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CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC - racism -- to previous topic: speciesism: return to Earthlings
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https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/images/EARTHLINGS-HD.mp4
RACISM AND SPECIESISM: AN ANLOGY IS NOT AN EQUATION
HOMO SAPIENS AND OTHER SPECIES: UNIQUE AND THE SAME
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INTEGRATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN AND THE RIGHT, YOUR ANIMAL AND YOUR "HUMAN" SIDE........
CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC - racism -- to previous topic: speciesism: return to Earthlings
https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/images/EARTHLINGS-HD.mp4
RACISM AND SPECIESISM: AN ANLOGY IS NOT AN EQUATION
HOMO SAPIENS AND OTHER SPECIES: UNIQUE AND THE SAME
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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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LOOKING AHEAD:
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extra office hours by email appointment (bump@utexas.edu) Friday afternoon (11-11} and Monday afternoon (11-14); but for help with the writing categories first make an appointment with the University Writing Center
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11-15 
Costello 2: POETRY Best and Worst" Quiz in class. LEADER: SWIFT
1076-1088 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Poetry
1118-1121 Peter Singer commentary
1122-1128 Wendy Doniger commentary
1129-1136 Barbara Smuts commentary
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11-17 Coetzee 3 POETRY Best and Worst" Quiz in class. LEADER: BLACK PANTHER
1137-1138 Rilke, “Panther” GERMANY
1139-1140 Hughes Intro
1141 “Jaguar” BRITAIN
1142 “Jaguar II” BRITAIN
1143 Rilke, “Black Cat” GERMANY
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11-22 P2 due online: MEET AT LBJ library? or see movie about climate crisis? [BOTH = EXTRA CREDIT BLOG OPPORTUNITIES]
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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.
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"
MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY:
"A Zen-inspired blend of meditation, breathing exercises and focus techniques are in vogue in corporate America—championed by blue-chip employers like Google Inc. and General Mills Inc. as a simple but potent mind-sharpening tool." Gershman, Jacob. "
"Lawyers Go Zen, With Few Objections." WSJ. June 18, 2015.
Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A
Lovingkindness is a form of meditation designed to cultivate feelings of warmth and kindness to all people, including oneself, the researchers said. Practicing the technique may activate a soothing-caring regulation system that is probably deficient in chronic self-critics, they suggest [that] this practice may...... help in breaking down perfectionist tendencies. I know that at least for me, if I choose to allow myself forgiveness, encouragement, and grace, then I will be happier and more peaceful. The harshest of "self-critics" can use this meditation to learn how to better handle their self-judging nature. When we are less demanding of ourselves, we can in turn, be less demanding of others.
Lukits, Ann. "After Meditation, Self-Critical People Ease Up." WSJ. August 13, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A.
Dass
Guided Imagery (focused on self, esp. as a child?)
The Mystery
Inner Presence
Ocean Waves
Understand the role of philosophy in ethics
generally and advancing animal rights specifically; become aware
of the advantages and disadvantages of analogies such as that
between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses.
REQUIRED READINGS:
1060-1075 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Philosophy
1091-1114 Holocaust analogy analysis.
1089-1090 Marjorie Garber commentary
1115-1117 Holocaust comparison quotations
RELATED TOPIC introduced in Earthlings: RACISM
CALISTHENICS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION:
EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER HUMANS
[CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICA]
REVIEW
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comparison of speciesism and racism in Earthlings
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*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"
MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY:
"A Zen-inspired blend of meditation, breathing exercises and focus techniques are in vogue in corporate America—championed by blue-chip employers like Google Inc. and General Mills Inc. as a simple but potent mind-sharpening tool." Gershman, Jacob. "
"Lawyers Go Zen, With Few Objections." WSJ. June 18, 2015.
Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A
Lovingkindness is a form of meditation designed to cultivate feelings of warmth and kindness to all people, including oneself, the researchers said. Practicing the technique may activate a soothing-caring regulation system that is probably deficient in chronic self-critics, they suggest [that] this practice may...... help in breaking down perfectionist tendencies. I know that at least for me, if I choose to allow myself forgiveness, encouragement, and grace, then I will be happier and more peaceful. The harshest of "self-critics" can use this meditation to learn how to better handle their self-judging nature. When we are less demanding of ourselves, we can in turn, be less demanding of others.
Lukits, Ann. "After Meditation, Self-Critical People Ease Up." WSJ. August 13, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A.
Dass Guided Imagery (focused on self, esp. as a child?)
The Mystery
Inner Presence
Ocean Waves
Understand the role of philosophy in ethics generally and advancing animal rights specifically; become aware of the advantages and disadvantages of analogies such as that between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses.
REQUIRED READINGS:
1060-1075 Coetzee, The Lives of Animals: Philosophy
1091-1114 Holocaust analogy analysis.
1089-1090 Marjorie Garber commentary
1115-1117 Holocaust comparison quotations
RELATED TOPIC introduced in Earthlings: RACISM
CALISTHENICS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION:
EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHER HUMANS
[CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICA]
REVIEW
comparison of speciesism and racism in Earthlings
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