PHILO 10: ETHICS
MODULE 5
Deontology
Overview
This module will help the students to cater and know that Deontology is based on the light of
one’s reason when maturity and rational capacity take hold of a person’s decision-making. The
activities provided will also help them not only the choices that they will have or will do but as
well as conscience will counterpart their decision-making.
Lessons in this Module
Lesson 1: Duty and Agency
Lesson 2: Autonomy
Lesson 3: Universalizability
At the end of this module, you must be able to:
Discuss the basic principle of deontology
Apply the concepts of agency and autonomy to one’s moral experience; and
Evaluate the actions through these theories to focus on whether ethical decisions per se
are right or wrong, regardless of the consequences or intentions of those ethical
decisions.
PHILO 10: ETHICS
Lesson 1: Duty and Agency
Intended Learning Outcomes
Discuss the action as to what is the right behavior
Define the basic principle of Kant’s duty and the action
Recognize the strengths of Kant’s duty of this theory
Emphasize Kant’s theory of duty in the categorical imperative
Introduction:
WELCOME! You are now in the new chapter of Lesson1 of Module 5. This lecture will guide
and help us know what this duty and agency emphasizes.
Time Frame: 3 days
Activity
This topic is somehow quite related and quite different from the previous discussions. From the
pictures below, list the differences you can tell about their essence.
Man Animal
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Analysis
Among from the listed differences (man and animal), which from those you will consider as the
main ground that man is the highest form of all living animals? Support your answer.
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Abstract
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Application
In what way does rational will distinguish a human being from an animal insofar as the animal
is only sentient?
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Congratulation!
You made it.
Be prepared for the next lesson.