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Ethics Course for Filipino Students

This document provides an overview of an ethics course, including its description, learning outcomes, and course outline. The 3-unit course deals with principles of ethical behavior at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. It discusses dominant moral frameworks and teaches a 7-step model for analyzing moral dilemmas. The course is organized around the three main elements of moral experience: the agent and context, the act, and the reasoning/framework. Key concepts to be addressed include distinguishing moral from non-moral problems, understanding moral development, and applying ethical principles to analyze experiences. The mandatory topic of taxation will also be covered.

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Ethics Course for Filipino Students

This document provides an overview of an ethics course, including its description, learning outcomes, and course outline. The 3-unit course deals with principles of ethical behavior at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. It discusses dominant moral frameworks and teaches a 7-step model for analyzing moral dilemmas. The course is organized around the three main elements of moral experience: the agent and context, the act, and the reasoning/framework. Key concepts to be addressed include distinguishing moral from non-moral problems, understanding moral development, and applying ethical principles to analyze experiences. The mandatory topic of taxation will also be covered.

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Republic of the Philippines

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT


COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION

ETHICS Preliminaries

Course Title Ethics


No. of Units 3 units
Course Description:

Ethics deals with principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society, and in interaction with the
environment and other shared resources. (CMO 20 s 2013)

Morality pertains to the standards of right and wrong that an indiVidual originally picks up from the community. The
course discusses the context and principles of ethical behaViOr in modern society at the IeVel of indiVidual, society, and in
interaction with the enVironment and other shared resources. The course also teaches students to make moral decisions by
using dominant moral frameworks and by applying a seVen-step moral reasoning model to analyze and solVe moral dilemmas.

The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral experience: (a) agent, including context — cultural,
communal, and environmental; (b) the act; and (c) reason or framework (for the act).

This course includes the mandatory topic on taxation.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, the students must be able to:


1. Differentiate between moral and non-moral problems
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2. Describe what a moral experience is as it happens in different levels of human existence
3. Explain the influence of Filipino culture on the way students look at moral experiences and solve moral dilemmas
4. Describe the elements of moral development and moral experience
5. Use ethical frameworks or principles to analyze moral experiences
6. Make sound ethical judgments based on principles, facts, and the stakeholders affected
7. Develop sensitivity to the common good
8. Understand and internalize the principles of ethical behavior in modern society at the level of the person, society, and in
interaction with the environment and other shared resources

Number of Hours: 3 hours every week for 18 weeks or 48 hours in a semester

Course Outline:
The course is organized according to the three (3) main elements of the moral experience: agent (to include context - cultural,
communal, and environmental); the act; and reason or framework (for the act).

Introduction: Key Concepts (6 hours)


This section addresses the following questions:
• What are moral standards, and how do they differ from other rules of lives?
• What is a moral dilemma?
• Why is freedom crucial in our ability to make moral decisions?
• What is the advantage of owning moral standards (morality and ethics) over mefely abiding by mOfal standards?

A. Basic Concepts
a. fora/ vs. non-moral standards
b. What are dilemmas?
c. Three levels of moral dilemmas (individual, organizational, systemic)
d. roundation of morality: Freedom-responsibility for one's act and /o others
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