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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. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

"...compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-"

Albert Schweitzer (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)

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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

 

Peaceable Kingdom, Patti Smith

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Dass Guided Imagery

ALL GUIDED IMAGERY



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

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

OTHER GOALS

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


LOOKING AHEAD:    2:18 PEER REVIEWS DUE

P1 POINTS: BRING ANIMAL, CHANGE CANVAS IMAGE, ...........

ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT P1; EDITING FOR MINOR REPAIRS, ETC.

ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT PEER REVIEWS?

quiz in class on Documentation 

Peer Review critiquing instructions, EXAMPLES

  2-21, 2-23 Earthlings Compassion Test

 


LOOKING AHEAD further:

  2-28 P1b  Due 3-2 Hemingway, Toxic Aggression, and Animals 3-7 Dominion and Aggression, Genesis and Lord of the Flies  3-9 Swift and Carnism  3-21 Carnism and Sustainability  3-23, 3-28, 3-30 Carroll, Alice books 4-4 P2a due 4-6 Racism Alice Walker 4-11, 4-13, 4-18 Fowler, Beside Ourselves  4-20 Research Universities and Animals  Carroll, Adams 4-25 Boulle, Kafka  4-27 Paradise Regained Isaiah, Virgil  5-2 Paradise Regained Hicks, Davis 5-4 P2b due

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TODAY'S TOPICS:

 

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Musee des Beaux Arts

Best and Worst;, quiz, discussion of blogs 

574-575                 Suffering: The Fall of Icarus                              

                  576-580                 Compassion Overview

581                           Jain Guidelines

582-                          Jainism and Environmental Ethics

583-590                 Ahimsa

591                           Gandhi

592-594                 Jain Ahimsa in Practice

595-599                 Mahavira's Environmental Ethics

600-602                 Learning from Eastern Thought

603-608-                 Jewish bible: Leviticus, Isaiah

609-                            Virgil

610-613-               Fourth  Eclogue

614-615                 "Love"  John 13+15  Paul 1 Corinthians

615                           "New Self" Paul  Colossians 3

616                            "God is Love" 1 John 4

617                            John 8: Tower Motto

618-620                 "Last Supper" = "Vegetarianism?"

 

 


 

honi soit motto

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