people sayings

• hopkins et. al, 2001 - religion is a system of beliefs and practices that promotes proper social behavior based on the teachings of a diety or a supreme being.
• rubin, 2015 - morality is a system of beliefs about what is right behavior and wrong behavior
• thiroux and krasemann, 2009 - morality deals with how a person relates with others and with the world to promote what is good.
• dr james rachels, 2015 - morality is the effort to guide one's conduct by reason to act based on the best reasons for doing while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one's decision
• hunt and carnevale, 2011 - moral experience is any encounter wherein the person understands the values that he or she believes to be important are either realized or thwarted.
• merriam-webster, 2017 - rules are defined as a statement that tells you what is or is not allowed in a particular situation
• o'connor, lynn, 1997 - moral standard is a code of what is right or wrong without reference to behaviors or beliefs
• mandal, 2010 and velasquez, 2012 - moral standards deals with the matters that the person thinks have serious consequences. however, these standards are not hinged on external authority or rules, but based on good reason and impartial considerations overriding interest. feelings of guilt and shame are often associated when the person goes against his or her moral standards
• velasquez, 2012 - moral standards have characteristics that set it apart from non-moral standards.
• taylor and williams, 2017 - etiquette is a set of rules on how an individual should responsibly behave in the society
• university of Sydney, 2002-2017. - policies ate guiding rules to help with decision making
• Robertson, 2008; Brickley and Gottesman, 2017. - Law is a rule created and enforced by agencies to maintain order, resolve disputes, agent the government and its and protect a person's liberty rights
• stahl, 2009 - Commandment is a rule that is to be strictly observed because it was said to be set by a divine entity such as those in the Ten Commandments
• Dictionary.Com, 2017 - Dilemma is a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives especially equally undesirable ones
• Wilson,2017 - Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, Thomas Aquinas, Peter Caruthers and various religious theories believe that only humans can be ethical
• St. Thomas Aquinas - said that the fundamental difference between animal ethics and human ethics is that animals behave instinctively while humans behave rationally
• spink,2021 - Instinctive Behavior is a hard-wired, inborn,characteristic response to specific environmental stimuli such as the altruistic behavior (unselfish) of social animals
• Encyclopedia Britannica, 2009 - Researchers found that the animal’s intent of self-sacrifice is more on ensuring reproductive success called kin selection rather than out of true self-less motive
• Trivers, 1971 - There is also reciprocal altruism where the animal will provide for another’s animal need because it expects the similar act in a similar manner at a later time. Example: Chimpanzees scratching each other’s back
• Information Resources Management Association, 2015 - Rational behavior is a decision-making process where the person acts in ways that best achieve his/her needs in accordance with his/her set preferences, priorities, and principles
• C.S Lewis likened morality to a fleet of ships. although each ship must sail well on its own, each must coordinate with other ships at all times to stay in information to avoid collision
• Lord Acton - an English Catholic historian said that freedom is so precious that God will not take over and take control of her person's life even that person badly misuses his freedom. Whatever influences the person's view of his ultimate end. Enlightenment cannot be forced.
• Aristotle - a human being person is being with inborn properties that he uses to direct his own development toward self-fulfillment.
• Gabriel Marcel - freedom is the ability to act significantly
• Hernandez, 2009 - according to gabriel marcel, freedom is the ability to act significantly. free acts are significant because they help to make us who we are as human beings. freedom is not merely the ability to make arbitrary choices because we are not free if everything that we can choose to do is significant in the first place. freedomn is the ability to make significant choices and according to marcel, Freedom is a gift given to us by God
• aristotle - For him, the human person as a moral agent must exercise practical rationally in order to determine how to pursue his/her ultimate end (telos).
• walsh,1997 - He considered freedom and reasons as necessary faculties for consciously making sense of things (events, occurrences, phenomena, situation)
• Jean Paul Sartre's concept of freedom is not the freedom to do something or anything. For him, the human person is absolute free
• Lao Tzu advocated that a person can and should choose art, but his/her actions should be that which result in harmony.
• jean paul sartre - said "you are free" because he believed that a person always have a choice
• jean paul sartre - you must choose. his idea was that freedom is the capacity to choose, that even not choosing is a choice.
• gallinero, 2014 - jean paul sartre said you are free because he believed a person always has a choice. thus, according to him, you must choose. his ideas was that freedom is the capacity to choose, that even not choosing is a choice. even though individuals must make their own choices because they are free, these choices also have consequences to it. RESPONSIBILITY FOLLOWS FREEDOM
• Lao Tzu - His idea was that in any society, the exercise of one's freedom is not absolute
• gallinero,2014 - the person is free to do anything but it is not without consequence of one's actions
• Emile Durkheim added that with more people holding the same beliefs, social order is also strengthened
• Little and McGivern,2016 - Culture has the power for individuals to create beliefs such as belief in God. Emile Durkheim added that with more people holding the same beliefs, social order is also strengthened
• Taylor, 1974, 1981 - Culture is the way of life of a group that includes their knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by a man as a member of society
• karl marx - culture served to justify inequality because the ruling class determines what is right and wrong while the rest merely follow.
• pekarsky,1978 - Plato, one of the revered founders of Western philosophy cited in his famous philosophical work, The Republic, three critical elements that jointly influence the human person’s moral development. These elements are native traits or genetic characteristics; early childhood experience; and one’s cultural surroundings
• Plato - he implied that if a person’s cultural surroundings reward conformity to agreeable norms, it would lead the person to behave much better and quell undesirable conduct. He also expressed that the power of culture over an individual is more potent in children because they do not have any preexisting values