Group 3

• Making an informed decision


  Assessing risk and collecting relevant information before you take a step
• Informed decision


  A choice that individuals make once they have all the information related to the decisions topic
• Ethics


  Concerned with the right ways of acting in relation to other human beings towards self
• Culture


  Includes beliefs and practices of a certain group of people, with these it potentially confusing ticket of an individual interaction with the wider world of social roles, which can come into conflicts with one another or even with his/her own values
• Steps in making an informed decisions

  1. Identify the question

  2. Gather relevant information

  3. Identify the alternatives

  4. Evaluate the options

  5. Choose among the alternatives

  6. Take action/act on the final decision

  7. Review your decisions
• Moral Agent


  A person who has the ability to discern right from wrong and to be held accountable for his/her actions
• Ethics


  The set of moral principles that guide person's behavior, shaped by social norms, culture practices, and religious influences
• Culture Relativism


  The idea that a person's belief, values and practices should be understood based on that person own culture, rather that be judged against the criteria of another
• Culture very substantially in both moral judgement and moral behaviors. Culture variation is morality within societies can vary as much as cultural variations in morality between societies
• Moral Deliberation


  Only someone who is on the verge of reaching moral maturity understand the need for learning many ethical ideas and frameworks
• Kohlberg's stages of moral development

  • Pre-conventional
  • Conventional
  • Post-conventional
• Individual Self


  One has to pay attention not just on how one deals with oneself, but also on how one interacts with other individuals in personal relations
• The Non-Human Environment


  In the case of utilitarianism, some scholars point out that this hedonistic doctrine that focuses on the sovereignty of pleasures and pains in human decision-making should extend into other creatures that can experience pleasures and pains, namely, animals
• Social Life: In the Philippine Context and in the Global Village


  One's membership in any society brings forth the demands of communal life in terms of the group's rules and regulations. The ethical question arises when the expectations of a particular society come into conflict with one's most fundamental values