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Lesson I. Course Orientation and the Importance of Rules

This document discusses the importance of rules in society, emphasizing that they are meant to create order and support moral behavior rather than restrict freedom. It explores the concept of moral standards, moral dilemmas, and the role of culture in defining morality. The text also highlights the ideal state where individuals act morally without the need for rules, as they have internalized moral standards.

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Lesson I. Course Orientation and the Importance of Rules

This document discusses the importance of rules in society, emphasizing that they are meant to create order and support moral behavior rather than restrict freedom. It explores the concept of moral standards, moral dilemmas, and the role of culture in defining morality. The text also highlights the ideal state where individuals act morally without the need for rules, as they have internalized moral standards.

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ETHICS: CHAPTER I

UNDERSTANDING
MORALITY AND MORAL
STANDARDS
Lesson I. Course
Orientation and the
Importance of Rules
Prepared by:

JESSA MAE R. BRIONES, LPT, MATE


Assistant Professor I
FOCUS QUESTIONS:
1. What are moral standards? How do they differ from other rules
of life?
2. What is a moral dilemma? What are three levels of mora
dilemma?
3. Why is freedom crucial in our ability to make moral decisions?
4. What is the advantage of owing moral standards (morality and
ethics) over merely abiding by moral standards?
5. How does culture define moral behavior?
6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Filipino
character?
7. Are there universal values?
Course Orientation and The
Importance of Rules
• Intended Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this topic, the learners will be able to:
• To state what are expected in this course;
and
• To explain the importance of rules.
Introduction
Everywhere you go are rules
– at home, at school, in church, in
the barangay.
• Do these rules make our life
more difficult and so should be
eliminated or do these rules
make our life more peaceful and
orderly?
Introduction

Imagine your life, your home,


your school, your Church and
community without rules.

In this lesson, we’ll study about


the importance of rules.
Abstraction
Rules are important to social beings.
Just imagine the chaos that results from the
absence of rules.
• What happens when students and
professors alike come to school in any attire
they want?
• Imagine what happens when in the
classroom everyone wants to talk at the
same time.
Abstraction
Let’s go out of the classroom for more
examples.
• What if there were no traffic rules?
Rules can be expanded to include the
Philippine Constitution and other laws.
• What if there were no Constitution and other
laws of the land?
Abstraction
Rules are meant to set order. Rules (the
Philippine Constitution and other laws
included) are meant for man.
The greatest Teacher, Jesus Christ, preached
emphatically, “The Sabbath is made for
man and not man for the Sabbath”.

The law of the Sabbath, i.e. to keep it holy and


observe rest, is meant to make man whole by
resting and by giving him time to thank and
spend time in prayer and worship for his own
good.
Abstraction
For the sake of order in
society, everyone is subject
to rules. In a democratic
country like the Philippines,
we often hear the statement
“No one is above the
law,” including the highest
official of the country. We are
all subject to rules or else
court chaos.
Abstraction
Rules are not meant to restrict
your freedom. They are meant to help
you grow in freedom, to grow in your
ability to choose and do what is good
for you and for others. If there are
rules or laws that restrict your ability or
strength to do good, they are
suffocating laws and they are not
good laws. They ought to be abolished.
Any rule or law that prevents human
persons from doing and being good
ought to be repealed. They have no
reasons to exist.
Abstraction
In fact, if you are a rule or a law-
abiding citizen, you don’t even feel the
restricting presence of a rule or law because
you do what the law or what the rule states
everybody should do. Looking from a higher
point of view, this is the state when one
acts not because rules demand it but
because one sees he has to act that
way. It is like saying one no longer needs the
rule or law because one has become mature
and wise enough to discern what ought
to be done.
Abstraction
This is an ideal state which the
ancient Chinese sages (Confucius,
Lao Tzu) referred to as state of no-
more rules, no-more laws, because
people discern what is right or
good and do what is right or good
without thinking or a rule or law;
people are no longer in need of a
government because they can
govern themselves. It is a state
where one owns the moral
standard not just abide by the moral
standard.
Key takeaways
• Rules are meant to set order in society.
• Rules are intended for human persons. They are not meant to
limit a person’s freedom which is the ability to choose and do
what is good. Rather rules are meant to help persons choose and
do what is good.
• Those who do what is good don’t even feel the presence of a rule
that prevents them from doing what is not good. It is those who
intend to do the opposite of what is good that feel the suffocating
and limiting presence of a rule.
• When society is ideal, i.e. when all persons are good and do only
what is ideal then there will be no more need for rules and laws
according to Lao Tzu.
Application
1. The Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
What does this mean? Illustrate with an example.
2. Rules/laws are made for the good of man. State the good that is
derived from the following school rules:
1. No ID, No Entry
2. Student/Teacher Tardiness beyond 15 minutes means absence
3. Any form of cheating is punishable with suspension.
4. Use of illegal drug is punishable with dismissal.
3. Give an example of a constricting rule or law. What should be done with
it?
4. The ancient Chinese sage named Lao Tsu taught: "Leave the people
to themselves, no laws and inner goodness will flourish." "The
more laws and commands there are, the more thieves and
robbers will be." Do you agree? Why or why not?

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