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Universal Understandings

Universal Understandings . To help develop level 3 KUDs. Concepts. Some concepts span across several subject areas represent significant ideas, phenomena,intellectual process, or persistent problems Are timeless

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Universal Understandings

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  1. Universal Understandings To help develop level 3 KUDs

  2. Concepts Some concepts span across several subject areas represent significant ideas, phenomena,intellectual process, or persistent problems Are timeless Can be represented though different examples, with all examples having the same attributes And universal For example, the concepts of patterns, interdependence, symmetry, system and power can be examined in a variety of subjects or even serve as concepts for a unit that integrates several subjects.

  3. Examples of Concepts Power Courage Change Responsibility Destruction Relationship Justice Fairness Freedom Adaptation Survival Ownership Individuality Perspective Ethics Commitment Violence Conflict Resolution Revolution Tradition Evil Tolerance Infinity Eternity Patterns Exploration Discovery Beauty Truth Conservation Adaptation Extinction Value Equality Loyalty Spirituality Invention System Constancy Cycles Interdependence Myth Voice Culture Identity Perspective Classification Idea Rituals Fantasy Migration Cause and Effect Persuasion Altruism Equilibrium Constancy

  4. Mortimer Adler’s List of the Most Important Concepts in Western Civilization • Angel • Animal • Aristocracy • Art • Astronomy • Beauty • Being • Cause • Chance • Change • Citizen • Constitution • Courage • Custom and convention • Definition • Democracy • Desire • Dialectic • Duty • Education • Element • Emotion • Eternity • Evolution • Experience • Family • Fate • Form • God • Good and Evil • Government • Habit • Happiness • History • Honor • hypothesis • 37. Idea • Immortality • Induction • Infinity • Judgment • Justice • Labor • Language • Law • Liberty • Life and death • Logic • Love • Man • Mathematics • Matter • Mechanics • Medicine • Memory/Imagination • Metaphysics • Mind • Monarchy • Nature • Necessity • Oligarchy • One and Many • Opinion • Opposition • Philosophy • Physics • Pleasure and Pain • Poetry • Principle • Progress • Prophecy • Prudence • Punishment • Quality • Quantity • Reasoning • Relation • Religion • Revolution • Rhetoric • Same/Other • Science • Sense • Sign/Symbol • Sin • Slavery • Soul • Space • State • Temperance • Theology • Time • Truth • Tyranny • Universe • Virtue/Vice • War & Peace • Wealth • Will • Wisdom • World

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