This document outlines the topics to be discussed in a business ethics and governance philosophy course. The topics include: moral and non-moral standards; morality and etiquette; morality and law; and morality and professional codes of ethics. Moral standards are concerned with human welfare, take priority over other considerations, and depend on adequate justification. Laws are rules enforced by a community to regulate its members' actions. Professional codes of ethics are rules meant to govern conduct in a given profession.

1. Philosophy 103:
Business Ethics and
Good Governance
Roselyn Lebantocia
Whitney Chin Plaza

2. Topics to be
discussed:• Moral and Non-moral Standards
• Moral and Etiquette
• Morality and Law
• Morality and Professional Code of

3. Moral and Non-moral Standards

4. Moral and Non-moral Standards
Whatfalls outsideof
thesphereof moral
concernis termed
Non-moral.
It’s violationdoes no
poseaserious threat
tohumanwell-being

5. Moral and Non-moral Standards
Characteristics:
1.Concerned of the serious
consequence to human
welfare
2.Moral Standards take
priority overother

6. Moral and Non-moral Standards
Characteristics:
3.Theirsoundness depends
on the adequacy of the
reasons that justify them.

7. Moral and Non-moral Standards
MORAL NON-VS

8. MORALITY
AND
ETIQUETTE

9. ETIQUETTERefersto any special codeof
behavior courtesy
Socially Appropriateand Socially
Inappropriate

11. Scrupulous
observance of
rules does not
make one moral.

12. MORALITY AND

13. LAWis the system of rules that
a particularcountry or
community recognizes as
regulating the actions of its
members and may enforce by
the imposition of penalties.

14. Four Kindsof Law
1.Statutes – law enacted by legislative bodies
a. Ordinances- laws enacted by local
governing bodies such as city councils.
b. Administrative regulations –
boards oragencies whose function is issuing
detailed regulations
2. Regulations - a rule ordirective made and

15. Four Kindsof Law
3. Common Law - laws applied in the English
speaking
- derived from custom and
judicial precedent.
4. Constitutional Law - the body of law that
evolves from a constitution, setting out the
fundamental principles according to which a state

16. MORALITY AND
PROFESSIONALCODEOF
ETHICS

17. PROFESSIONAL
CODEOFETHICS
Rulesthat aresupposed to govern
theconduct of membersof agiven
profession.

18. Lawyer Businessman

19. Teacher Nurse

20. Membersof aprofession
areunderstood to have
agreed to abideby these
rulesasacondition of
their engaging in that

21. Violationsof the
professional codemay
result in thedisapproval
of one’sprofessional

22. SOURCES
• Padilla, Reynaldo A. Business Ethics.
Manila, Philippines: Rex Book Store, Inc.
2004
• Shaw, William H., Business Ethics.