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3-26 EMOTIVE ETHICS; Totem pole assignment due

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On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester: “How do you see the world?” And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:

" I see it feelingly."

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Scene from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Would you pass the empathy test? The android, Max Polokov, is here called "Leon" in this scene. In the novel the interrogator's name is Dave Holden.

 

In other words, do you have Emotional Intelligence?

How does Leon compare to David Lee Powell?

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art designed to inspire compassion:

the Pieta on the altar at Notre Dame de Paris

 

relic inspiring compassion: the crown of thorns

ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris

 

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TODAY'S GOALS:

[2A2] ETHICS [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: The Ethics of Compassion

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ACTIVITIES: Feedback, Quiz, Discussion of  blogs, P2.

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REQUIRED READING FOR FEEDBACK:

LISTENING GUIDELINES Covey on listening + reading,writing, speaking………….…80‐81 Discussion………………………………………………………..82 Listening………………………………………………………….83

Have You Tried Listening?.....................................................84

EMOTIONAL LITERACY Emotion Words Checklist…………………………………………………542‐549

Children’s Feeling Words…………………………………………………550 Vocabulary of Emotion……………………………………………………551 Intensity of Feelings Chart………………………………………………  552

The word "love"

CLASS PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:

"Class discussion rules: students who talk to others while the speaker is talking and/or encourage this rude behavior with a willing ear, will have fifteen points deducted from their class participation/attendance grade for each incident.

Egregious behavior such as sleeping in class, reading materials other than ours, using your cell phone, iPod, or computer during class, acting out, disrupting class, etc. will be subject to a thirty-point penalty for each incident. Students who insult, threaten, or harass others will have fifty points deducted from their grade for each incident, and be referred to the Dean of Students."

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REQUIRED READING FOR CLASS DISCUSSION: 

Compassion and Autobiograhical Writing in Asia: Children Full of Life

524         Know Thyself

525-531  Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain

532-534  Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

535-536 “The Man Without Feelings”

537-538 “The Roots of Empathy”

539 David Lee Powell, Plan II student

540 Molesters and Sociopaths

541 “I Am a Rock”; “Comfortably Numb”

EMOTIVE ETHICS

“Compassion”………………………………………………………560-561
“Empathy”…………………………………………………….……..562
“Sympathy”……………………………………………………..……563-564

PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS

Singer, Companion to Ethics, Table of Contents ……….…...566-570
The Ethics of Sympathy……………………………………..…….571

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REVIEW: Sympathetic Imagination ……………………. 565

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RECOMMENDED READING: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: your head and your heart

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LOOKING AHEAD:Animals in World Religions P2

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“Stress Recess” Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called “Stress Recess” at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!

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