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EMOTIVE ETHICS
the oldest, most common approach to ethics, sometimes called
"Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself":
In feeling terms:
The result:
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INSPIRATIONS
A
human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a
part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the
rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle ofcompassionto
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but
the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the
liberation and a foundation for inner security.
Albert
Einstein (1879
- 1955) Mathematical
Circles
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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech
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Love
alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill
them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in
themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability tolovedeveloping
until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[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 include [ [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: St. Augustine's essence of ethics:
"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL." But what kind of "love"?how does it relate to nonbinary emotion, "empathy"; "sympathy"; "compassion"? the "sympathetic imagination"? the Brahmaviharas? caritas? biophilia? īśvará (atman)? etc. Can this kind of love defeat our fears? If not, what is the prognosis forhomo sapiens? see "Homo Empathicus"
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:;
GUIDED IMAGERY, BEST AND WORST ,QUIZ and then Blog DISCUSSION.
235-237 Harris on the brahmaviharas 238 Judeo-Christian love and caritas; love vs. fear 239 Native American love vs. fear story 240 The term biophilia 241-281 Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization:
241-5 Intro.; 246-8 Adam Smith revised; 248-52 The new psychology of empathy + global empathic consciousness; 253-4 Mirror neurons and resonance circuitry; 255 Darwin; 256 Deep play; 257 Empathic roots of language; 258 animal models; 264 India, Jainism, Buddhism; 266 reason and emotion, Schopenhauer, Kant; 271 animal welfare; 272 group therapy and self-help groups, Moreno;275 fellow species, biophilia, 278 global empathy
282-288 Dolby, Rethinking Multicultural Education: the New Empathy and Social Justice
DEFINITIONS OF RELATED TERMS 298-300 Definition of Passion 301-302 Definition of Compassion 303-305 Definitions of Humane, Human, 306-307 Definition of Animal 308 Definition of Empathy [SEE ALSO "Enron vs. Empathy"; "Roots of Empathy"; "Empathy vs. Video Games:; Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization; Dolby 310-311 Definition of Sympathy 311 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination
OVERVIEWS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS 312-316 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents 317 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary
318-19 The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams,
REVIEW: EMOTIVE BUSINESS ETHICS 160-161 Covey bio162-169 Covey, Principled Leadership: Service, Law of Love, Seek first to Understand Focusing on that which is greater than the ego Conscience, Character, …..Left Brain/Right Brain
170-181 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: The Whole-‐Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence, Compassion and Conscience Ethos, Pathos, Logos Character
TONIGHT 2015 Liz Carpenter Lecture LBJ Library
7:00pm - 8:30pm in Lady Bird Auditorium
No tickets or rsvp required.
Robert Reich," The Future of Inequality" Professor Reich is one of the world's leading thinkers about work and the economy. Now Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, he has served under three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. He also served on President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. In 2008. His new book coming out in late September, is "Saving Capitalism - For the Many, Not the Few".
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