We all have reasons for every action we have done. Hence, we need to understand why people act and decide differently.

1. REASONING
REY JHONSON L.
PELONITA

2. OPENING
PRAYER

3. ACTIVITY:

8. PROCESS QUESTIONS:
 Why do we suppose that a certain way of acting is right and its
opposite wrong?
 Why do we decide to consider this way of acting as acceptable
while the other way of acting is unacceptable?
 What reasons do we give to decide or to judge that a certain
way of acting is either right or wrong?

9. A person’s or can
provide him a reason for acting in a certain way.
I did not cheat on the exam because I was afraid that I might get
caught.
I looked after my father in the hospital because I wanted to get a
higher allowance.

10. The question then would
be…..
Is this reason good enough?
That is to say, this way of thinking seems to be a shallow way of
understanding reason because it does not show any true understanding of
why cheating on an exam is wrong or why looking after a family member is in
itself a good thing?
The promise of rewards and punishment can motivate us to act, but are not in
themselves a determinant of the rightness and wrongness of a certain way of
acting.

11. My friend is in a situation where she could get a higher grade
by cheating. She refuses to do so; I then praise her for her
decision.

12. Higher level of
thinking
Detaching ourselves from level of
reasoning based on rewards and
punishment, but stating “cheating is
wrong, by recognizing proper reasons
for not acting in this way.

13. Beyond rewards and punishment, it is possible to
base our moral valuation to be based on
….
are rationally established grounds by which one
justifies and maintains her moral decisions and judgment.
One may conclude that cheating is wrong based on a sense of
fair play or respect for the importance and validity of testing.

14. We can maintain principles, but we can also ask what good
reasons for doing so. Such reason may differ:
(Considering the death of Cris Anthony Mendez)
One may say life is sacred and God given.
One may declare that human life has priceless dignity.
One may say that taking another’s life does not contribute to one’s happiness, but
human misery instead.

15. How exactly do we arrive at those
claims?
+Is a systematic attempt to establish the
validity of maintaining certain moral
principles.
+A system of thoughts or of an idea.