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The Importance of Communication and Language

Creates Community – we are shaped in a community that shares the same language. The Defining Community, a common language helps define us as members of a community. Language allows us to share experience and values. Conversation Partners help us to achieve our self-definition

"An Effective Communicator" CGE

The Importance of Having Direction in Life

This Catholic Graduate Expectations perfectly demonstrates the concepts we studied in this chapter. By using language and communicating with others we are able to strengthen relationships within the community. Also by listening to others we allow the chance to make new relationships.

Our to particular values shape where we stand on the great issues of life: our Moral Stance. Our identity lies in our commitments. We act on our values, goals, beliefs – they guide our choices. Moral Stance or orientation is linked to identity. Our identity emerges from the direction we take in life. Our actions are based on what we believe and value. Our Commitments and Promises Shape Us. “If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything” Alexander Hamilton

The Importance of Others

The First 3 Aspects

You are responsible for others.

You are your “sister’s and brother’s keeper”. Relationships are a powerful incentive for what you do and how you do it. The other is central to your search for the good.Others help us to become our true selves. The human person is relational.

Our actions are motivated by others, involve others, done with others or against others, affect others.

My Sister's Keeper

This film demonstrates how we must be our "sister's keeper", to be kind to our siblings. They are the ones who protect us and are our first friends so it is our familial duty to treat them with respect. By having a positive relationship with our siblings, this benefits the greater good of the family unit.

My Ethical Rule

"I will use my communication skills to be an effective contributor to society. Anywhere I go I will make it my mission to learn the language and the "slangs" associated with it. I will shape my goals to have a positive impact on the people around me. I will work hard to maintain my relationships with my friends, family, and others throughout the rest of my days."

Chapter 3:

The 6 Aspects

Social Determinism

Human behaviour is determined by others’ influence upon you, not your physical state. You are the product of what others have done to you, therefore you are not free. Your behaviour is explained by social factors, not by your decisions. Your past experiences determine who you are.

The Life and Death Instinct, Freud’s theory of instinct. He saw two determining instincts: Life or love Instinct (Eros), the desire for life and love for others, and the Death Instinct (Thanatos), human aggressive-destructive tendencies.

Free Will, the capacity to choose a course of action from various alternatives, to act freely without being forced, implies a sense of moral responsibility to guide one’s actions. St. Augustine was the first great theologian to write extensively about free will

Water (2005)

My Ethical Rule

"A collaborative contributor who finds meaning, dignity and vocation in work" CGE

This moving Hindu movie demonstrates how one's life does not need to be ruled by social or religious reasoning. In this film the character Kalyani defies the caste system that has been religiously driven for centuries in India. She goes against what she is told to be to create her own destiny. She is driven by her love instinct to pursue greater things in life than inside the four walls of the widow home she lived in.

I will always try to make decisions based on whether it will benefit or hurt the greater good of the community I am in. I will find my happiness and then seek to help others find theirs.

This Catholic Graduate Expectation is a reflection of this philosopher's theory because it demonstrates how we as individuals must work with the purpose of helping those around us, to find meaning in our lives through our work. This helps contribute to the greater good.

Happiness

Aristotle believed that humans fulfill their function in society when working together in a community. Someone is happy “if and only if, over some considerable period of time, [that person] frequently performs with some success the most perfect of typically human tasks”.

Human Freedom and Determinism

My Ethical Mind Map

Religious Determinism

Chapter 1: Why Be Ethical?

The Philosopher Aristotle

The belief that God has predetermined the course of the world and its history, and the actions of each individual also known as Predestination, that God has chosen from the beginning who will attain salvation and who will not – a person can do nothing to change “the election of God” – a belief of the Puritan Tradition.

Chapter 2:

You Are What You Do

Teleology

Hector And The Search For Happiness

The Supreme Good means we have a "raison d'être", all good works have an ending to them. He states that “to act ethically, therefore, is to engage our capacity to reason as we develop good character”.

By: Kayla Prebinski

Hector's story truly reflects Aristotle's theory of Happiness. He travels the world to learn what makes other people happy in order to help his clients (community) find their happiness, as well as aid his own "pursuit of happiness".

My Ethical Rule

I will always choose my own path. If I do not agree with what others in society or within my own religion are doing then I am free to take my life into my own hands and "take the road less traveled on" (The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost).

Human Excellence

Virtues are the habits developed by people who seek to become who they are intended to be, these habits represent the best of what it means to be human. To act virtuously is to do things well, to act successfully as a human being.

"A caring family member" CGE

Naturalism

Determinism goes against the idea of free will, however the concept of free will allows people to become kind and caring beings in society. Free will allows people to be moral even when they may not have been raised that way. This is demonstrated in this Catholic Graduate Expectation, that we can be a good family member and it is not up to society to tell us if we can or not.

Also known as “Genetic Determinism”.

Everything is part of one grand chain of being connected by cause and effect that can be scientifically explained. Humans are compelled (forced) to behave a certain way by their genetic disposition (DNA). You are not an intending self but a genetically pre-programmed organism. Genes determine not only physical but behavioural qualities. There is a genetic basis for all human behaviour

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