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TODAY'S GOALS:
[2A2] ETHICS: The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: "have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems." Our ethics goals include [2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals. [2A2e] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience. [2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination. [
TODAY'S TOPICS: Ethical Challenges. What did you learn from it? What did you learn from the various activities, especially those numbered 1-5, 11, 14, 20 (useful beginning of project 4). What did you agree with or disagree with?
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:; MEDITATION,QUIZ and then Blog DISCUSSION.
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:
ALL OF Ethical Challenges +
REVIEW
67 U. T. Core Values: UT Honor Code: "Each member of the University is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect towards peers and community."
LOOKING AHEAD:
205-210 Covey, Principled Leadership: Service Orientation, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand ; Focusing on that which is greater than the ego: Conscience, Character, …..
213-231 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: The Whole-Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence; Compassion and Conscience ;Ethos, Pathos, Logos;Character 245-6 The New Curriculum (Ethics flag)
323-6 MBA Ethics Oath
328 Sisodia, Ethical Capitalism
329 Cox, Ethics in Business Education
566-570 Companion to Ethics
REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: these texts and your capacity for critical reading and critial thinking
LOOKING AHEAD: Earthlings
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