UNCC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Katherine Paterson, Rationality
28 May 2018
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Department
Course
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Katherine Paterson
UNCC300 Justice & Change
Week 5
-What is being human? > the tension between being and becoming is a basic structure of
human existence and it related to the fact we live in time > in other words an individual
already exists as someone, but at the same time they are on the way to becoming
someone.
-No one is all good and no one is all bad > it may be hard to see the goodness in others
-Nelson Mandela > politician? Leader? Lawyer? Prisoner? Shepherd? Runner/Boxer?
Husband? Father? Communist? Democrat?
-Apartheid in South Africa > the majority, native Africans, treated worse than animals by
the white people minority > worldwide sporting sector expelled South Africa bc them
competing would
-See someone’s dignity being eroded you have to weigh up whether you make a change
or not to help them
-Being vs Becoming. Facts vs Possibility. Rationality vs Non-rational. Responsibility v
Powerlessness. Embodiment vs Transcendence. Autonomy vs interdependence.
Freedom vs determination.
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It always seems impossible until it's done.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than
the one you are capable of living.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk
to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
For to be free is not merely to cast o one's chains, but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination.
But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
After climbing a great hill, one only nds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela Quotes
Document Summary
No one is all good and no one is all bad > it may be hard to see the goodness in others. Apartheid in south africa > the majority, native africans, treated worse than animals by the white people minority > worldwide sporting sector expelled south africa bc them competing would. See someone"s dignity being eroded you have to weigh up whether you make a change or not to help them. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
