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10-23 Cruelty vs. Compassion; Peer Pressure, Authority, and Sadism   [no discussion leader]

MEET AT THE BLANTON MUSEUM :

  Start walking now: Just past Jester at Martin Luther King Blvd. and Speedway (aka Congress).

Check in with me: I will just inside the entrance waiting for y'all.

 

BRING A QUARTER, A PENCIL (NOT PEN) AND PAPER TO TAKE NOTES OR SMALL COMPUTER, and a CAMERA TO TAKE PICTURES (ON SECOND FLOOR ONLY )

TODAY'S GOALS:

[1] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOALS

Our goals are to help students meet college academic standards and to help them get and keep jobs. To that end, students need to learn[1C] how to read and follow directions

[2E] WRITING. GOAL  OF THE OLD AS WELL AS THE NEW CURICULUM: “Every graduate of the University is expected to be able to express himself or herself clearly and correctly in writing” (U. T. “Basic Education Requirements”) [2E5] To practice the new writing as the product of conscious, deliberate collaboration as well as isolation, drawing on the help and advice of your fellow students as well as your instructor.

[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.

[2G] INDEPENDENT INQUIRY GOALS [2I1] “to know thyself.”[2I2] to think for your self, make your own ethical decisions, be able to resist peer pressure

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TODAY'S TOPICS:Sadism, Peer Pressure vs. Emotive Ethics;

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: QUIZ, TOUR, BLOG DISCUSSION (NO STUDENT LEADER)

REQUIRED READING:

 

http://youtu.be/fKT-LcFrA78

The Zimabardo experiment

 

http://youtu.be/4Q7oH4WH8wU

The Experiment movie trailer

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Crush Videos

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Schadenfreude

 

http://youtu.be/4XmZIcmRKkc

 

Starving a Dog to Death as "Art":

 

Guardian article

 

REQUIRED COURSE ANTHOLOGY PAGES

701-707   Hogarth, Four Stages of Cruelty

708-712   The Animal Cruelty Syndrome

713       Crush Videos Protected

714-716      "The New Sadism"

717-721     Sadism in Yale and Stanford Experiments

722-756         Zimbardo et al, "Stanford Prison Experiment"

757                 Derrida

758-775          Bump, "Alice as Sadist?"

REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: your self and the animal kingdom, your experiences of the relationship between animals and us, your relationship to the term "Earthling"

LOOKING AHEAD: P2 if satisfactory bio, photos, and video are sent to instructor by Oct. 23= 26 pts.; Oct. 25 =21 PTS. ; Oct. 30= 15 PTS;; Nov. 1 = 11 PTS; Nov. 6 = 5 PTS.

Oct. 25  Research Animals 1700-1900;Oct. 30 Research Animals 2, 1900- now, meet at ARC?Nov. 1 Role playing ethical decisions: animal testing, NDL

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