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10-4 Emotive Ethics
TODAY'S GOALS:
Core Curriculum Goal is “To better prepare students for a changing world by making sure they graduate with the flexible skills they need”
"This course carries the Ethics and Leadership flag. Ethics and Leadership courses are designed to equip you with skills that are necessary for making ethical decisions in your adult and professional lives. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments involving ethical issues and the process of applying ethical reasoning to real-life situations."
The relevant description of this particular course is:
Two of our basic ethics questions are [1] What would I have done about the Holocaust if I had been in Germany and known what was going on at the time? [2] What would I have done about slavery if I had been in east Texas and known what was going on at the time? To make these questions come alive for us, we will “widen the circle of compassion,” as Einstein put it, to include not only all kinds of people but other species as well. As we explore the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies, we will focus on the analogies between racism, sexism and speciesism, and those between the Holocaust and factory farming.These comparisons, made by Coetzee, Derrida, I. B. Singer, Monson ( Earthlings), etc., will challenge us to become more mindful of ethical decisions we make daily about food, clothing, and entertainment, as well as the ethical decisions involved in nonmedical animal research on this campus.
The kind of ethics instruction adopted in this particular course is based on E.Q. as well as I.Q.
Hence we discuss not only philosophical ethics (as in 'animal rights') but also the ethic of care (the virtue of compassion), our topic for today. So our specific goal for today is:
To understand emotional intelligence, its relevance to ethics, and its role in possibly changing your life.
TODAY'S TOPICS: The relation between emotional intelligence and ethics.
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Ram Dass guided imagery; Quiz; Blog discussion led by Dolphin
REQUIRED READING: COURSE ANTHOLOGY
572-3 The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics, ed. Donovan and Adams, Table of Contents
574-584 Introduction
584-587 Adams, "The War on Compassion"
588- 599 Donovan, "Attention to Suffering"
600-614 Adams, "Caring About Suffering"
615-626 Luke, Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals
REVIEW:
Compassion and Autobiograhical Writing in Asia: Children Full of Life
Learning How to Feel, a movie about this class
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
REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: both sides of your brain
LOOKING AHEAD:
Midnight tonight: ALL CRITIQUES DUE: +82 OR -100?
10-6 PowWow Extra Credit Event Saturday, Sacred Springs Powwow 921 Aquarena Springs Drive, San Marcos TX, TX (MAP) Mucho Extra Credit, especially if you take passengers in your vehicle.
Contact: Maria Rocha Phone: 512-393-3310 mail: ICIinfo@indigenouscultures.org URL: www.IndigenousCultures.org
10-6 PowWow Extra Credit Event Saturday, Sacred Springs Powwow 921 Aquarena Springs Drive, San Marcos TX, TX (MAP) Contact: Maria Rocha Phone: 512-393-3310 mail: ICIinfo@indigenouscultures.org URL: www.IndigenousCultures.org
MUCHO EXTRA CREDIT, ESPECIALLY FOR A DRIVER WHO TAKES PASSENGERS
15 points for driving + 5 for each passenger
15 points for attendance at one event
7 points for attendance at additional events
you will be awarded Class Participation Extra Credit (which has no limit) if you attend the events in a group of two or more students -- otherwise it will be individual extra credit (limit of 100 per semester)
Attendance points depend on how many events you attend on this schedule* of events from 10 AM to 5 PM. (Only one Grand Entry may be counted). You must prove attendance at each event, preferably by photos uploaded to our Facebook site. *the schedule includes driving directions
Oct. 9 P1 folder due, meet at TMM, NDL:
[1] YOUR FINAL COPY. FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method (See Faigley, but no bibliogaphy),with at least one QUOTATION FROM AT LEAST ONE ACTUAL, PRINTED BOOK NOT FOUND IN ANY WAY ON THE INTERNET, nor on our list of required books. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes) AND THE U.R.L. OF THE BLOG VERSION. THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE.
ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE
[2] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO BLACKBOARD;
[3] COPIES OF ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE put into a one document.
[4] A SECOND COPY OF YOUR FINAL P1 NOW WITH HIGHLIGHTED TO SHOW ALL CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES. EACH RESPONSE HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO WHICH REVIEWER AND OF COURSE A CODE TO SHOW WHICH COLORS = WHICH REVIEWER
Detailed criteria for your print version here (to be turned into the instructor).
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