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How's the water?
How's the dirt? How's the worm?
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CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC - -HOW CAN I HELP? -- TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:
9-29 P1; 9-27 Shapeshifting 9-22 Group Totem Animal +
9-20 Hawk as Power Animal + 9-15 Power
Animals;
9-13 Universities,
U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II;
+ 9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism, Lord of the
Flies;
+ 9-6
PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic
Imagination,
CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC - -HOW CAN I HELP? -- TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:
9-29 P1; 9-27 Shapeshifting 9-22 Group Totem Animal +
9-20 Hawk as Power Animal + 9-15 Power Animals;
9-13 Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II;
+ 9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism, Lord of the Flies;
+ 9-6 PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic Imagination,
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LOOKING AHEAD:10-13 Asian Ideals of Compassion MONKEY;
EXTRA CREDIT 10 pts. for attendance with selfie taken there;up to 20 more pts. for blog posted in Extra Credit Discussion Board ((two images and at least two quotes.), presumably related this to our cultural diversity flag themes, esp. racism and sexism.
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Bringing It All Back Home: Austin in the Sixties (50 Years After)
Thursday, October 13th, 3:30-5:30pm, PAI 3.02
Speaker: Professor Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo. Author of the acclaimed book, The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left.
Austin was a major center of youth protest and dissident culture in the 1960s -- a radical center with a distinctive Texas identity.
Civil rights agitation, dissident religion, peace mobilization, leftist radicalism, women's liberation, and a unique underground culture: it all happened here, and most of all at UT. Soon, it will be fifty years since the world-shaking year 1968. Looking back with the benefit of a half-century's perspective, Professor Rossinow will reflect of the significance of the 1960s for today, and on what Austin's Sixties tells us about that era.
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10-18 Siddhartha KANGAROO
MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY [10-17] ;
10-20 P1b final version DUE by 10:30 AM by email attachment
10-20 + 10+25 EARTHLINGS EXPERIENTIAL COMPASSION TEST
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P2 required service learning excursion to Taylor animal shelter 11-6
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INTEGRATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN AND THE RIGHT, YOUR ANIMAL AND YOUR "HUMAN" SIDE........
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INTEGRATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN AND THE RIGHT, YOUR ANIMAL AND YOUR "HUMAN" SIDE........
SOME OF OUR GOALS
To develop the sympathetic
imagination, the basis of all ethics
[see below].
To
unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating
both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
SOME OF OUR GOALS
To develop the sympathetic
imagination, the basis of all ethics
[see below].
To
unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating
both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
[2A2a] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience
[2A2b] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination,which is essential to morality and ethics.
Trying to imagine what it was like to be someone else is a form of experiential learning, the kind that can stick with you later. All of this depends on your willingness to be an actor, to willingly suspend your disbelief long enough to play the part. That willingness also enables you to FREE yourself from the world views that you may have inherited without conscious thought or decision on your part.* Trying out the worldviews of other cultures is the humanities equivalent of a scientific experiment. When you adopt, however briefly, another Weltanshauung, and see and feel as a member of that culture would, you test out whether any part of that philosophy of life is one you want to adopt and/or, by contrast, what part of the worldivew you inherited you may consciously want to embrace as an adult.
10-11 Dass 3 MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS OR -10 Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet LEADER: WOLF
REQUIRED READINGS:
FINAL THIRD OF DASS BOOK, 149-END +
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REVIEW DASS +
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Thich Nhat Hanh [VIETNAM,GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG]
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509-521 biography and five mindfulness trainings
816 Breughel, Fall of Icarus BELGIUM
817-818
Auden, "Musee des
Beaux Arts" BRITAIN
818
Williams, "Landscape ...." AMERICA
10-11 Dass 3 MUST BRING BOOK TO CLASS OR -10 Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet LEADER: WOLF
REQUIRED READINGS:
FINAL THIRD OF DASS BOOK, 149-END +
REVIEW DASS +
Thich Nhat Hanh [VIETNAM,GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG]
509-521 biography and five mindfulness trainings
816 Breughel, Fall of Icarus BELGIUM
817-818 Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" BRITAIN
818 Williams, "Landscape ...." AMERICA
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