2. Philosophy is the systematic study of ideas and issues, a reasoned
pursuit of fundamental truths, a quest for a comprehensive understanding
of the world, a study of principles of conduct, and much more. Every
domain of human experience raises questions to which philosophy's
techniques and methods apply.
What makes us human?
Do all people deserve respect?
Who am “I”?
3. Epistemology- a branch of philosophy that addresses the philosophical problems
surrounding the theory of knowledge.
Metaphysics - a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of ultimate reality. It
is customarily divided into ontology and metaphysics.
Aesthetics - a branch of philosophy concerned with the essence and perception of
beauty and ugliness.
Cosmology - a branch of philosophy that deals with the study of the universe as a
whole, including its past and its future.
Social and Political Philosophy - a branch of philosophy primarily concerned with
the nature of legitimate authority, the nature of society, and the relation between the
individual, the community, and the state.
4. Philosophy of Man - the study of all aspects of human life and culture. It examines
such topics as how people live, what they think, what they produce, and how they
interact with their environments.
Logic - commonly known as the art and science of correct thinking. It is a study that
deals with the principles of valid reasoning and argument.
Ethics - is the normative science of the conduct of human beings living in societies;
a science which judges the conduct to be right or wrong, to be good or bad.
5. Etymologically, ethics is derived from the Greek word ethicos, or that which
pertains to ethos the English translation of which is "custom or "character."
Ethics is often called moral philosophy, a study that deals with the principles
and laws governing the morality of the human act.
When ethics deals with the morality of the human act, it means the goodness or
badness, the rightness or wrongness, or the acceptability or unacceptability of human
acts.
6. ETHICS MORALITY
• Provides principles on
the morality of human
acts
• It doesn’t guarantee that
man will be moral
• Provides the theory of
principles of right and
wrong or goodness or
badness
• Morality is nothing else
but doing of ethics
7. GENERAL ETHICS
Presents truths about human acts, and from these truths deduce
the general principles of morality. General ethics is applied to individual in
relation to himself, to God and to his fellow men.
SPECIAL ETHICS
It is applied ethics. It applies to the principles of general ethics in
different departments of human activity, individual and social. It includes
man's relation to the family, to the state and to the world (International
Ethics).
8. 1. Ethics means living in proper way and it is in the development of a
good moral character and virtues that man finds perfection and
understands his purpose of existence.
2. Everybody aims to have peace and harmony among all people, which
is indeed the common interest of the people and the government. The
first way to the moral development of the people is to educate them.
9. 1. Ethics and Logic. Logic is the science and art of correct reasoning.
Ethics is the science of good and proper living.
2. Ethics and Psychology. According to Lupato and Cornista,
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and cognitive (mental)
processes.
3. Ethics and Sociology. Sociology is the scientific study of society and
culture while Ethics is concerned with the moral order, which also
includes social order.
4. Ethics and Economics. Economics is the proper allocation and
efficient use of available resources for the maximum satisfaction of
human wants.
10. 5. Ethics and Education. Education liberates men from ignorance
not only from ethical standards but also from laws that are
implemented by the society.
6. Ethics and Law. Laws imposed by the society must be fair, just,
and humane.
7. Ethics and Art. Man's artistic creation must have a noble
purpose, which should not be offensive to morality.
8. Ethics and Political Science. Political Science is the study of
state and government. Politics covers the administration and
management of our government.
11. MAN IS THE ONLY MORAL BEING
Man has intellect that separates him from all brute creations. Man has the
ability to think before doing a particular action. Man may foresee the
consequences of his actions.
MAN AS A RATIONAL BEING
Man's actions are in accordance with reason. Every action he makes has
purpose and meaning. It is the duty of man to be moral according to Immanuel
Kant.
MAN AS AN ANIMAL
Similarly, both man and animals possess appetency and knowledge.
Animals as similar to man need also to gratify their instinctive sexual desires. But
what separates man from animals is that, man has intellect and free will.