UNCC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Golden Rule, Gallium
22 Jun 2018
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1.2. The ACU Graduate Attibutes
ACU has a set of what is known as “graduate attributes” - characteristics that
ideally, all graduates would have developed during their time at university
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UNCC100, we will emphasise some of the basic building blocks for the six
graduate attributes concerned.
GA1 - demonstrate respect for the dignity of each individual and for
human diversity
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GA2 - recognise your responsibility to the common good, the
environment and society
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GA4 - think critically and reflectively
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GA7 - work both autonomously and collaboratively
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GA8 - locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information
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GA9 - demonstrate effective communication in oral and written English
language and visual media
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1.3.2. What is the Golden Rule
Know as the 'Ethic of Reciporocity'
Universal ethical principle
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Help humans work together to build peaceful, just and sustainable global
society
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Its meassage is simple, unversal and powerful
In “There’s more to life than being happy,” Emily Esfahani Smith
argues that there is a difference between the search for happiness
and the search for meaning in our lives. She maintains that the
search for happiness is a “selfcentered” approach, whereas the
search for meaning extends this horizon to encompass others.
Ultimately, the author claims that it is finding meaning of true and
lasting value that constitutes “a good life.”
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1.4.1 What is the good life?
Hugh McKay
Goodlife is based on the life lived for others and not for self
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Distraction from good life due to looking for personal happiness
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One idea at core of every religion
That goodlife is the life lived for others, and not about e but
treating others people how you want to be treated
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Call it the golden rule
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Aristotle saw that the “good” of humans was to flourish as individuals,
but he reasoned that as humans are also social beings, their flourishing is
dependent on the flourishing of others as well
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1.4.3 When Flourishing Doesn’t Happen
When people arent allowed to flourshied based on others not allowing them
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Discrimination
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To truly florish human need eachother
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Ubuntu "I am who I am beacues of who we all are"
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The Golden Rule "Do unto others are you would have them do unto you"
United Human Right Viedo, what is human rights
Human
A member of the homo sapien species, a man, woman or child a person
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Rights
Things to which you are entitled or allowed; freedoms that are
guaranteed
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Human rights
The rights you simply have becaues youre human
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How you deserve to be treated as a person
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Apply to absoultly everyone, everywhere and is the exact same
(universal)
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Total 30 human rights, eg.
Right to life
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We are all born free and equal
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Freedom of religion
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At first no human rights, had to be in right group to be safe
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Cyprus the Great, slaves were free and free to choose religion, Birth of
human rights
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Natural Law became Natural Rights became Human Rights
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After world wars formed the United Nations to protect all humans
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When signed it didn’t have the force of law its optional
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Module 1
Document Summary
Acu has a set of what is known as graduate attributes - characteristics that ideally, all graduates would have developed during their time at university. Uncc100, we will emphasise some of the basic building blocks for the six graduate attributes concerned. Ga1 - demonstrate respect for the dignity of each individual and for human diversity. Ga2 - recognise your responsibility to the common good, the environment and society. Ga8 - locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information. Ga9 - demonstrate effective communication in oral and written english language and visual media. Help humans work together to build peaceful, just and sustainable global society. In there"s more to life than being happy, emily esfahani smith argues that there is a difference between the search for happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. She maintains that the search for happiness is a selfcentered approach, whereas the search for meaning extends this horizon to encompass others.
