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How's the water?
How's the dirt? How's the worm?
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CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC -- Becoming Animal-- TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:
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 -- Becoming Animal-- TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:
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:
P1a due online 9-29 by 10:30 AM meeting all requirements. Otherwise:
-5 if by 9-30; -10 if by 10-1; -15 if by 10-2; -20 if by 10-3; -30 if by 10-4; -100 if not by then
P1 critiques due 10-7
P1b final copy due 10-20
10-4 Dass 1 Quiz in class. Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet
LEADER? KEITH COMPASSION IN ACTION: HOW CAN I HELP?
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10-6Dass 2 Quiz in class. Best and Worst" for first
half of alphabet BRIANA'S BIRTHDAY LEADER? HANNAH
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EXTRA CREDIT:Thursday, October 6, 4pm Workshop on Race, Health, and the Environment
Glickman Conference Center (CLA 1.302D) 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.).
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P1 critiques due 10-7 by midnight
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10-11Dass 3 Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet LEADER: MAANASA
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 THE GOALS OF PROJECT ONE
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 THE GOALS OF PROJECT ONE
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.
To explore some of the animal archetypes of the
collective unconscious
[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"
*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"
9-29 REBIRTH, AND TRIBE FORMATION, + NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC+ EXTRA CREDIT FOR COMING DRESSED AS YOUR ANIMAL GUIDE
WHO ARE YOU? -- said the Caterpillar (repeatedly).
WHAT ARE YOU? -- the Pigeon asks
BILL MOYERS ON HIS SECOND BIRTH AT U.T.
As a boy, Bill Moyers sacked groceries in his hometown of Marshall, Texas, but he went on to become Director of the Peace Corps, LBJ's White House press secretary and chief of staff, the publisher of Newsday, and the erudite writer-producer-interviewer for several of PBS's most popular series, including Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, and Genesis. People magazine has said that Moyers is "perhaps the most insightful broadcast journalist of our day, an astute interviewer to whom philosophers, novelists, and inarticulate workers have revealed their deepest dreams."
In 1986, The Ex-Students' Association gave Moyers its highest honor, the Distinguished Alumnus Award. And when he delivered UT's 117th commencement address in May 2000, it was the fourth trip back to his alma mater within the year, having participated in an LBJ Library symposium on the '60s, The Daily Texan centennial celebration, and having given the Liz Carpenter Lecture at Hogg Auditorium in February.
….this is the place to which I do return. Someone asked me the other day, "You were here for The Daily Texan celebration, you're here for this, you're giving the commencement in May. Why?" And I said, "Because it's the place of my second birth."
I became intellectually awakened here. And it's like the astronauts returning from space; they always head for earth. And for me to return from the atmosphere of a vagrant sojourner, which is what journalism is, you go from place to place, restless, homeless, this is the earth to which I always return. Somehow coming back here, even though it has changed drastically since your time and my time . . . . and yet, somehow, I get more in touch with what I really am, who I really am, here than anywhere else.
That's because I was initially formed here. It's like going back to your birthplace . . . .the Tower is still there. ...The live oaks are still there and there is a very palpable memory here, a living memory of what I felt and experienced. ....
I can see [some of my professors] in my head right now. I can hear their voices. How do you explain that? I don't know how you explain that. Some people talk that way about their religious conversions. But I have that still-fresh sense of really coming alive here. Coming back here is to be put back in touch with that."
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BORN FREE
