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1. Morality
Code of Ethics

2. MORALITY
• is the quality of human acts which leads us to
call some of them good and some bad.
• Form the latin means MORALITAS (means
manner, character, proper behavior)

3. The Foundation of the Moral Life
1. Man
2. The Human Other
3. God

4. 1. Man
- WHO is man? WHAT is man?
a.) For Aristotle and the scholastics, man is
rational animal.
b.) Msgr. Fulton Sheen compares him to a
three-level structure the 1st level is his body,
the 2nd level is his soul, & the 3rd level is his
spirit.
c.) Traditional philosophy presents the soul
as the composed of the intellect & the will.
d.) To Teilhard de Chardin, man is a
phenomenon,”a very special phenomenon”

5. • 2. The Human Other
- today when so much conflict is going on in the world due
to violations of human rights, a review of the
traditionalists’ charge that contemporary ethics is weak
in its vagueness of personal relationships and moral
choices, as well as for the contemporaries’ charge that
traditional ethics is frustrating in its formalism and
concentration on acts instead of persons

6. • 3. God
- perfectly good

7. The Determinants of Morality
• The act in itself
• The motive of the act
• Circumstances of the act
– Who - How
– What - when
– Where
– With whom
– Why

8. Human acts
Characteristics of Human Act
• It must be performed by a conscious agent
who is aware of what he is doing of its
consequences.
• It must be performed by an agent who is
acting freely , that is , by his own violation and
powers.
• It must be performed by an agent who
decides willingly to perform the act.

9. Kinds of Human Act
1. Elicited Acts – voluntary uses of
understanding and will
2. Command Acts – are perfected by the action of
mental and bodily power under the control of
the will, or so to spread under orders from the
will.

10. Actions that are classified into:
• Moral – refers to the action which are on
conformity with the norm of morality
• Immoral – Actions which are not in conformity
with the norm of morality
• Amoral – action which stand neutral in
relation to the norm of morality.

11. Isssues Concerning Man’s Morality
• Abortion
• Contraception
• Divorce
• Euthanasia
• Homosexuality
• Pornography
• Sexuality
• Cloning