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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Ethical issues and concerns permeate your everyday lives. By “everyday life” it means
the life of anyone who can recognize him/herself as a person embedded in relations with
other persons, with a social environment, and with nature. Moral conflict and even moral
crises on a global scale, characterize our everyday lives. The development of our moral
capacities is one of the core objectives of the UP General Education program. The
institution of Ethics as a GE course is aimed at keeping this objective. This course will
help develop your understanding through informed and systematic reflection on the moral
experiences that form so much of the substance of everyday life. GE Ethics will locate the
sources of moral experience not only within our culture, society, religion and individual
experiences, including our relation with nature. Thus, this course will approach the study
of ethics from the ground up, from the more concrete to the more abstract, and then back
again to the concrete and urgent concerns of applied ethics in our world. At the end of the
course, we will have an understanding of why and in what sense we are considered as
moral beings situated in a moral world, with an urgent responsibility to ourselves, to others,
and to the world we live in. It is hoped that taking the course will help provide UP students
with the moral compass that every human being needs in order to meet the difficult moral
challenges of our time.
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COURSE MATERIALS
COURSE OUTLINE
3. Moral Reasoning
4. Moral Reasons
5. Challenges to the Study of Ethics and Moral Reasoning
a. Moral Subjectivism
b. Moral Relativism
c. Religion and Morality
d. Evolution and Morality
A.1. MODULE III: Indigenous and Cultural Sources of Moral Valuation and
Reasoning Part I
1. Pantayong Pananaw
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a. Kahulugan at Tunguhin ng Pantayong Pananaw
b. Papel at Kahalagahan ng Wika sa Pagtataguyod ng Pantayong Pananaw
2. Sikolohiyang Pilipino
a. Konsepto ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino
b. “Kapwa” bilang pangunahing konsepto sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino at iba
pang mga halagahin
c. Sikolohiyang Pilipino bilang batis ng moral na halagahin at
pangangatwirang moral
A.2. MODULE IV: Indigenous and Cultural Sources of Moral Valuation and
Reasoning Part 2
3. Pilipinohiya
a. Balangkas ng Pagkataong Pilipino
b. Tambalang-Lapit
4. Pilosopiyang Pilipino
a. Tatlong konsepto ng Pilosopiya ni Armando Bonifacio
b. Konsepto ng Pilosopiyang Pilipino
c. Pilosopiyang Pilipino bilang batis ng moral na halagahin at
pangangatwirang moral
1. Egoism
2. Altruism
3. Virtue Ethics
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C. MODULE VII: Deciding What is Right
1. Deontological/Duty Ethics
2. Teleological/ Consequentialist Ethics
3. Rights-Based Ethics
4. Feminist Ethics/Ethics of Care
5. Supererogatory: Actions Beyond the Call of Duty
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In case letter c cannot be accomplished because no one reacted on your post,
you can add another reaction/insight on the presented ideas of your other
classmates to replace letter c.
Please take note also that it is alright to change your position or your take on
the issue if after a careful scrutiny of your very own thoughts, you find very
good reasons to abandon your original position and embrace a new stand. In
other words, it is healthy to change your mind provided that you have very good
reasons for doing so. Your reason, in case you decide to change your position,
must be well-explained.
EQUIVALENT GRADE
RAW SCORES
98-100 1.0 Excellent
95-97 1.25
90-94 1.5 Very Good
85-89 1.75
80-84 2.0 Good
75-79 2.25
70-74 2.5 Satisfactory
65-69 2.75
60-64 3.0 Pass
55-59 4.0 Conditional
0-54 5.0 Fail
5. Strictly follow the announced submission schedules. All the deadlines set are
non-negotiable.
ACTIVITIES/ASSIGNMENTS
Carefully read and follow the general guidelines for your DB Postings (Forum) and
Assignments (A1 and A2). Topics/questions and additional instructions for the DB and
Assignments will be announced later at our course site.
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GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATING IN ONLINE DISCUSSION (DB)
4. There must only be one thread per DB question per group. This means that all the
members of the group must follow the thread started by their groupmate who first
posted an answer to the given DB question. Take note that I will not read and grade
the answers that are posted outside the original thread.
(b) your reactions or insights on the presented ideas of at least one groupmate;
and
(c) your response to at least one reaction of your groupmate to defend or clarify
your point.
6. Use the following codes to indicate the contents of your DB postings. Take note that
corresponding deductions will be given to answers without proper codes:
7. Take note that there are no right and wrong opinions; there are only more
comprehensible and well-supported opinions. Always endeavor to present clear and
well-substantiated ideas.
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8. Your active participation in the forum, the clarity of your presented points, the
strength of your justifications and the depth of your moral reflections, as well as your
observance of proper decorum, will be the main criteria for the determination of your
DB grade. Below is the breakdown of your DB score (50/50):
RQ - 20 points
R1 - 15 points
R2 - 15 points (Note: R2 can be replaced by another R1)
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TOTAL 50 points
9. Keep an open mind and a respectful attitude towards the other members of your
group. Please avoid making personal attacks.
10. Please be reminded also that since interactions will be done online, a reliable internet
access is a must.
11. The indicated schedule for posting will be observed strictly. Take note that answers
or reactions beyond this specified period will not merit points.
2. The topics/questions for your assignments will be announced later at the course
site.
3. Upload your assignment on the Assignment 1/ Assignment 2 Submission Bin
that will appear at our course site.
5. Make sure to write the following information on the first page of your answer to
your assignment:
For Assignment 1:
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Assignment 1 Topic: Moral Issue X Date submitted: TBA
For Assignment 2:
6. The following will be the main criteria for the determination of your Assignment
grade (50/50):
Correctness
Consistency, coherence and clarity of presented ideas
Strength of justifications
Depth of moral reflections/insights
Schedule of Submission:
A 1 TBA
A 2 TBA
8. To ensure that you will be able to submit the requirements on time, please avoid
last minute submissions. This is in consideration of some unexpected technical
mishaps that might prevent prompt submission of your output. Please be mindful of
the announced deadlines. Only the assignments that are successfully uploaded at
the Assignment Submission Bins will be marked.
EXAMINATIONS
2. Take note that for proctored course exams, students must file an application
for proctored course exams TWO WEEKS after the start of classes. “No
Application, No Proctored Course Examination” policy is strictly implemented.
The examination services staff will inform you of the status of your application,
name of proctor, date, time and venue of your exam before the scheduled
examination.
3. All examination concerns will be taken care of by the Exams Services Office.
4. The course requires 2 examinations that constitute 50% of your final Philosophy
173 grade.
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VENUE AND TIME: please check these with Exam Services Office
COVERAGE: TBA TYPE
OF EXAM: TBA
HOUSE RULES
2. Make sure that the name that you will use at our course site and in the other
course requirements that you will submit is the name you used for registering
at UPOU. This corresponds to your MyPortal account name as provided by
UPOU’s techsupport team.
3. Upload a “recent photo" of yourself (not a picture of your pet, family, friends,
a cartoon character, et cetera) to your profile.
5. To ensure that you will be able to submit the requirements on time, please avoid
last minute submissions. This is in consideration of some unexpected technical
mishaps that might prevent prompt submission of your output.
7. In connection with house rule #4, I suggest that you officially drop the course if
it is very obvious that your failure to submit requirements as scheduled will only
result in obtaining a failing mark in the course. A mark of “DRP” is better than
getting a final grade of “5.0.” I suggest the same thing (that you officially drop
the course) if you are officially enrolled in this class but for whatever reason
decide not to participate in any of our class activities.
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9. UP students must at all times pursue academic excellence and uphold
intellectual integrity. I will not tolerate any form of intellectual dishonesty. I will
strictly enforce and uphold the rules of the university regarding this matter.
Remember that you can be expelled from the university if you are found guilty
of cheating, of claiming the work of someone as your own (plagiarism), or of
any other kind of intellectual dishonesty.
11. Feel free to contact me via Myportal if you have concerns about the class but
give me 2-3 days to respond to your mail. Do not expect me to be online 24/7.
YOUR FIC
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