On this PPT you'll be able to learn about culture and morality based on the Ethics law about self imporvement and character education.

1. Culture and Morality
Dr. Jo-Ann E. Porillo

2. Presentation title 2
Culture
A
• Derived from the Latin word “cultura” or
“cultus” which means care or cultivation.
• Culture as cultivation implies that every
human being is a potential member of
his or her own social group. (She/he
needs other people to provide
opportunities so that potentialities can
translate into achievements. This can
help him achieve self-actualization and
be a contributing member of society.

3. Presentation title 3
• Culture is a social
environment in which a
person is born and wherein
she/he lives together with
other people.
• Hence, culture has a great
impact in the development
of the human person in
varied ways, may it be in
physical, knowledge,
thought, relationship,
religious and moral
development.
Culture

4. Presentation title 4
• Culture is a persons social
heritage that has been
passed from one
generation to the next that
binds the society together.
• It teachers how to relate
with members of society
even outside their own
culture.
• Culture is transmitted,
shared or acquired
through learning as a
social being.
Culture

5. Presentation title 5
• Culture plays a vital
role in the
development of
human person.
• Culture would tell the
members on what to
do, on how to do
things and those
things that should be
avoided.
Culture

6. Presentation title 6
Culture (by anthropologist)
• According to Englishman Edward B. Taylor, culture is that complex
whole which includes knowledge, belief, law, art, moral, custom, and
other capabilities and habits acquired as a member of society.
• In other words, culture refers to the totality of humanly created
world, from material culture and cultivated landscape via social
institutions (political, religious, economic) to knowledge and meaning,
something that human has created and learned in a society.

7. Presentation title 7
Culture (by sociologist)
• According to Landis, culture is a complex set of learned and
shared beliefs, customs, skills, habits, traditions, and
knowledge common to members of society.
• Sociologists define culture as the entire way of life followed
by people and everything learned and shared by people in
society.

8. The Influence of Culture in Moral Development

9. Presentation title 9
1. Culture is always social and communal.
2. The culture defines the normative principles and behaviors of the
society.
3. Culture develops restrictions and set of boundaries and limitations
as we relate with one another.
4. Culture helps generating the character and identity of its people .
5. The culture identifies the authorities or the governing individuals or
group.

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