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• Ethics is a science that deals with moral principles or rules
• Ethics influences how people make decisions and lead their lives
• According to Jose M. de Mesa, PhD, ethics is to discern what is “pagiging-tao or may mabuting kalooban or asal-tao” versus “pagiging-hayop or asal hayop or may masamang kalooban”
• Ethics is the study of norms that people must follow to attain their ultimate goal in life, which is to attain ultimate happiness, in the light of reason alone
• Norms, derived from the Greek term “nomos” meaning “laws”, are rules and regulations in society that guide and tell us how and what are the acceptable and fitting behavior in society
• In ethics, we study various norms to avoid committing anti-social activities like rape, corruption, murder, or fraud, not through faith but through reason alone
• The goal of ethics is to know or determine the proper or improper, fitting or not fitting, appropriate or inappropriate behaviors of a human person in society
• Ethics aims to explain why people behave in certain ways so that individuals can grow and develop as truly human beings and avoid dangerous and irrational behaviors
• Ethics offers different ways to make decisions by providing various moral principles
• Human action is the measure of one’s ethicality
• Ethics assists people in making decisions by explaining the concept of good human behavior through various available moral assumptions
• Ethics is NOT about what you feel is right or wrong because feelings are in the mind and generate emotions
• Feelings are vital in assessing human behaviors or actions
• Ethics ensures a generally agreed standard of work-related behavior that empowers professionals to foster moral values through their work
• Ethics gives a sense of justification in one’s judgment and helps ensure decisions at work are not based on purely subjective factors
• Without the study of ethics, the practice of one’s profession will fall prey to vastly conflicting individual interpretations
• Awareness of an ethical issue

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• it can't guarantee that we will always make a correct decision but it will give us a lucid and better way of understanding how and why we come to our decision

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• Test your decision

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• make an action and mull over and the result

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• make a assessment of alternative actions

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• it evaluates what lies behind our moral judgment

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• it helps us solve hard questions in life and encourage us to solve it by ourselves

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• it attempts to explain and evaluate what a good person is like

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• Collate the evidences available regarding the issue

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