THEORY OF ETHICS
1. Compare and Contrast R.A 6713 (The Code of conduct of a Public office), Anti-Graft and Corruption Practices Act, Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007, and Anti-Plunder Law of the Philippines by discussing their commonality and differences. Include in your discourse the purposes, salient features, components, merit and demerit of the law.
2. Do you agree with Constantino belief that there is moral bankruptcy in Philippines Public ethics and morality. Justify your answer by discussing the concept of Public ethics, Morality, Responsibility and Accountability in the light of each concepts definition, elements, dimensions, strategies and purposes.
Moral bankruptcy the state a person reaches when he trades away or violates too many of his core moral values and commitments. He may also lose important relationship either as a cause or consequences of his loss of moral commitments. Someone who is morally bankrupt may or may not recognize that he has reached this state.
3. There is no universal definition of ethics but we can describe the concept according to people orientation and perspective. Explain comprehensively the categories of the theory of Ethics viz a viz the sources of Public Ethics.
There are four categories in theory: ABSOLUTIST THEORIES, RELATIVIST THEORIES, UTILITARIAN THEORIES, DEONTOLOGICAL THEORIES. First is the Absolutist theory it is an ethical view that particular actions are intrinsically right or wrong. Example for that is stealing we might considered it always as an immoral, even if done for the well- of being of others because they are stealing food or money jut to feed their starving family, and even if it does in the end promote such a good. Absolutist theory stands in contrast to other categories of normative ethical theories such as consequentialism, which holds that the morality of an act depends on the consequences or the context of the act. It may also be
2. Do you agree with Constantino belief that there is moral bankruptcy in Philippines Public ethics and morality. Justify your answer by discussing the concept of Public ethics, Morality, Responsibility and Accountability in the light of each concepts definition, elements, dimensions, strategies and purposes.
Moral bankruptcy the state a person reaches when he trades away or violates too many of his core moral values and commitments. He may also lose important relationship either as a cause or consequences of his loss of moral commitments. Someone who is morally bankrupt may or may not recognize that he has reached this state.
3. There is no universal definition of ethics but we can describe the concept according to people orientation and perspective. Explain comprehensively the categories of the theory of Ethics viz a viz the sources of Public Ethics.
There are four categories in theory: ABSOLUTIST THEORIES, RELATIVIST THEORIES, UTILITARIAN THEORIES, DEONTOLOGICAL THEORIES. First is the Absolutist theory it is an ethical view that particular actions are intrinsically right or wrong. Example for that is stealing we might considered it always as an immoral, even if done for the well- of being of others because they are stealing food or money jut to feed their starving family, and even if it does in the end promote such a good. Absolutist theory stands in contrast to other categories of normative ethical theories such as consequentialism, which holds that the morality of an act depends on the consequences or the context of the act. It may also be