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Moral vs Non-Moral Standards Explained

The document outlines the distinction between moral and non-moral standards, emphasizing that moral standards relate to serious ethical considerations affecting human behavior. It details six characteristics of moral standards, including their serious implications, overriding authority, independence from authoritative figures, universalizability, impartiality, and emotional associations. The content is presented by a group as part of a lesson on morality.

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Moral vs Non-Moral Standards Explained

The document outlines the distinction between moral and non-moral standards, emphasizing that moral standards relate to serious ethical considerations affecting human behavior. It details six characteristics of moral standards, including their serious implications, overriding authority, independence from authoritative figures, universalizability, impartiality, and emotional associations. The content is presented by a group as part of a lesson on morality.

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MORALITY

refer to the standards that a


person or a group has about what
is right or wrong, or good and evil.
relating to human behavior
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MORAL AND NON-MORAL

NON-MORAL STANDARD
~ refers to the rules that are unrelated to
moral or ethical considerations.

MORAL STANDARD
~ it has six characteristics further to
differentiate them from non-moral
standards.
MORAL CHARACTERISTICS

A.
Moral Standards involve serious wrongs or
significant benefits.
~ it deals with matters which can seriously
impact, that is injure or benefit human beings.
MORAL CHARACTERISTICS

B.
Moral Standards ought to be preferred to
other values.
~ It has overriding character or HEGEMONIC
AUTHORITY.
MORAL CHARACTERISTICS

C.
Moral Standards are not established by
authority figures.
~ It is not invented, formed, or generated by
authoritative bodies or persons such as
nation’s legislative bodies.
MORAL CHARACTERISTICS

D.
Moral Standards have the trait of
universalizability.
GOLDEN RULE
“DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT YOU WOULD THEM DO
UNTO YOU”
MORAL CHARACTERISTICS
E.
Moral Standards based on impartial
considerations.
~ it does not evaluate standards on the
basis of the interest of a certain person or a
group, but one goes beyond personal interest
to a universal standpoint in which each
person’s interests are impartially counted as
equal.
MORAL CHARACTERISTICS

F.
Moral Standards are
associated with special
emotions and vocabulary.
Any
Question
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Presentation
GROUP 1: LESSON 3

PASCUAL, KZ M.
RIVERA, MARITES
HAO, ARA FUERTE
ESCASA, JOHN ARVIN

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