Learning Objective/s
To state the lessons learned at home and school about honesty and truthfulness and how they could be applied in life
Ta analyze the deeper meaning of truthfulness
To recognize the different offenses and violations against truthfulness
Success Criteria
The learners are able to:
State the lessons learned at home and school about honesty and truthfulness and how they could be applied in life.
Analyzed the deeper meaning of truthfulness.
Recognized the different offenses and violations against truthfulness.
Discussions
Recall your personal experience on how you were trained to be honest and truthful at home and in school.
a. What have you learned and how did you apply them in your life?
how do you constantly apply honesty and truthfulness in dealing with others?
What difficulties have you experienced in practicing honesty and truthfulness?
Ho do you value these two important virtues?
Truthfulness is one of the important virtues that must be taugth not only in theory but most especially in practice and personal witnessing. It starts from being honest in saying or doing simple little things coupled with discipline and genuine concern for others.
Truthfulness is the virtue which consists of being truthful in deeds and in words and in guarding duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy. It is uprightness in human action and speech. It requires acknowledgment of a person's value, not only by internal affirmation but also by external marks of respect.
There are Principal Duties of Honor:
Regard for One's Honor
Everyone must care for his or her good name. Responsible care for one's honor is lawful and obigatory. A person has the right and the duty to defend himself or herself against unjust attacks which injure his or her honor seriously. In extreme cases, the person may ask refuge in legal action in court in order to protect his or her good name.
Respect for One's Neighbor
Justice demands that honor for others be respected.
a. Special honor - due to those in office since they represent the community and minister to its good.
b. Old people - special honor because of their life experience, hard work, and labor in serving the generation.
c. Respect for parents
Even the dead retain their right to the good esteem pf posterity, for every man wishes to live in grateful memory of mankind.
Ministry and Duty of Correction
Fraternal correction - a fault of a person in order to turn him or her away from doing wrong.
It is private in nature but not in judicial force.
Conditions in Giving Fraternal Corrections:
a. The person must be in real need of help.
b. There must be able a well-founded hope that the correction will prove fruitful.
c. The correction must be possible without disproportionate
The Right Manner of Correction:
a. Fraternal correction
b. The manner of correction
c. In order to save the feeling and reputation
The Virtue of Truthfulness and its Duties:
Truthfulness in thought
Truthfulness in Conduct means that a person acts and lives in conformity with his or her thoughts and words.
It is the duty of all not only to speak the truth but also to adhere to the truth once it is known.
Truthfulness in Words - that whatever stated in words should be in harmony with the person's internal thoughts and knowledge
Offenses against Truth:
Lying- it is intentional misinterpretation of the truth by word, gesture, and or even silence
Kinds , Motivations, and Situation of lying:
a. white lies(pasiklab)- exaggerating one's qualities
b. fear escapist lying (palusot) - preserving one's supposed good image before others or avoiding possible recrimanation
c. Careless lying (sabi-sabi) - saying something wrong because of the hearsay without sufficient evidence
d. Flattery (bola) - telling something good about a person or a group to win their trust or gain favor from them
Some lies more serious in nature:
e. Propaganda for profit -
f. Silence (pa-simple)
False Witness and Perjury
Detraction, Slander, Calumny ( Paninirang Puri)
a. Rash Judgment
b. Detraction
c. Calumny
More common is tale bearing for children and gossip for adults
Gossip - spreading bad story
Influence of Customs and Traditions
Product of Wrong Concept and Beliefs
VOCABULARY
slander - the spoken statement or false accusation that harms a person's reputation
libel - anything written or printed that harms reputation in an unfair way
perjury - the act of telling a lie on purpose after taking an oath to tell the truth
fraud - the act of cheating or lying
plunder - to take away by force
virtue - habitual or firm disposition to do good
theory - an explanation of how or why something happens especially one based on scientific study and reasoning
fidelity - the quality of being true to one's promise and duty
duplicity - the practice of dealing with others in a tricky or dishonest way, deception
dissimulation - to hide one's feeling by pretending to have different ones
hypocrisy - pretending to be good, kind, honest, loyal, sympathetic without really being so
affirmation - a positive declaration
refuge- shelter or protection from trouble or danger
esteem - respect and admiration
posterity - people of future time
fraternal - brotherly
judicial - law court
modesty - not boastful
prudence - to make a sensible decision in practical matters
benevolence - a tendency to do good, kindness, generosity
conformity - following of rules, orders, customs, or accepted ideas
adhere- to follow closely or faithfully
evade - to keep away or avoid
recrimination- a charge made by accused against hir or her accuser, counter charge
amends - something given or done to make up for some injury
Cross Curricular Link
Real- Life Application
Evaluation