[2A2] 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 are

[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.

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TODAY'S TOPICS: Demonstrating the Sympathetic Imagination

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: P2 instructions, Quiz, Statue Walk continued: Speech Schedule: Penguin: Washington Statue; Owl: Wilson Statue.; CESAR CHAVEZ: Snow Leopard; BARBARA JORDAN: White Tiger; MLK: Arctic Wolf; Pease: Grizzly Bear;  Simkins: White Tiger; discussion of Cats blogs

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TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

Rilke,“Panther”...………………………………………………….817-­‐818
Hughes Intro………………………………………………………819-­‐820
“Jaguar I” …………………………………………………………821
Ancient Worship of Cats
"In Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome," Dorothy Stuart...…………..822-­‐823
"The Cat in Ancient Egypt"………………………………………....824-­‐829
"What Happens to Cats," Herodotus……………………………….830-­‐831
Siamese Temple Cats………………………………………………832
Cat Eye folklore……………………………………………………833
Cat Companions in Ancient Art: TiYi, Egypt. 1500 B.C……………..834
Pen: Egypt,1200 B.C………………………………………………835
Southern Italy, 4th c.B.C…………………………………………...836
Cat Companions throughout history
Mahomed + Belgian Cat's Prayer" ………………………………....837
"Jeffry, Christopher Smart,18th c…………………………………...838-­‐839
"Never Again," Doris Lessing………………………………………840
"Killing Willie," Mary Hemingway…………………………………..841
Cat Teachers
Zen Masters, Ekhart Tolle………………………………………….842
"Miao," Dilys Laing…………………………………………………843

Speaking Cats
"Kitten's Recollections," A.N. Wilson……………………………….844
"From the Laws of Cats," Karel Capek…………………………….845
“Hiddigeigei,"  J. V. Von Scheffel……………………………………846
“Simon," Frederick Pollock…………………………………………847
"Cat of the House," Ford Madox Ford……………………………...848
“The Ballad of Tough Tom," Paul Gallico……………………………849
“Diary of a Cat," Edwina S. Babcock………………………………850-853
Cat Epitaphs
“Duchesse du Maine” Sir Edmind Gosse…………………………....854
“Epitaphium Felis” Jorton……………………………………………855

REVIEW READINGS:

• COURSE ANTHOLOGY PAGES
• EMOTIVE ETHICS
• “Compassion”……………………………………………………………….560-561
  “Empathy”…………………………………………………….………………562
  “Sympathy”……………………………………………………..……………563-564
  Sympathetic Imagination …………………………………………………565
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  PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
• Singer, Companion to Ethics, Table of Contents……………………..566-570
  The Ethics of Sympathy …………………………………………..………571

• PRACTICAL ETHICS
• 778-782 Amy Hempel, “At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom”

• SHELTER DOGS
  • 783 Amy Hempel, “In the Animal Shelter”
  • 784-5 “Calvin’s Story”
  • 786 “Hector”
  • 787 “Cracked”
• ELEGIES
  • 788  “Zach”
  • 789 “From One Old Dog”
  • 790 “Still Thawing”
  • 791 “Meanwhile”
  • 792 “Jake”
  • 793-4 “A Bouquet”
  • 795 “For Pine Goose”
• FROM THE DOG’S POINT OF VIEW
  • 796 Rick Bass, Intro.
  • 797-807 Rick Bass’s “The Odyssey,”
  • 808 “Max,”
  • 809 “Envoy”; “Devotion”
  • 810 “Hunting Accident”
  • 810-811 “Gus Speaks”
  • 812 “Coach”
  • 813 “Samantha”
  • 814 “When I Died On My Birthday”;
  • 815 “Buster’s Visitation”
  • 816 “Lola’s Lament”

REVIEW TOPICS: The relation between compassion and the sympathetic imagination, as well as betwen emotional intelligence, compassion, animal humanities, and ethics.

REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: emotional intelligence, compassion, and the sympathetic imagination

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LOOKING AHEAD: Extending your sympathetic imagination to your shelter animal (P2) as well as your power animal.