowledge and it is
uncompromising in its demands,
superceding man-made laws,
MORALITY political expediency, economic
considerations and social customs
and practices.
Ethics: Culture and Morality
Moral Reason is always a good and
sufficient justification for changing
or abolishing a law, political
programme, economic project,
social custom or practice, but none
MORAL REASON of these latter can morally be
justified by simply claiming that
that is what it is, that is, a law,
custom, project or programme.
Ethics: Culture and Morality
Moral development is a process
through which a human person
gains his or her beliefs, skills and
dispositions that makes him or her
MORAL morally mature person (Pekarsky,
DEVELOPMENT 1998)
Ethics: Culture and Morality
V. CULTURE
AND MORAL
DEVELOPMENT
Ethics: Culture and Morality
Culture has a great impact in the
development of the human person
in varied ways; may it be in
physical, knowledge, thought,
CULTURE AND relationship, religious or moral
development.
MORAL
DEVELOPMENT Culture is a person’s social
heritage that has been passed
from one generation to the next
basically through the relationship
that binds the society together.
UNDERSTANDING
OPENNESS
VI. Why study culture and morality?
PERSPECTIVE
RESPECT
Openness
Openness to other cultures
will lead to connectivity
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Understanding
Understanding one’s own
culture will lead to mastery of
the self. Understanding the
diversity of cultures will lead
to understanding people
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Respect
Respecting cultures will lead
to mutual and harmonious
relationship
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Perspective
Widening perspective will
lead to deeper appreciation
of what it means to be in a
society.
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ETHICS
CULTURE AND
MORALITY
Lesson 5
