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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.
LOOKING AHEAD:2-14 Texas Totem Animal LEADER?
[2-14 St. Valentine's Day Christian]
TEXAS TOTEM ANIMALS
466-470 Dobie introduction
471-488 J Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
489 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
490-495 Longhorns at U.T.
496-497 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
498-500 Texas Longhorn: origins
501-508 Learning from Longhorns
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TOTEM ANIMAL ORIGINS: CATTLE
509-512 Cattle in Ancient History
513-521 Cattle in World Religions
514-517 Cattle in Hinduism
517 Cattle in Judaism, Islam, Jainism
518- Cattle in Ancient Egypt
518-521 Cattle in Asia today
522-524 Cattle in Hinduism
525-529 Cattle in Jainism-
530 Cattle in the Odyssey
531-532The Sacred Calf in the Bible
533-540 Hemingway on bullfighting
541-573 Hemingway MS
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2-16COMPASSION EAST AND WESTBest and Worst;, quiz, discussion of blogs LEADER?
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?"
LOOKING AHEAD further:
2-21, 2-23 Earthlings Compassion Test 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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BEST AND WORST
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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