Ethics and Politics can be sometimes linked and other cannot. But, what they surely share is the fact that we as humans in isolation as well as part of a community want life to be based on freedom, justice and help.
These requirements can be summed up in what we call: Human Rights.
As teachers, we should keep on insisting with these rights, trying to teach our students to be aware of them and show them that they are not words written in a document but powerful actions that CAN be achieved!
Teachers play an important role in this process that is not only filled in by showing them what can be done but by being a part of it!
Because we are helping are future politician, doctors, lawyers, etc to grow up, we should at least share with them what we want for our society; those minimum requirements that each individual wants: to have the possibility to choose, to be treated with justice and dignity and to promote mutual help between neighbours.
There are some problems (hunger, poverty, and so on) that cannot be easily resolved. But, we humans can make our place to live a little bit better:
Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me
Heal the World by Michael Jackson (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaeljackson/healtheworld.html)
Try to make our world inhabitable and beautiful: MAKE A BETTER PLACE FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
Chapter 9, Etica para Amador - Savater
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Hi Romina!
These are ideas I share with you:
* "Teachers must work hard to promote human rights"
* "Teachers' behaviour is the best way to share what teachers actually believe in"
* "Tomorrow citizens are formed in today's classrooms" (and also today citizens if we're teaching adults!)
And here are some I strongly disagree with:
* "Ethics and Politics can be sometimes linked and other cannot".
* "(All) humans... want life to be based on freedom, justice and help."
Can you guess why?
;-)
Fondly,
Gladys
Difficult question Gladys!
Trying to get into your mind, I think that you probably think that ethics and politics are always linked , am I right? This could be related to what we talked in class, the fact that we are part of a political community as well as an ethical community and they are always connected (community of teachers, community of ENGLISH teachers, argentinian community and so on)
Help me in this one!!!
As regards what humans want, I think I may have generalized. If course that not all humans what freedom, justice and help but most of the people that I am surrounded by I think they do.
Wouldn´t it be nice if everyone wanted that, though?
Waiting for your reply,
Romi
Nice indeed, Romi, but also utopian, IMHO! What's more, would all those people always understand the same by these wonderful terms (justice, freedom. you name it!).
As regards the link between ethics and politics, you now know I think ethics is to the individual as politics to any society (with as little as two members!). Whether we choose to think about it or not, they'll always be among us! So we'd better think and make choices... or so I think!
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