Name: Maribel G.

Glodove Educ 2/3

Activity for Lesson 3, Chapter 1

Test Your Understanding

A. Directions: Answer the following with a YES or NO. If your answer is NO, explain your answer in a
sentence.
1. Is morality for persons and animals?

No. Only human have morality.

2. Is the natural law known only by the learned?

No. Even the unschooled have a sense to do good and to avoid evil.

3. Did the primitive people have a sense of the natural law?

Yes.
4. Is an animalistic act of man moral?
No. To be moral is to be human. Any act that brings down man to the level of the brute like any
animalistic act is, therefore, not moral.
5. Is it right to judge a dog to be immoral if it defecates right there in your garden?
No. Morality applies only to persons and not to animals because animals have no choice. They are
bound by their instincts.
6. Is the foundational moral principle sensed only by believers?
No. Even unbelievers have a sense to do good and avoid evil because this natural law is written in every
man’s heart.
7. Is the foundational moral principle very specific?
No. it is a general statement , “Do good and avoid evil”.
8. Is the foundational moral principle the basis of more specific moral principle?
Yes.
9. Is the foundational moral principle so called because it is the basis of all principles?
Yes.

10. Are the Ten Commandments for Christians more specific moral principles of the
foundational moral principle?
Yes.
11. Is the natural law literally engraved in every human heart?
No, not literally. But it is written or engraved in every human’s heart in the sense that every man has a sense
of principle “Do good and Avoid evil”.
12. Are The Five Pillars of Islam reflective of the natural law?
Yes.
13. Is the Buddhist’s Eightfold Path in accordance with the natural law?
Yes.
14. Are the Golden rule for Christians basically the same with Kung-fu-tsu’s Reciprocity rule?
Yes.

Synapse Strengtheners

A. Direction: Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.

1. To be moral is to be human. What does this mean?
This means that any act that is moral makes man/woman become more kind of human being that
s/he was intented to be.
2. Why is morality only for persons?
Morality is only for person because only persons are endowed with intellect with which they
can think, reason out and analyze and free will with which they can choose.
3. What do the following tell you about the natural law?
Ancient philosophers and dramatists had already mentioned the natural law. Sophocles, for instance, in
the drama Antigone, spoke of the “unwritten statutes of heaven which are not of today or yesterday but
from all time and no man knows when they were first put forth.”
Cierco wrote: “True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application,
unchanging and everlasting…”
“Lawless license or promiscuity is not common among primitive peoples. According to Fr.
Vanoverberg, a Belgian anthropologist of the CICM congregation, the Negritos of northern Luzon have
excellent moral standards especially with regard to honesty and sexual matters although their power of
abstraction is so low that they can hardly count beyond 5.” (Panizo, 1964).
The natural law is “written in the heart of every man”. This is true to all men and women. One
need not be schooled to have sense of the natural law.
B. Direction: Answer as briefly as you can the following questions.

1. “Do good; avoid evil” is the foundational moral principle. List at least 5 good things that you have to
do as a teacher and 5 evil things you have to avoid doing.
Five good things I will do if ever I will be a teacher someday.
 Have patience, not all students are the same.
 Be a role model of doing good or a good leader.
 Understand every students learning capacity.
 Help as much as we can for all students for them to learn, to grow and to be a good citizen.
 Teachers should be the second family of the students be kind and be approachable.

Five evil things I have to avoid.

 No using of profanity words during class.

 Don’t shout at your students.
 Don’t be violent during class.
 Favoritism.
 Do not stress them out with paper works that can cause mental breakdown.
2. The Golden Rule for Christians is: Do to other what you would like others to do to you.” Give a
concrete application of the Golden Rule as you relate to a learner, to a fellow teacher, to a parent or
any member of the community and to your superiors.
e.g. Speak well of your fellow teacher just as you want your fellow teacher to speak well of you.”
ANSWER: Treat me good and I treat you better. Treat me bad and I’ll treat you worse.
3. How does conscience relate to morality?
Answer: Generally speaking, conscience is understood as the voice that every sane person carries
within herself or himself that tells right from wrong, regardless of the law or the opinions of people
around her or him. For her, moral conduct must be sharply separated from obedience to the law, either
the law of God or of man.
4. Are man-made laws part of the natural law? What about the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers?

Answer: Man made laws are sometimes formed from natural laws or physical laws. Codes of ethics for
professional teachers are not the same in every way, but they follow it because they need to, and sometimes it's
just the proper thing to do. Laws may limit what we do but it also makes us stand on what is proper.
5. Do laws limit our freedom?
No. Laws are for safety purposes it does not have the right to limit our freedom.