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10-16 Philosophy and Animals

BRING COETZEE BOOK TO CLASS OR -5

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TODAY'S GOALS:

 Understand the role of philosophy in ethics generally and advancing animal rights specifically; become aware of the advantages and disadvantages of analogies such as that between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses. [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 are

[2A2a] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust.

[2A2b] To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by racism, especially slavery.

[2A2c] To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals.

[2A2d]  To become aware of real-life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving 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: The value and validity of analogies such as those between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses in this novel and elsewhere.

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Feedback, Meditation, QUIZ and then blog DISCUSSION

TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:  Elizabeth Costello. First half of the novel, but primarily  "The Philosophers and the Animals" (pp. 59-90 of the Penguin edition) AND

 

668-669 Coetzee, intro

670-671 Lives of Animals

672-673 Garber on analogy

674-677 Singer’s fiction

678-685 Doniger on compassion, vegetarianism,

685-692 Smuts on nonhuman persons

692-693 Contributors 

 

 

 

Review Readings:

  • 189-194 Monson, Earthlings introduction
  • 195-228 Monson, Earthlings screenplay
  • 229-252  SZtybel on analogy
  • 254-255  Montaigne
  • 261-269 Quotations
  • Definitions of terms
  • REVIEW YOU: Your ethics as they relate to the Holocaust, factory farming, slaughterhouses, etc.

RECOMMENDED READING: Eternal Treblinka, the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer,  and many others on this subject

REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: your own ethics; what you think you would have done if you lived near a concentration camp in Nazi Germany; what if anything you feel you need to do about  factory farming, slaughterhouses, etc.

LOOKING AHEAD:Coetzee on Poetry and Animals:

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