UNCC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Civil Rights Movements, Katherine Paterson, Mahatma Gandhi
28 May 2018
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Katherine Paterson
UNCC300 Justice & Change
Week 4
-Human Dignity
-Dignity - the quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness,
-What dignity to you give to yourself for your individual growth?
-What dignity do you assign other people? > Gardner’s Thesis on 9 different forms of
intelligence and every person in some way is intelligent > no one can be dumb
-Dignity is something every human has because they are simply human and because
humans possess certain capacities that other creatures do not possess
-Dignity we can acquire or lose > either through their own feelings of self-worth or lack of
self worth // through certain dignity bestowing or dignity removing behaviours
-Declaration of Human Rights > excellent reference for 2nd/3rd assessment task
-Cyrus the Great made the Cyrus Cylinder > Magna Carta document > Old world Wars,
Mahatma Ghandi, two world wars and Civil rights movements to prove natural law were
natural rights > post war created United Nations in 1948 to create a list of 30 Human
rights “The universal declaration of human rights”
-Human trafficking and smuggling > trafficking is without consent and smuggling is with
consent > both impinge on the basic human rights of the people involved
-Patriarchal system needs to be abolished with ease in order to achieve equality
-Dont just talk equality, equality must be acted upon > e.g Canada’s parliament has 50%
women and 50% men
-65 million people are currently refugees
-Ass2 > 700 word Op Ed that critically analyses the challenges with realising aspirations
of the common good in your professional community, locally and globally.
-Brainstorm potential issues for assessment 2 > human dignity
Document Summary
Dignity - the quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness, > gardner"s thesis on 9 different forms of intelligence and every person in some way is intelligent > no one can be dumb. Dignity is something every human has because they are simply human and because humans possess certain capacities that other creatures do not possess. Dignity we can acquire or lose > either through their own feelings of self-worth or lack of self worth // through certain dignity bestowing or dignity removing behaviours. Declaration of human rights > excellent reference for 2nd/3rd assessment task. Cyrus the great made the cyrus cylinder > magna carta document > old world wars, Mahatma ghandi, two world wars and civil rights movements to prove natural law were natural rights > post war created united nations in 1948 to create a list of 30 human rights the universal declaration of human rights .
