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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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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.

*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"

 

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10-13 Asian Ideals of Compassion

   

Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet LEADER: MONKEY;

 REQUIRED READINGS:

• 819-823           Compassion in World History

• 824                       Jain Guidelines

• 825-828             Jainism and Environmental Ethics       

• 829-833                 Ahimsa

• 834                        Gandhi

• 835-837                Jain Ahimsa in Practice

• 838-842             Mahavira’s Environmental Ethics

• 843-845            Learning from Eastern  Thought      
  

 

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REVIEW DASS +

• Thich Nhat Hanh [VIETNAM,GLOBAL CULTURE FLAG]

• EXTRA CREDIT THIS AFTERNOON 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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