Lesson 6 (Part 1): Making Informed Decisions

0:01 hi welcome back to my channel this is jo brand so in this videos i'll be sharing to you our last lesson in the subject of ethics and that is making informed decisions but before i'll do that i would like to say thank you for all your support for your unending love towards my channel i know this is very new to me but because of your support and unending um love for me so i never thought i would go this far but i know we can do this and i know i can do better than this so i i hope you like this video so this is our last lesson the subject of ethics okay so why do we need to understand making informed decisions so as we all know that

0:46 there are a lot of factors that shape our moral decision making and sometimes we get so confused right when you talk about making decision making make knowing the right or the wrong thing when you talk about in decisions and for us to understand that is we need to to embrace the idea of of some filipino philosopher okay so let's talk about this one ramon si reyes in making decisions in making decisions as we are the one responsible for it and according to him we are the one task to think about what is right

1:35 what is the best thing to do and what is the best choice because we have our rationale decision making we know how to think we belong to homo sapiens we are the thinking being we are the thinking thing so that's why if you are the thinking thing you are the soul responsible of your decisions because you have your own decisions so according to reyes okay according to mr reyes is naturally guitar that who one is so according to him if we want to understand

2:23 our own decisions if an atom decision is the right thing or the wrong thing to do is we need to understand a lot of cross points across points so what do you mean is so according to him we have our own identity a lot of forces environmental forces

3:14 four cross points in understanding it's because of a lot of cross points number one is the physical we have the physical point physical physical point is your is your body is your according to him is the physical events that is happening that is happening in your life so previous surpassed your physical event in the past and the material factors in the present experience of physical events plus

4:08 those are parts of your physical cross points so the second factor is is the interpersonal cross points

4:56 so what do you mean by interpersonal cross points interpersonal is an immune relations relationship uh

5:44 so we are shaped by our relationship that's why kung mindo tangible relationships

6:54 towards making decisions and the third one is the society the physical the interpersonal and the society society is all the elements those are all parts of our society take note all the elements your friends your family your colleagues anyone as long as those are part of your society and then according to him the way you think about yourself or you understand your physical being your who one is your who am i or the thinking thing is possibly

7:43 influenced by the society and the culture take note our society and culture are considered as the larger the large part of human existence that our society is very influential because we are surrounded by a lot of people we are surrounded by so many things we are surrounded with so many factors that's why understand the muslim self that's why we get so confused on what to think about ourselves because we are so bombarded with so many things right so since we are part of the society possibly we

8:29 are influenced our thinking about ourselves is possibly influenced by our society and culture okay so take note the natasha physical the interpersonal and if affected therefore the un place na na society is possibly influential for me that's true because our society plays a big roles at our saton okay so the fourth cross point is the historical so the way you understand yourself the way you think about yourself the

9:16 who am i the who one is according to mr ramon reyes is we are influenced by the events that from the we are influenced from the events that we had before we are influenced by our historical

10:20 that's how you think about yourself instead of improving yourself to be better history experience because you are not improving you are not uh not going to improve as a person i think it's time for you to let go those events pain are the cause of your suffering so but england would see reyes nah this is not just a product of all the of all these cross points and it's not all about the cross

11:11 points delete language launcher one-sided right so let's not let's not just focus on one aspect according to him the who one is is also a project for oneself what do you mean a project for oneself because we have our obligation take note we have our we as humans we have our freedom freedom to choose what is good or what is the right thing to do for our lives and we are tasked to to know what is right for us so that's why it is a project so meaning if you think that you can do better than this then try to to to create something out of it

12:02 that's why when you talk about project it's not an elite launcher overnight no project no it's a long term project because you are dealing about yourself because human human as we are we have our own freedom but our freedom is not absolute i have my own freedom i can do this i can do everything i'll do this because i have freedom but our freedom is not limitation right delicious infinite freedom we have our own limitations we have the actually as as humans we have our ability to give ourselves direction to give ourselves

13:01 so we have our own freedom to choose but our freedom is not absolute it's not the uh dilisha the part when you think about freedom uh limitation based on your ideal ideal self freedom freedom sometimes so it's not absolute okay so we need to understand our existential level so in understanding freedom

14:00 experience of pain okay so i know that understanding ourselves the who am i or the who one is is a product of a lot of forces and then about the who one is and how we and how we can understand ourselves better okay so let's

14:48 try to see the relationship between ethics and one's own culture in godzilla in understanding ethics now we hold on to the opinions that one's culture dictates what is right or wrong right the relationship between ethics and culture so with we tend to internalize

15:49 therefore you are part of the society and culture because you are following it okay so but england see james rachel an american philosopher ninoxianga he truly defined or explained to us the idea of cultural visa okay so what do you mean by this relationship huh ethics or culture because according to him there is no such thing as objective truth in the realm of morality

16:51 argument is this we have different cultures yes and we have different moral codes yes so there is no standard of knowing what is right or wrong with

17:39 about the cultural relativism and he clearly stated we don't have the right to criticize the practices of beliefs of other person of another culture in short continued and cultural relativism we have no right to criticize other culture the second argument is if cultural relativism was correct then one cannot even accept that moral progress can happen it means cultural

18:54 no

20:17 okay so and young pastor but is despite down at different cultures we have different ways of doing things and cultures may also hold certain values in common so not a common among our values

21:04 until now so we just need to respect differences in cultures right so well that that is good for them so i'm opening that is good for us so that is the idea okay so that is the idea of racial about the ethics and the culture the relationship young argue gets expound but they accept now despite of our differences despite of we have

21:55 different ways of doing things we we have our common ground when it comes to understanding differences in culture okay so the the second is let's try to see the the uh differences are the relationship between religion and ethics so based on what uh ramon sirius clearly stated now when you talk about religion we have a lot of religions are worldwide so is based on our own religion okay okay no it's okay that you follow on a readings interpretation

22:41 but the main idea of uh mr ramon reyes is we as the moral agent we should be we should be accountable we should be in full responsibility about using our own power of rational rationality muhammad by using your own rational will by you using your own power of rationality you should be in full recognition about your own decision when you talk about the religion and

23:28 ethics many people consider themselves religious right yeah because of the teachings of their own religion okay so since the religion so we just have to respect and be in full accountable about our own interpretations about the right or the wrongness of such action okay so that is my topic for this afternoon so i really hope that you are you are learning

24:14 from all the videos that i've posted and thank you so much for watching this video i really hope that you are you will be con continue to support me so to those my to those who don't understand bisaga i am very sorry but i'll try to speak in english as much as i can so so asylum is i'll practice more i'll do more hopefully you will be able to appreciate the effort that i've made throughout this video thank you so much for watching i'll see you again for my next video by the way this is just my part one discussion in the subject of informed decisions making informed decision because this is a very long

25:01 long topic so this is my part one i'll be having my part two part three part four so keep watching and just keep posting thank you so much for watching god bless