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LOOKING BACK:

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CONNECT TODAY'S TOPIC TO PREVIOUS TOPICS:

9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism,  Lord of the Flies;

+ 9-6  PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic 

Imagination,

HAMMER YOUR THOUGHTS INTO UNITY

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INSPIRATIONS

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 (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. 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.

 

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech

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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

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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

 

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Dass Guided Imagery

three contemporary guided meditations that may help you find a power animal in the Native American tradition:

Steven Farmer

Shamanic

Denise Linn

this is another calisthenic of the sympathetic imagination, trying to imagine what it was like to be Native American, especially their connection to nature. And, of course, that way it is 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, anotherWeltanshauung, 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.

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

 

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blogs for the week due by 11:59 PM the previous Sunday.

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ETHICS GOALS

[2A2] 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 primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre

[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

OTHER GOALS

[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

[ To practice listening.

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  Hogarth, "Four Stages of Cruelty"

  9-8  Obstacles to Compassion: the Need for Domination

Sadism 2ND half b&w; QUIZ;  

THE CHALLENGE: LOVE VS FEAR, AGAPE VS THANATOS, COMPASSION VS SADISM

 436-440                    Bump, "Biophobia, Sadism, and the Divided Self"
441-449                Golding, Lord of the Flies: "Piggy" [BRITISH]
450-456               Hogarth, "Four stages of cruelty" and animal cruelty [BRITISH]
457                        Terrorism and animal cruelty
458-462                Animal Cruelty sundrome
463-                        Crush videos protected
464-466                The New Sadism
467-471                Yale and Stanford Experiments
472-506                        Zimbardo report

 

 

 

 

Stanford Prison Experiment 2015 movie, trailer:   https://youtu.be/7LviGTHud5w

Stanford Prison Experiment 2010 movie, trailer :

http://youtu.be/4Q7oH4WH8wU

Stanford Prison Experiment documentary:

http://youtu.be/fKT-LcFrA78

 

Yale Experiment 2015 movie, trailer:

https://youtu.be/O1VOZhwRvWo

 

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https://youtu.be/SNrL7hq7WVg

Crush Videos

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O60TYAIgC4 (Links to an external site.)
Minimize Video

 Above: Video from Harlow's monkey research on love.

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/GelOzUYb6Wc

Starving a Dog to Death as "Art"

  Guardian article

 

 

Schadenfreude

 

http://youtu.be/4XmZIcmRKkc

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