Lesson Plan 3

by | Nov 26, 2018

Lesson Plan 9

VIDEO: Watch SIA 101.3: Declaration of Independence – Part III (Video time: 46 minutes)

REQUIRED READINGS: None

TERMS, PEOPLE, & PLACES TO IDENTIFY
Where there is a time mark, the answer is provided at the time indicated in the relevant podcast or video. Where there is no time mark indicated, the student should look up in a book or perform an Internet search for the term, person, or place.

  1. Intelligible
  2. Chaos
  3. Cosmos
  4. Etymology
  5. Pious
  6. Non-sectarian
  7. Atheist
  8. Communism
  9. Review your research on Aristotle
  10. What happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989?

STUDY QUESTIONS

  1. What is the major premise of the Declaration of Independence? (1:20 – 2:41)
  2. The revolutionaries (drafters and ratifiers) of the Declaration of Independence believed individuals ought to be what? (1:20 – 1:48)
  3. Individuals ought to be Independent of what? (1:20 – 1:48)
  4. According to the Declaration of Independence, what did the revolutionaries want? (2:10 – 2:23)
  5. The revolutionaries believed they were entitled to this based on what peculiar standard? (2:24 – 2:41)
  6. What is the Greek word for nature? (3:40)
  7. What modern word comes from the Greek word for nature? (3:40)
  8. What does a physicist study? (3:50)
  9. What is nature? (4:33 – 7:25)
  10. Do human beings have a nature? (7:35 – 8:15)
  11. Is nature intelligible? (8:48 – 11:50)
  12. Can you think of a way that nature is intelligible? (Dr. Krannawitter gives some examples – 11:51)
  13. The Declaration of Independence askes you, the reader, the citizen, to consider what two important concepts? (16:17 – 17:13)
  14. Did the founder believe moral laws of nature exist? (17:50)
  15. The Declaration of Independence provides an unusual answer to the question, “What is the cause of nature and nature’s laws?” What is it? (19:00)
  16. In the Declaration of Independence what does the phrase nature’s God mean? What does it not mean? (19:40)
  17. What did the founders mean when using the phrase nature’s God? (20:54)
  18. How did Aristotle prove the existence of God? (21:50)
  19. What was Aristotle’s big, grand question relating to the idea of God? (23:28 – 24:23)
  20. What was his conclusion? (24:20 – 25:15)
  21. Is the idea of a prime mover compatible with a religious view of God? (26:12 – 26:59)
  22. What is the simple definition of nature’s God? (27:00)
  23. Why is this concept important to the founding? (28:20)
  24. What are the three important premises of the Declaration of Independence. (30:40 – 35:44)
  25. For whose opinions do the revolutionaries have a decent respect? (35:45)
  26. Who is the audience for the Declaration of Independence? (35:45 – 37:30)
  27. Freedom is inseparable from what? Why? (38:59 – 39:05)
  28. What idea is a mortal threat to a government that believes it has the rightful authority to rule over individuals like subjects without their consent? (41:29 – 42:12)
  29. Can a person use reason to determine what makes a government legitimate or illegitimate? (42:20 – 44:25)
  30. What ideas make the Declaration of Independence radical? (44:26 – 45:07)