Title: ReviewExtend Wholeness
1Review/Extend Wholeness
- Short-term pleasure versus long-term happiness
(159) - The short-term pleasure takes on an excessive
importance in our life and HOOKS us, throwing
off that dynamic and harmonious balance of ALL
parts of the self (159). - Discuss hooks with a partner
- What hooks society today?
- What hooks teens today?
- Text lists the following alcohol, drugs, casual
sex, gambling, money, and addiction in general
2Justice Loves MinimumGICM Ch 6 (108-133)
- The poor do not exist as an act of destiny,
their existence is not politically neutral or
ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of
the system in which we live and for which we are
responsible The poverty of the poor is a demand
for the construction of a new social order. - Gustavo Gutierrez
3Justice striving to ensure the well-being of
others and ourselves
- What does this clip have to do with justice?
4Justice is not the criminal justice system
5Lets take a look at the text
- Read Valuable in Gods Eyes and A Matter of
Rights and Obligations (112)
All of Gods creation is good and therefore has
worth. The demands of justice spring primarily
from this insight (112). Rights are those
things that we must have if we are to actually be
what God created us to be (112)
6(114) Survival and Thrival Rights
Meeting survival needs is not adequate for
meeting ones full potential as a person. In
addition to survival, justice is concerned with
thrival
- Certain basic needs must be met if a person is to
survive. Minimal survival needs include food,
water, shelter, a means of livelihood, physical
safety, healthcare
- To thrive is to grow, to become enriched, to live
a full life. Education and literacy are among
the requirements for human thrival, along with
respect, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom of
conscience, religious livery, and decision
making.
7Relationships take place at several levels,
and so justice has several dimensions (114).
- Individual Justice is concerned with obligations
between individuals, one-to-one relationships.
(116-118) - Social Justice is about obligations that
individuals and subgroups within society have
toward their community or the society as a whole.
(119-124) - Distributive Justice deals with the obligations
that the society has toward all its members, and
the role of governments, corporations,
communities, and individuals in the just
distribution of societys resources. (125-129) - Ecological Justice is concerned with the
obligations that human beings have to all the
rest of creation. (114)
8Group Work
- Read the resource provided about some aspect of
the work done by the SNDs - Identify the primary type of justice involved in
this issue and explain why - ( You can name another type of justice this could
be an example of and state why) - Identify one principle of Catholic Social
Teaching that is related - Present the issue and your groups findings to
the class
9Would you say your PRIMARY TYPE OF JUSTICE is
- Individual Justice is concerned with obligations
between individuals, in one-to-one relationships.
- Social Justice is about obligations that
individuals and subgroups within society have
toward their community or the society as a whole. - Social Justice is about obligations that
subgroups within society have toward their
community or the society as a whole. - Distributive Justice deals with the obligations
that the society has toward all its members, and
the role of governments, corporations,
communities, and individuals in the just
distribution of societys resources. - Ecological Justice is concerned with the
obligations that human beings have to all the
rest of creation.
10On Your Bookmark
- On the back write about one of the justice issues
the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur are working on
that you found interesting.
11Review Virtues
- Cards with definition side down and virtue name
up. - Ms G reads definition.
- One person grabs card and stands.
- Each group gets a point for correct selection.
- Group with most points at the end wins.