Ethics

• Culture


  The integrated pattern of human knowledge, beliefs and behaviors, consisting of language, ideas, customs, morals, laws, taboos, institutions, techniques, and works of art, rituals and other capacities and habits
• Magisterium


  Refers to the Roman Catholic Church's authority to explain culture as the set of means used by mankind to become more virtuous and reasonable in order to become fully human, and that culture is meant to serve human persons
• Types of culture


  • Nonmaterial
  • Material
• Nonmaterial culture consists of language, values, rules, knowledge and meanings shared by members of society
• Material culture includes all physical objects that a society produces
• Culture is not purely the result of human genetics, it includes all human phenomena which are not purely genetic
• Those born into and educated under the Aristotelico-Thomistic culture are persuaded that there is a divine order and law that governs the world
• Culture is subject to change or gradual evolution
• Enculturation


  The process of learning from infancy until death
• Inculturation


  The process of being transformed by the introduction to Christianity
• Acculturation


  The cultural modification of an individual, group or people by adapting or borrowing traits from other cultures
• Negative cultural traits


  • Extreme family centeredness
  • Extreme personalism
  • Lack of discipline
  • Passivity and lack of initiative
  • Colonial mentality
  • Kanya-kaya syndrome, balikbayan mentality
  • Lack of self-analysis and self-reflection
  • Emphasis on form rather than substance
• These negative cultural traits result in inefficient work systems, the violation of rules, a casual work ethic lacking follow through, and a tendency to be superficial and flighty