Week Seven March 4th to March 8th

Rights and Responsibilities

Rights and Responsibilities

"The Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Therefore, every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency. Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities--to one another, to our families, and to the larger society."

Source:  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Washington, D.C.

• USCCB Resources

Key Terms: common good,  free trade v. fair trade, globalization (as well as economic globalization), private property (origins and limits), solidarity                                  

  

This week, in conjunction with our Catholic Relief Service (CRS) - campaign Operation Rice bowl (pages 171 ff), we will explore Chapter 8 of our text, Right and Responsibilities in a Globalized Context (pages 161-179).

It will be important to bring your binder especially your text to class.

In the the left margin, you will find link to key documents and terms for this chapter. Also I will provide some video links in an effort to "unpack" some of the economic realities of what this principle challenges.

You will also have time to move into your praxis groups and discuss you topic as well as begin researching your issue.

Pacem in Terris at a glance( Historical context)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiaNC0bzxik

Example of Rights and Responsibilities in a (National) Globalized Context 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juliana-versus-united-states-the-climate-change-lawsuit-that-could-stop-the-u-s-government-from-supporting-fossil-fuels-60-minutes/

This week we will also during an historical/philosophical overview of "rights," in particular private property. We will look at two political philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on the State of Nature & Social Contract Theory.

Here are two videos that express Locke's ideas and why they are important for us.

Assignments for the week

1. Read & outline (highlight) Chapter 8

2. Read Part I (Order Between Men) of Pacem in Terris

See:http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem.html

3. Copy terms in notebook (see "Key Terms" above) and study them.

4. Read the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights See:

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

In your journal, reflect and write a reaction after reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What guarantee of "rights" surprised you? AS a nation and/or world , are we living up to this declaration?

5. As referenced on Page 171 ff, Go onto Catholic Confront Global Poverty and read homepage. Click on "Issues" and read "Climate Change."

See:https://www.confrontglobalpoverty.org/

6. Read, reflect and Pray with Operation rice bowl