UNCC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tearfund, Cafod
24 Jun 2018
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Human Flourishing and the Common Good
Graduate Attribute 1: demonstrate respect for the dignity of each individual
and for human diversity
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Graduate Attribute 2: recognise your responsibility to the common good,
the environment and society
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Graduate Attribute 4: think critically and reflectively
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Graduate Attribute 7: work both autonomously and collaboratively
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Graduate Attribute 8: locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate
information
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Graduate Attribute 9: demonstrate effective communication in oral and
written English language and visual media
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4.1 The Common Good
4.1.1 What Do People Say About the Common Good?
Understanding cant reach full potential without a just society
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Respect of human dignity
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Connected to everything and having a deep connection with collective
wellbeing
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Working to achieve what is good for all
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4.1.2 Human Flourishing
Human Flourishing through Reciprocity
every single human being, irrespective of their culture, language and
differences, elements that are binding them together. Elements,
virtues, such as love, understanding, humility, and above all, the
principle of unity.
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We find out that owning homes is becoming a desire that many of the
young cannot afford to do that. And that statement that it created
between the gaps of rich and poor is becoming more and more evident.
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That we create a sense of togetherness, that we understand our neighbour
is one of our family members. That we understand that those who are in
need, it is our responsibility to look after them.
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Aristotle on Flourshing: How to live the good life
Live virtuously
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Flourishing a success life lived will together
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how to flourish by cultivating the virtues. Every virtue is a disposition to
behave in certain ways that lies between two extremes. Courage,
feeling the fear but doing it anyway, lies between cowardice (when you
feel the fear and can’t do it) and recklessness (when you don’t feel the
fear when you should). Generosity lies between stinginess (when
you’re mean) and profligacy (when you throw your money around)
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Aristotle’s doctrine of the Golden Mean
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Headline findings from a survey of the public conducted on behalf of CAFOD,
Theos and Tearfund http://www.catholicsocialteaching.org.uk/wp-
content/uploads/2010/11/CAFOD-Theos-Topline-Findings_Oct-2010-3.pdf
Good reference with lots of stats on happiness surveys
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The principle of the common good
Common Good states that the good of each human person is intimately
related to the good of the whole community.
The human person, made in God’s image, is both a sacred being
and a social being.
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The human person can only flourish in community.
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The rights and duties of human persons are realized and carried
out in community, which includes the community of the family
along with the wider society and world.
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The good of each individual in society is intimately connected to
the good of the wider group or society.
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Participation, peace, proper exercise of limited authority and the
safeguarding of rights are necessary conditions for the principle
of Common Good.
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The principle of common good relies on two central understandings
which provide the conditions necessary to achieve the common good.
1. The human person is social by nature (born into a fabric of
relationships) and needs others in order to thrive. Life is not lived
in isolation but for the formation of social unity.The Common
Good recognizes that all persons must contribute to life in
society, and all persons must share in the mutual benefits of life
in society.
2. The human person must be surrounded by a set of rights and
duties that are guaranteed so that there are minimum standards
that support life in society.
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Three Essential Elements of the Common Good:
1. Respect for the human person - made in God’s image
2. Social well-being of the group and the development of the
group
3. Peace, stability, and the security of a just order
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Module 4
Document Summary
Graduate attribute 1: demonstrate respect for the dignity of each individual and for human diversity. Graduate attribute 2: recognise your responsibility to the common good, the environment and society. Graduate attribute 7: work both autonomously and collaboratively. Graduate attribute 8: locate, organise, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information. Graduate attribute 9: demonstrate effective communication in oral and written english language and visual media. Understanding cant reach full potential without a just society. Connected to everything and having a deep connection with collective wellbeing. Working to achieve what is good for all. Human flourishing through reciprocity every single human being, irrespective of their culture, language and differences, elements that are binding them together. Elements, virtues, such as love, understanding, humility, and above all, the principle of unity. We find out that owning homes is becoming a desire that many of the young cannot afford to do that.
