Ethics 112: Why Be Moral?

West Visayas State University
Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.
High School,Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National
Vocational High School, Janiuay High School)
Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines
*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894
* Website: janiuay.wvsu.edu.ph*Email Address: [email protected]
ROYGIN LASTE BEED IV-A JEE N. TANANGONAN

RAIZA MEDELIN MARCON BEED IV-A INSTRUCTOR
JENEROSE MARBEBE BEED IV-A
ALLYSA MARIE SILBOL BEED IV-A
REPORTER
ETHICS 112
WHY BE MORAL?
 A Morality is central to liking, respecting, and understanding people. What did we find?
Morality was central to evaluation. When deciding whether we like, respect, and understand a
person, we care most about whether that person is moral, more so than whether he or she is
sociable or competent. However, morality was equally important to liking and respecting a
person, yet relatively less important to understanding a person. It may be that understanding
someone is more complex than liking and respecting, and is affected by a wider variety of
personality, behavioral, or relational qualities. It’s also possible that people simply do not
agree on what it takes to understand someone (e.g., I care about morality, but you care more
about competence when trying to understand someone).
 Which moral traits do we care about? Second, not all moral traits were equally important.
Across many traits, honesty, compassion, fairness, and generosity were most important to
liking, respecting, and understanding. Other moral traits, such as purity and wholesomeness,
were seen as less important; even less than certain competent traits (e.g., intelligence,
articulate).
MORAL AND NON-MORAL STANDARDS
 Morality may refer to the standards that a person or a group has about what is right and
wrong, or good and evil. Accordingly, moral standards are those concerned with or relating to
human behavior, especially the distinction between good and bad (or right and wrong)
behavior.
 Moral standards involve the rules people have about the kinds of actions they believe are
morally right and wrong, as well as the values they place on the kinds of objects they believe
are morally good and morally bad. Some ethicists equate moral standards with moral
 values and moral principles.
 Technically, religious rules, some traditions, and legal statutes (i.e. laws and ordinances) are
non-moral principles, though they can be ethically relevant depending on some factors and
contexts.
The following six (6) characteristics of moral standards further differentiate them
from non-moral standards:
• a. Moral standards involve serious wrongs or significant benefits. Moral standards deal
with matters which can seriously impact, that is, injure or benefit human beings.
• b. Moral standards ought to be preferred to other values.
Moral standards have overriding character or hegemonic authority.
• c. Moral standards are not established by authority figures.
West Visayas State University
Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.
High School,Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National
Vocational High School, Janiuay High School)
Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines
*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894
* Website: janiuay.wvsu.edu.ph*Email Address: [email protected]
ROYGIN LASTE BEED IV-A JEE N. TANANGONAN

RAIZA MEDELIN MARCON BEED IV-A INSTRUCTOR
JENEROSE MARBEBE BEED IV-A
ALLYSA MARIE SILBOL BEED IV-A
REPORTER
Moral standards are not invented, formed, or generated by authoritative bodies or persons
such as nations’ legislative bodies. Ideally instead, these values ought to be considered in the
process of making laws.
• d. Moral standards have the trait of universalizability.

Simply put, it means that everyone should live up to moral standards. To be more accurate,
however, it entails that moral principles must apply to all who are in the relevantly similar
situation.
• e. Moral standards are based on impartial considerations.
Moral standard does not evaluate standards on the basis of the interests of a certain person or
group, but one that goes beyond personal interests to a universal standpoint in which each
person’s interests are impartially counted as equal.
• f. Moral standards are associated with special emotions and vocabulary.

Prescriptivity indicates the practical or action-guiding nature of moral standards. These moral
standards are generally put forth as injunction or imperatives (such as, ‘Do not kill,’ ‘Do no
unnecessary harm,’ and ‘Love your neighbor’). These principles are proposed for use, to
advise, and to influence to action. Retroactively, this feature is used to evaluate behavior, to
assign praise and blame, and to produce feelings of satisfaction or of guilt.

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ROYGIN LASTE BEED IV-A JEE N. TANANGONAN

MORAL AND NON-MORAL STANDARDS

ROYGIN LASTE BEED IV-A JEE N. TANANGONAN

• d. Moral standards have the trait of universalizability.

• f. Moral standards are associated with special emotions and vocabulary.

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