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Monica Frances Hao
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REACTION PAPER
The first seminar that I have attended is the seminar about how to improve our business acumen. The first part was they have played a video about two person that supplies the water to the town. The two people have different strategies. The first person is that he doubles his time to have many water supplies the first person gets the water everyday. While the second person is that he thinks of a strategy that will help him in giving the supplies of water to the city until one day he is already done with his strategy, have already applied it and have already tested it. Well, the speaker relates it in having a business. He said that a person that will succeed always thinks of a strategy that will help the business grow. In a business you cannot predict on what to happen, you cannot predict if you will succeed or not.
The second activity is that I have done a personality test and gave it to my guidance councilor. She said that I am person that is very dependent on the environment.
The third activity that I have done is I have attended the DLS-CSB career fair. I have talked to a lot of business persons and I have also applied to their company. I have learned that I should have more confidence when I am talking to these business persons.
The fourth activity that I have attended is the HR symphosium. The topics that are discussed is about the generation x and the generation y. the speaker distinguished the difference between the two generations. He applied it to the social life, family, school and etc.
What are the 3 significant life changing realizations have you encountered in your college life?
Monica Frances T. Hao January 25, 2009
AOG ORDEV-C
The first significant thing that happened to me in my college life is that in my college life found my first and second boyfriend. I am really afraid of having a boyfriend because I am really afraid to be in a relationship and to be fooled by having a third party involved but my friends told me that why don’t you give it a try? Then I have tried it but it did not last we were in the relationship for just 5 months. My fear became a reality because my ex boyfriend has changed unlike his relationship with me the past months that we were still new. I told myself that I will not have or be in a relationship again but after a few months I have my second boyfriend and until now where still together. I hope that we would last for years. I have realized with that experience that each person is unique and they have different personality. I have also realized that people do change even if you thought that you already know him. People can change in just a snap so I have learned that we should cherish every moment and treasure it. I think that having your first boyfriend doesn’t always mean that you should give everything to him because most of the guys that don’t really love you will just play with you and at the end girls will end up crying. But luckily for me it did not happen although my first boyfriend. I have also realize that in every relationship you have gone through you will always learn from your mistake and as well us change for the best. Now, I can say that I am happy with my current boyfriend and I am treasuring each day that we are together.
The second significant things that happen in my college life is that I have learned to be independent because my parents are away. They are not here to guide me. I have also learned that I should do well in my studies because they are working hard for me to study in a good school. I also learned that I won’t lose the trust that my parents gave me in studying here. This means that I will not do some foolish things like giving them a baby not a diploma. I have seen a lot of pregnant teens and I don’t want to be one of them. I have learned that I should be independent although at first it is not easy for me. At first I am crying to my mom that I already want to go home but I really want to study here and finish my degree so I become brave and face the challenges that I have encountered and will be encountering in the future.
I have also realized that college life is really different from high school life because as what I have seen most of my classmates started smoking and drinking alcohols. I admit that I have tried to smoke and drink but I don’t like the taste of it. I have tried it because of the curiosity I have in mind. I can also say that in college you would also encounter peer pressure. In your college life you could hardly find your true friends because some are just users especially when you have brains and money. Finding true friends is very hard in your college life especially accepting the REAL you and accepting your character and traits. It is also hard to find friends that will help you in building the real ‘YOU’. I believed in the saying that you cannot please anyone with this statement it is really true that not all the people will like you even if you are good to them they will still not like you. I have also encountered that some friends are not equally treated.
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Annette Baier: The Need for More Than Justice
Monica Frances T. Hao ITETHIC
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Book: Contemporary Moral Problems
Author: James E. White
Library Reference: N/A
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Moral-Problems-James-White/dp/0534517242
Quote:
“The differences are as much emphasis
as in substance, or we can say that
they are differences in tone of voice.”
Learning Expectation:
In this chapter of the book “Contemporary Moral Problems” I want to learn what the need for more
than justice is. What will this ethics help me in realizing the good things and bad things that I have done
wrong in the IT industry? I also want to learn in this chapter if what does the information society means?
How does it help the industry? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this? What is the basis of
these moral problems?
Review:
Annette Baier is a teacher of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She authored several
significant books about morality and ethics. Annette said that one cannot regard any version of morality
that does not ensure that caring for children gets well done as an adequate “minimal morality,” anymore
than we could so regard one that left any concern for more distant future generations an optional extra. A
moral theory, it can plausibly be claimed, cannot regard concern for new and future persons as an
optional charity left for those with a taste for it. If the morality the theory endorses is to sustain itself, it
must provide for its own continuers, not just take out a loan on a carefully encouraged maternal instinct or
on the enthusiasm of a self-selected group of environmentalists who make it their business or hobby to be
concerned with what we are doing to mother earth. I think that having an insight of this will helps me
understanding the needs of other people especially the children. Most of the people now a day just leave
their children through the care of their yaya’s and they only care about their children very seldom which
are not good for a child.
Lessons Learned:
In this article I have learned more about Annette Baier. What is the need for more than justice?
And who is Kohlberg? I have also learned about care perspective and justice perspective.
5 integrative questions:
1. Who is Annette Baier?
2. How importance is her work?
3. Who influenced Kohlberg?
4. What is the need for more than justice?
5. How many levels does Kohlberg’s theory have?
REVIEW QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. Distinguish between the justice and care perspectives. According to Gilligan, how do these
perspectives develop?
- Gilligan claims that those women are most unlikely to take only justice perspective, since the care
perspective is a women’s natural role as the primary caretakers of young children.
2. Explain Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. What criticisms do Gilligan and Baier make of
this theory?
- Kohlberg’s version of moral maturity did not seem shared by many young men
3. Baier says there are three important differences between Kantian liberals and their critics. What
are these differences?
- The relative weight put on relationships between equal
- The relative weight put on freedom of choice
- The authority of intellect over emotions
4. Why does Baier attack the Kantian view that the reason should control unruly passions?
- we should never forget the facts of history
5. What does Baier mean when she speaks of the need “to transvalue the values of our patriarchal
past”? Do new values replace the old ones? If so, then do we abandon the old values of justice,
freedom, and right?
- She just meant that we should improve our values.
6. What is wrong with the Kantian view that extends equal rights to all rational beings, including
women and minorities? What would Baier say? What do you think?
- There is nothing wrong with the Kantian’s view.
7. Baier seems to reject the Kantian emphasis on freedom of choice. Granted, we do not choose our
parent, but still don’t we have freedom of choice about many things, and isn’t this very important?
- I think that freedom of choice is very important because you cannot exercise your right if you
have no freedom of choice.
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Monica Frances T. Hao ITETHIC
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Book: Contemporary Moral Problems
Author: James E. White
Library Reference: N/A
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Moral-Problems-James-White/dp/0534517242
Quote:
“I shall even assume that the parties do not know their
conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities”
Learning Expectation:
In this chapter of the book “Contemporary Moral Problems” I want to learn what is the theory of justice. What will this ethics help me in realizing the good things and bad things that I have done
wrong in the IT industry? I also want to learn in this chapter if what does the information society means?
How does it help the industry? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this? What is the basis of
these moral problems?
Review:
In A Theory of Justice, Rawls argues for a principled reconciliation of liberty and equality. Central
to this effort is an account of the circumstances of justice, and a fair choice situation for parties facing
such circumstances, and seeking principles of justice to guide their conduct. These parties face moderate
scarcity, and they are neither naturally altruistic nor purely egotistic: they have ends they seek to
advance, but desire to advance them through cooperation with others on mutually acceptable terms.
Rawls offers a model of a fair choice situation the original position with its veil of ignorance within
which parties would hypothetically choose mutually acceptable principles of justice. Under such
constraints, Rawls believes that parties would find his favored principles of justice to be especially
attractive, winning out over varied alternatives, including utilitarian and libertarian accounts.
Good vs. Right. A person’s “good” is that which is needed for the successful execution of
a rational long-term plan of life given reasonably favorable circumstances. Such concepts are
Liberty Opportunity, Income, Wealth and Self-respect. They also have a saying that, “The good is
the satisfaction of rational desire”. Each person has his or her own plan of life – what is good may
vary. Right is set down in the social contract, the same for everyone, influenced by the veil of
ignorance. Rawls specializes the concept of something’s being right as it being fair. Natural
Duties and Obligations, Support just institutions, Mutual respect, Mutual aid, Do no harm, Do your
fair share, be faithful (keep your promises)
Lessons Learned:
I have learned in this chapter about the theory of justice, the main idea of the theory of justice, the
two principles of justice and fair justice. I am amazed with what I have read. I have also learned that
Rawls argues for a principled reconciliation of liberty and equality. Central to this effort is an account of
the circumstances of justice, and a fair choice situation for parties facing such circumstances, and
seeking principles of justice to guide their conduct.
5 integrative questions:
1. What is the theory of justice?
2. Who is John Rawls?
3. What is the main idea of the theory of justice?
4. What are the two principles of justice?
5. How does fair justice begins?
