Yason, Julius Grant B.

HW 1801-01
Engineering Values and Ethics Score:

1. Differentiate morality vs. ethics. Give an example.

Morals are the principles on which one’s judgments of right and wrong are
based. Ethics are principles of right conduct. So, the two nouns are closely
related and are often interchangeable. The main difference is that morals are
more abstract, subjective, and often personal or religion-based, while ethics
are more practical, conceived as shared principles promoting fairness in social
and business interactions.
Ethics and morals relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct. While they are
sometimes used interchangeably, they are different: ethics refer to rules provided
by an external source, e.g., codes of conduct in workplaces or principles in
religions. Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.

2. Define values and cite the types of values.

Values are standards or ideals with which we evaluate actions, people, things, or
situations. Beauty, honesty, justice, peace, generosity are all examples of values that
many people endorse. In thinking about values it is useful to distinguish them into
three kinds:

Personal values: values endorsed by an individual. For example, some people regard
family as their most important values, and structure their lives so that they can spend
more time with their family. Other people might value success instead, and give less
time to their families in order to achieve their goals.

Moral values: values that help determine what is morally right or wrong, e.g. freedom,
fairness, equality, etc., well-being. Those which are used to evaluate social institutions
are sometimes also known as political values.

Aesthetic values: values associated with the evaluation of artwork or beauty.

3. Define ethics and work ethics.

Ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans
ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or
specific virtues.
Work ethic is a system of values in which central importance is ascribed to work,
or purposeful activity, and to qualities of character believed to be promoted by work
Reference:
http://grammarist.com/usage/ethics-morals/
https://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethics_vs_Morals
http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/value/values.php
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/what-is-ethics/