Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
PRE-REQUISITES: NONE
CO-REQUISITES: NONE
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course provides a methodological skills formation for pharmacy and medical technology students to help
them respond to ethical issues and problems that come their way and imparts substantive knowledge to the
students regarding the levels of ethical discourse that they need to understand and negotiate properly.
1. You will acquire methodological skills to help you acquire an educated stance to ethical issues and solve
your ethical problems.
2. You will be provided with substantive knowledge that will help you distinguish the level of ethical
discourse you are negotiating and properly respond to.
Week Content
I. Introduction:
1. What Is?
a. Common Sense – Authority
b. Science – Sense & Mathematical Reason
Natural Science- Nature
(Experimental and Clinical)
Social Science – Society as Artefactual
1. Language:
a. Ordinary Language
Language and Thought
Filipino Language
American English Language
b. Academic Language
Science – operational
Art – figurative
Theology - metaphysical
Philosophy – categorical
C. Logic:
2. Academic
a. Scientific-Inductive Logic/Statistical Logic
b. Philosophical-Deductive Logic/Toulmin Logic
8-9 D. Ethics
1. Possibility of Ethics
2.Ethical Elements
a. Experience/Consciousness
b. Ethical Language
c. Ethical Reasoning
d. Ethical Communication
3. Ethical Research
a. Def. of Research
b. Academic Papers
c. Ethics Class Paper: Synthesis Paper,
Critical Paper, Empirical Case Study (Case Study of
Pharmacy/Medical Technology Professors’ Ethos)
Synthesis Paper
A. Cultural Ethics:
1. Presupposition –Culture
2. Filipino Man, Family
3. Conclusions-
Filipino Act
Filipino End
Filipino Norm of Morality
1. Presupposition – No God
2. Conclusion – Act, End, Means
3.
13-14 D. Specialized Ethics:
1. Bio-Ethics
2. Environmental Ethics
Critical Paper
20 Third Exam
COURSE READINGS:
Chrisman, M. et. al. (eds). (2017). Philosophy for Everyone. New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
Mercado, Leonardo. (1979). Elements of Filipino Ethics. Tacloban City: Divine Word University.
Wells, Samuel. (2017). Introducing Christian Ethics. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
West, Henry. (2004). An Introduction to Mill’s Utilitarian Ethics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press.
COURSE ASSIGNMENS:
Per Grading Period: 50% Class Standing (50% Quiz, 25% Recitation, 25% Paper); 50% Long Exam
Final Grade: 30% First Grading Period; 30% Second Grading Period; 40% Third Grading Period
COURSE POLICIES:
1. Students are expected to be on time for their class, a 15 minute grace period is given before a student
is considered late.
2. Two cumulative tardiness will be equivalent to one absence.
3. Students who incur an absence beyond eleven hours are given an FA (failure due to absences) mark.