Finals

• Only humans can act morally or immorally
• Only human beings can be rational autonomous and self conscious
• Only human beings can possess or practice values such as love, honor, social relationship, forgiveness, compassion and altruism
• Human beings and animals cannot communicate in truly meaningful ways
• Levels of moral dilemma

  • Personal
  • Organizational
  • Structural
• Many ethicist believed that being good involves both thinking and feeling
• Justice is needed to realize and maintain our highest human values of freedom, peace, life, love, and happiness
• Universal values are formed by implied behavioral standards that are necessary to live in a harmonious and peaceful society
• Happiness (Universal Values) - believe that reward for religious life is to have an afterlife in Paradise, Heaven and Nirvana
• Health is a "positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities"
• Emotivism


  Moral judgment express positive or negative feelings
• Emotivism also is a method of non-Cognitivist theory that submits moral judgment are mere expression of our emotions and feelings
• Will


  The faculty of Mind chooses at the moment of making decision, and the strongest desire from among the various desires
• Some hold that reason and emotion are not really opposites
• Many times, ethical judgments are highly emotional as people emotionally express their strong approval or disapproval of different acts
• Moral courage demands us to make judgments about what behavioural acts are supportive of our ethical ideologies or highest ideals, and which ones are destructive
• When we become conscious of ourselves, we recognize that our essential qualities are endless urging, craving, striving, wanting, and desiring
• Legal rights


  The kind of rights that enjoys the recognition and protection of the law
• Bioethics


  Concerned with issues about life, biomedical researches, medicines, health care and the medical profession
• Sexual Ethics


  Examines topics like homosexuality, lesbianism, polygamy, premarital sex, loveless sexual relations and contraceptive use. It studies sexuality and human sexual behavior
• Teleological ethical system


  Judges the rightness of an act in terms of an external goal or purpose
• Utilitarianism


  The most influential consequentialist theory
• For Aquinas, happiness consist activities in accordance with virtue
• Millennials were born on (1977 to 1995)
• Millennials has very short attention span
• Millennials came of age in a time where the entertainment industry started to be significantly influenced by the Internet
• Millennials Being the most ethnically and racially varied compared to the generations older than they are, Millennials nonetheless are seem to be the most educated
• Basic traits ascribed to millennials

  • Confident
  • Sheltered
  • Team oriented
• Religion


  People's beliefs and opinions concerning the existence, nature and worship of a deity or deities and divine involvement in the universe and human life
• Gen Z were born on 1996 and later
• Gen X is entrepreneurial, flexible and self-reliant
• Baby boomers see millennials as somewhat greedy, self-absorbed and wasteful
• Baby boomers life principle suggest to attain a good education, get a well paying full time job, find a stable partner, purchase a house and a car and preferably have a child or children
• Globalization


  A process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations
• Globalization is seen as a conscious and active process of expanding business and trade across the borders of all the states
• Globalization seeks to transform the existing international economic system into a unified system of global economics
• In the new system, the globalized economic and political activity will ensure sustainable development for the whole world
• According to Pew's recent report, the stigma around being single has evaporated, leaving more time for young people to explore and find themselves, and that 25% of Millennials would never marry
• One (1) study reveals that their generation views morality as personal and subjective, based on feeling, and nontransferable to others
• Some submit that the difference between religion and ethics is about the disparity between revelation and reason