Freedom-as-Foundation-for-Moral-Acts.pdf

a study of ethics

1. Let’s learn all about
Freedom as
Foundation for
Moral Acts

2. LEARNING GOALS
Students will understand...
•Explain why only human beings can be ethical
•Define what culture, enculturation, inculturation
and acculturation
•Explain how culture shapes the moral agent

3. •Unlike the lower forms of animals human
persons have a choice or freedom hence
morality applies to human persons
•Dilemmas presuppose freedom.
•Without freedom it is impossible to make
a moral choice.
•Freedom is a prerequisite of ethics and
morality.
ETHICS applies only to Human Persons

4. Id
Structured of Personality (Psych)
Ego
Superego
Impulsive, irrational
driven by desires.
Ethical, Idealistic,
seeks to do what is
right.
•Logical, realistic,
considers consequence.
•The rational conscious
that balances the id
and superego.
Freud’s Personality Theory

5. Culture: How it
defines Moral Behavior
Lesson 3

6. Is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, beliefs and
behaviors.
-Language
-Ideas
-Customs
-Morals
-Laws
-taboos
-Institutions
-Tools
-Techniques
-Habits
-rituals
What is Culture?

7. Ethics are one of the most important factors
influencing our decision-making processes. Ethics
provides a foundation to navigate complex choices,
daily interactions and dilemmas we face in our
everyday lives.

By understanding ethics, we learn to guide our
actions and decisions in a manner that upholds our
moral values, ensuring outcomes that benefit not
only ourselves but also society at large.
ETHICS AND DECISION-MAKING

8. A process of learning from infancy till death, the
components of life in one’s culture.
Enculturation
Ex. African Girls (South of the Sahara) grow up
learning that as a woman she has less rights
and privileges as the African Man. For instance,
a man can marry more than one woman while she
cannot.

9. •Refers to the missiological
process in which the gospel is
rooted in a particular culture and
the latter is transformed by its
introduction to Christianity.
•Is not an action but a process
that unfolds over time. This is a
two way process.
•The cultural modification of an
individual group, or people by
adapting to or borrowing
traits from another culture.
•The merging of cultures as a
result of prolonged contract.
Inculturation Acculturation