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WHAT IS DIGNITY? - Contenido educativo
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Lesson inspired by the CLIL Methodology, about what is and what is the origen of the concept of "dignity". This concept is also related to the current concept of "animal dignity". Various activities are proposed.
Hi guys! This is the second class of the course and we are going to speak about
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the concept of dignity. But first, briefly, we are going to remember what we learned
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the first day. Do you remember? We conclude that the subject ethical values
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is a discipline of philosophy.
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We also conclude that speaking about moral values
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is speaking about us, human beings.
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That led us to think about what we are.
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And at the end of the class, we set up the following.
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First, we are not objects.
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We are subjects.
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We are living beings and, in particular, we are animals
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Second, although we are animals and we share a lot of things with them
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we also differ enormously from them
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Third, the biggest difference is that we are social and rational
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at the same time
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And this let us sense our origin as species to develop a culture, which has influenced our own biological evolution, producing a kind of feedback.
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And fourth, one of the essential elements of our culture is the morality
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And we'll continue speaking about it along the four courses of ESU
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But today, in this second class of the first course
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We are going to focus on a concept
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The concept of dignity
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Are you ready?
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Oh, a moment, guys. First, I have to tell you what are the objectives of this lesson and how I'm going to evaluate you. Do you agree?
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Well, referring to the content, you have to demonstrate that you have internalized the concept of dignity
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and that you are able to use it in any context by a relational way.
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In regards to the language, you have to use a certain specific vocabulary,
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such as present and past verbs, comparative structures and modal verbs.
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In order to evaluate you, once the class is finished,
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you have to complete homework that you have to hand me next class, namely next week.
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These tags could be a little, let's say, about something related to what we are going to comment on today
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Or a little script for a play or a poster
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And, of course, you can look for more information in appropriate resources
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But remember, the project must be totally original and personal.
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And now, what do you know about the concept of dignity?
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Let's do a brainstorming activity for 10 minutes.
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Ok?
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Hmm, I see.
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It seems that there is quite a bit of confusion about the meaning of dignity.
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That's normal, don't worry.
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That's the reason why now we are going to speak about it.
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First of all, where does this concept come from?
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Well, I'll tell you that it comes from Christianity.
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This religion regards the human being as created in the image and likeness of God.
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Thus, Christianity emphasizes the person's value and autonomy, namely his dignity.
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A little later, in Rome, dignity was associated with the prestige, the honor, the reputation, the social status, and the person's respect, and it was acquired along life.
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Much later, in the 18th century, for the philosopher Immanuel Kant, a human being has dignity because he is autonomous and rational.
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The dignity is based in a natural law and therefore it's universal, but at the same time it's a right whose respect is compulsory.
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In the 19th century, philosophers as Schopenhauer or Nietzsche didn't have a very good impression of the human being, at least as he had been conceived by the words until that time.
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So we leap to the 20th century.
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And, well, in the 20th century, the concept of dignity is framed simply in an ethical, personal, and social dimension.
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As a consequence of the Second World War's horrors, and with the hope that they never come back, the idea of a dignity inherent to human beings started to develop until it became definitively respectable.
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Thus, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, was conceived.
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Its preamble speaks of the intrinsic dignity of all members of human family, and its Article 1 affirms that all human beings are born free in dignity and rights.
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From there, all national constitutions are based on this concept of dignity.
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Even though it's an intangible good, every state has the obligation to acknowledge, respect, and protect it.
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Wow! Thank you very much for your attention.
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How it's going?
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Are you following me?
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So, would you say that dignity is something of our body?
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Of course not.
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Would you say that dignity is something of our mind or of our brain's activity?
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Of course not.
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We were born with it.
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But, in this case, you would ask yourselves, what really is dignity?
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Well, from a certain contemporary philosophical point of view,
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the dignity would be a value that we, humans, attribute to ourselves.
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It would have the fury of a universally accepted agreement.
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whose target is all human beings' respect, with the hope that it will make us happier.
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Therefore, as you can see, it's a very hopeful agreement,
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which implies an advance in our civilization.
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I present six activities to practice what we have learned so far.
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Let's do them right now.
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Agree?
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This will take us 25 minutes or so.
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Let's go there.
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At this point, I would like to tell you that the concept of dignity is very closely related
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to some aspects of bioethics.
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Do you know what that means?
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Well, now it's enough to know that there are expert committees advising the authorities
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with a view to deciding whether certain practices in the research and development of science
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are compatible with human dignity.
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But now that's not important.
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At the end of this course, we will return to this topic.
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Another important fact related to the concept of human dignity
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is the current debate about whether the animals, especially our pets, are also owners of dignity.
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Some contemporary movements based on Buddhist ideas and philosophers such as Schopenhauer, 19th century,
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argue that animals are sentient beings who deserve to be respected.
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They claim that respecting them also implies respecting ourselves, because they conceive of human beings as being an inseparable part of nature.
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Unlike Western thought, which claims that we have to know nature to dominate it according to our needs
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groups that defend the animal's dignity conceive of humans as one of them
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so that we can't self-actualize ourselves without respecting nature in general and animals in particular
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Well, we are getting to the end
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What remains is precisely to remind you of the tasks you have to do for the next day
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As I said at the beginning of the class
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It consists in a project that you will use to shape your reflection on human dignity
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and on whether or not we have to accept that animals also have it.
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I repeat that the project could be an essay,
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a script for a play or an elaborate poster,
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but it must be totally original and personal
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and you have to use the specific vocabulary,
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present and past verbs
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as well as modal verbs.
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Of course, you can search more information.
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Anyway, I give you here
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some ideas on you can think for this tax.
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For instance,
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research about animals' rights
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or research what the new law said
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about what to do with the pet of a divorced couple,
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who does the pet stay with, etc.
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Or look for the news of October 2014,
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which tells how a dog named Excalibur was sacrificed
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because its owner had Ebola.
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Finally, you can watch the movie Avatar
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and or search on the internet
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what are the threats
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and the relationships between the navy
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human-shaping inhabitants from Pandora planet
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and their domestic animals
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the ikram
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well, that's all for today
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thank you very much
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and see you next time
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- Autor/es:
- ALICIA ESCALONILLA GONZALEZ
- Subido por:
- Alicia E.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Compartir igual
- Visualizaciones:
- 243
- Fecha:
- 17 de julio de 2017 - 22:52
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- IES JOSÉ SARAMAGO
- Duración:
- 14′ 09″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
- Resolución:
- 1280x720 píxeles
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- 595.60 MBytes
