Synthesis Paper (Prelims to Finals)

According to Mother Teresa “Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love” Yeah, it is partly true, even in simple ways we can do good for others; we can learn from this small things and we can be happy from this experiences.  I learned a lot from our subject (Ethics and Philosophy) such as science and virtue, relativism philosophy, religion, morality, fallacies, human as a person, laws and rights, and many more.

Philosophy and Ethics had been a great influence regarding the development of ourselves as a human. One of the major factors is that the way we think, the way we perceive things around us. The way we understand life and developed your real self as a person, would help you answer the big questions about yourself.  It also taught me about the values, morality, being a critical thinker, the truth and reality.

It also taught us to know what is the significance of human as a person, that human then was the image of God. We were created by God, and were given the gift of knowledge, and free will to do whatever we wanted. Man was the most perfect in the whole nature, because we were showered the knowledge to think unlike other creatures in the world.

Our professor taught us the different fallacies, the argumentative statements that may affect us as a human. We were taught on how these fallacies were applied in different situation/ events. Also, we were taught about the real meaning of science and virtue, the relationship of each philosophy with one another. The morality was also explained regarding being moral and immoral. Different laws and rights of human were taught with us.

We were given a lot of activities and school works about this topics and issues, for us to know more about this. During the whole semester, we learned to make reaction paper in a specific topic that was given by the professor. We learned to make essays, and we learned how to read even deep issues about philosophy and ethics. A lot of examples were provided by our professor like reading materials, videos about the topic, and many more.

“The unexamined life is not worth living” -- Socrates

The last topic that was discussed is all about laws and rights. It talks about Bioethics,Work ethics,Code of ethics, and Environmental Ethics.

The class was divided into different groups and was assigned different topics to discuss. The first group discussed about, arguments regarding surrogacy, cheating, and other issues. The topic about the arguments against lying, it is being unjust and unfair to others. There are different types of lying including lying itself, white lie, and cheating. These lying include breaking promises, it implies certain agreements, and it is a form of dishonesty. Once a promise was break to a certain person, there will be negative effect on the person. One of which is, destruction of relationship that could affect person’s life choices, and could have destruction of social trust as well as loss of personal integrity.

The second group discussed about Bioethics. Bioethics is the study of morality in relation to Medicine, Genetics, and other scientific advancement. It also tackles the issues regarding Bioethics such as cloning, stem cell therapy, mercy killing, abortion, and many more. Different principles about bioethics was also presented like the principle of respect  for autonomy of patient, principle of non-maleficence, principle of beneficence, and lastly, principle of justice. Major Dilemma regarding bioethics was showed. The premises if medical break thoughts like stem cell therapy, cloning, and mercy killing promotes life.

The third group discussed about the Work Ethics. Work ethics is related to the morality within the work. It includes the roles of an employer, personal manager, and etc. It also includes the personality, attitude, character, productivity of a person in specific organization.  One of the roles of the personal manager that was discussed by the group is that, they act as a counselor they are the power planning and recruiter for the employee. They have also discussed the laws concerning the employees’ rights. For example, the right of the employee with their salary, and other matters.

Fourth group discussed about the code of ethics, this includes the principles concerning the psychologist rights. It is the morality regarding the personality and rights of the person. Different principles were presented, each of it was related on discussed how it affect us as a psychologist.

Lastly, our group discuss about Environmental Ethics regarding moral extensionism and its issues.  Moral extensionism is an argument in environmental ethics that moral standing ought to extend things such as plants, animals, land and earth. It means that moral extensionism is concerned with the non-human things.  Since environmental ethics is related to the nature, its major concern is plants, animals, and earth, wherein human share and benefit with it. Additionally, it describes the animal rights in relation to human and animals equal rights.  It also says that animals and other creature have the ability to feel pain, and have the capacity of reason.  It is also discussed about the issues regarding environmental ethics and it effects. It also includes the rights about the and laws concerning other non-human beings like plants, animals, lands, and/or the nature itself.  Our group also discussed about the global warming and its effects on earth and human.