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updated: 9/30/12

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: Compassion and Emotional Literacy

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Feedback, Meditation, Quiz,  Discussion led by ???????????????

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REQUIRED READING:

 

Compassion and Autobiograhical Writing in Asia: Children Full of Life OR

Learning How to Feel, a movie about this class

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530 Know Thyself

531-537  Goleman, Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

538-540 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought

541-542 “The Man Without Feelings”

543-544 “The Roots of Empathy”

545 Molesters and Sociopaths

546 David Lee Powell, 4.0 U.T. student

547 “I Am a Rock”; “Comfortably Numb”

548-550 Definition of Passion + Churchill on Emotion

551  Definition of Sentimentality

552-553 Definition of Compassion

554 Definition of Empathy

555-556 Definition of Sympathy

557 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination

558-563 Covey on Passion, Compassion, Pathos in Business

564-568 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents

569 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary

 

 

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REVIEW:your own emotional intelligence, your own emotional literacy

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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