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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 of compassion to 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 Mathematical Circles
Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow,consumer-hell typesituation 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
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 to love developing
until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL" St. Augustine
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Dass
Guided Imagery
"Only connect!"E. M. Forster, Howard's End (1910), ch. 22
CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC TO PREVIOUS TOPICS: 9-1 Emotional Intelligence and the Sympathetic Imagination
to 8-30 Ethics and to 8-25 DFW
HAMMER YOUR THOUGHTS INTO UNITY'
"One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, 'Hammer* your thoughts into unity'. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]"
William Butler Yeats (Nobel Prize, 1923; cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )
"Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good."
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
TODAY'S GOALS:
[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:
Who are you? do you know? Are you dead or are you alive? are you in pieces or are you whole? have you been virtually "lobotomized" [had one part of your brain(left side?) severed from another (right side?)]? how are you feeling? right now?
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:; ,QUIZ, INTRO TO GUIDED IMAGERY, PROJECT, and then Blog DISCUSSION.
On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester: “How do you see the world?” And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:" I see it feelingly."
REQUIRED READING:
BEST AND WORST
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COURSE ANTHOLOGY:
ETHICAL CALISTHENICS: , P. 427 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination
EMOTIONAL LITERACY
270 Know Thyself
cf. Abrams p. 3, no sorrow, no joy
271-274 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain
275-277 Emotional Intelligence
278- 280 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought
281-282 “The Man Without Feelings”
283-4 “The Roots of Empathy”
[see also "Empathy" below]
285-287 Empathy vs Video Games
288 David Lee Powell, Plan II student?
289 Molesters and Sociopaths
290 “I Am a Rock”;
290 “Comfortably Numb”
291-294 “Turn It Off”.
295-297 Feedback and Emotional Intelligence
298-305 Emotion Words checklist
306 Children’s Feeling Words
307 Vocabulary of Emotions
308 Intensity of Feelings Chart
309-310 Writing Emotions
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THE BASIC EMOTIONS? LOVE VS. FEAR
311-314 Emotive Ethics
315-317 Living in the NOW free of fear
318-327 Transforming Fear
328-329 The Role of Love in Education: Buscaglia
330- 332 Brooks, Love and Learning
WORD CHOICE
333-339 The Word Love in English and Greek
340 The words “Loving-Kindness”and Metta
341- Metta and the other brahmaviharas
342-344 Harris on the brahmaviharas
345-347 A Metta meditation
348 Judeo-Christian love and caritas; love vs. fear
349 Native American love vs. fear
350 The term biophilia
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POSITIVE NON-BINARY EMOTIONS
399-400 Love +Joy
401-402 Peacefulness + “Know Thyself”
403-404 Enjoyment; Acceptance
405-407 Enthusiasm
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REVIEW:
University of Texas Ethics
"Ethics, (or morality) is the study of how people should act toward one another, other species, and natural systems" Ethical Challenges
163-170 Ethical Challenges [official UGS workbook for this flag]
171- 175 Honor Code of U.T.
see also Course Syllabus + Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
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ETHICAL PROBLEMS?
The Example of Business
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176-177 Enron + Madoff
188-121 Enron vs. Empathy
182-127 Wall Street
188-92 When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers
ANSWERS: RELIGION?
193-194 Paul’s First Letter to Timothy:
Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas:
(the root of evil is greed)?
195-197 Billy Graham et al
198-203 Pope Francis
204-210 Buddhism in the Business School?
ANSWERS: ETHICAL CAPITALISM?
211 Sisodia, Ethical Capitalism
212 Cox, Ethics in Business Education
213-218 Harvard students’ MBA Ethics Oath
219-220 A Humane Revolution
221-222 Humane Business
223-230 Cruetlty-Free Companies
231-235 Consumer voting with forks
236-239 Example: Perdue Chickens
240-247 Example: EcoDairy Farm
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ANSWERS? EMOTIVE BUSINESS ETHICS
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248-249 Covey bio
250-257 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
258-269 Covey, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: The Whole-‐Person Paradigm, incl. Spiritual Intelligence, Compassion and Conscience Ethos, Pathos, Logos Character
see also DFW :the most dangerous thing about an academic education -- least in my own case -- is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me. an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. dead, unconscious, a slave to your head
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.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people
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LOOKING AHEAD:
9-6 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic Imagination, etc.[Homo Empathicus ]
Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet Quiz in class. .
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