Key teaching points Human action, the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain Identifying pleasure, pain and appropriate action e.g. how do we know if a pleasure/pain is good or bad and how do we act accordingly? Desire, need, reason and the idea of intentional action e.g. something you will willingly Desire, need and the concept of good The concept of rights and the concept of ‘person’ e.g. individuals pursue natural rights and persons have social/civil/legal rights Person, reason and action – virtues, consequences and duties e.g. Aristotle’s concept of practical wisdom 10–11 Unit content the nature of laws the basis for rights the concept of fairness and its relation to rights the concepts of legal and moral rights moral and legal duties to others the distinction between laws and rules Assessment Task 3: Construction of argument Key teaching points Moral reasoning and moral action Natural rights versus social/civil rights The idea of fairness as a natural right that humans pursue The concept of fairness at the heart of social/civil rights The decision making process in human social relations e.g. mediation, arbitration, negotiation The distinction between a moral duty and a legal duty Practising the community of inquiry: Rights, obligations and happiness – Leavers and the Law by the WA Government Rights and obligations between persons in school as a microcosm of civil society 12–15 Unit content the concepts of work, leisure and play the value of work to individuals, families and more broadly, what counts as good work relationship between work and community life various kinds of paid and unpaid work voluntary community work Key teaching points Aristotle’s Politics [see Bk. I, Chapters 1—4 and Chapter 13 (Households make states; household management; property; virtues).] Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics [see Bk. X, Chapter 7, 1177a11–1177a18 to Bk. X, Chapter 8, 1178b33–1179a33 (Relationship between work, leisure and human happiness).] 16 Assessment Task 4: Test Semester 2 – Unit 2 – Reason and happiness Week Key teaching points 1–2 Content types of inquiry: elenchus
8–10 Content the concept of a game social roles of umpires, judges, law-makers and citizens the concept of fairness in games, and the role of umpires and other arbitrators in games the concept of fairness in a broader social context the concept of rights various sources of rights the concept of leadership various forms of leadership Key teaching points Wellbeing and conflict of interest Fair play and games Self-interest and community interest The concept of rights The difference between natural rights and legal rights Aristotle and Natural Law Theory Social Contract Theory 11–13 Content concepts of pleasure, happiness and wellbeing as examples of conceptual clarification the idea of personal autonomy the idea of authenticity Assessment Task 7: Construction of an argument Key teaching points The pursuit of happiness as a natural right Film study – The Pursuit of Happyness Different cultural concepts of happiness – US Declaration of Independence Case study – Aristotle and Eudemonia Virtue ethics 14–15 Content the ideas of pleasure, happiness, fulfilment and wellbeing different ideas of what is a good life and how to achieve it concepts of pleasure, happiness and wellbeing as examples of conceptual clarification Key teaching points The concepts of pleasure and fulfilment Pleasure and the brain Higher and lower pleasures – Mill The pleasure principle – Bentham Utilitarianism in practice – Singer 16 Assessment Task 8: Test