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LYREBIRD SINGING 

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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

 

 

LOVE IS LETTING GO OF FEAR 

 

Peaceable Kingdom, Patti Smith

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Dass Guided Imagery

ALL GUIDED IMAGERY

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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.

 

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LOOKING AHEAD

Leadership requirement, FIND YOUR NAME, PARTNER, AND SUBJECT BELOW email instructor to change partner or date

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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• Alice glanced nervously along the table, as she walked up the large hall, and noticed that there were about fifty guests, of all kinds: some were animals, some birds, and there were even a few flowers among them. '......the moment she opened her lips, there was dead silence, and all eyes were fixed upon her;..... 'Meanwhile, we'll drink your health—Queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly, and very queerly they managed it: some of them put their glasses upon their heads like extinguishers, and drank all that trickled down their faces—others upset the decanters, and drank the wine as it ran off the edges of the table—and three of them (who looked like kangaroos) scrambled into the dish of roast mutton, and began eagerly lapping up the gravy, 'just like pigs in a trough!' thought Alice.'Take care of yourself!' screamed the White Queen, seizing Alice's hair with both her hands. 'Something's going to happen!' And then (as Alice afterwards described it) all sorts of things happened in a moment. The candles all grew up to the ceiling, looking something like a bed of rushes with fireworks at the top. As to the bottles, they each took a pair of plates, which they hastily fitted on as wings, and so, with forks for legs, went fluttering about in all directions: 'and very like birds they look,' Alice thought to herself, as well as she could in the dreadful confusion that was beginning. At this moment she heard a hoarse laugh at her side, and turned to see what was the matter with the White Queen; but, instead of the Queen, there was the leg of mutton sitting in the chair. 'Here I am!' cried a voice from the souptureen, and Alice turned again, just in time to see the Queen's broad good-natured face grinning at her for a moment over the edge of the tureen, before she disappeared into the soup. There was not a moment to be lost. Already several of the guests were lying down in the dishes, and the soup-ladle was walking up the table towards Alice's chair, and beckoning to her impatiently to get out of its way. 'I can't stand this any longer!' she cried, as she jumped up and seized the tablecloth with both hands: one good pull, and plates, dishes, guests and candles came crashing down together in a heap on the floor.

 

 

MUTINY. LEADERS HORSE AND OTTER

Best and Worst ; quiz, discussion of blogs 

JAGUAR'S BLOG FOR 2-28: )"The rice eating Hindoo and Chinese and the potato eating Irish peasant are kept in subjection by the well fed English" I was not surprised by this thought process. The gender politics that labels the Orient as female also seamlessly transforms into a 'meat politics' of sorts that sees east's compassion for animals as a weakness. The first uprising against the British rule occurred in 1857 when the soldiers were forced to work with bullet cartridges that were supposedly made out out of cow and pig meat. The cow was holy to the hindu's and the pig was unholy to the muslims and hence this disregard for the east's valued led to the revolution of 1857 when Mangal Pande refused to use these cartridges.

Global Ethics of Diet: the Indian Mutiny of 1857

1101-1109               Through the Looking Glass  2

                            1101-1104  coronation banquet

                                       1105             Shaking

                                        1106             Waking

                                         1107             Which Dreamed It?

1110-1113                 Imperialism

1114-1164           1857 Reader  

1165-1173           War of No Pity

1174-1175           Cattle and Violence In India Today

MUTINY OF THE ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ETC

1176-1178                                James Patterson, ZOO

1179-1180                                         George Orwell, Animal Farm

 

 

 

REVIEW

986-1010              Jerome Bump, "Biophilia and Emotive Ethics,"

Ethics and the Environment          19.2 (Fall 2014):  56-87.

1011-1020                  Jerome Bump, "Alice the Conqueror"

1021-1042             Kipling, "William the Conqueror"         

1043-1084                 Alice in Wonderland

1044-1048  Chapter 1  Down the Rabbit Hole;

1049-1053  Chapter 2: Pool of Tears;

1053-1057 Chapter 3: A Caucus Race and a Long Tale;

1057-1062 Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends in a Bill;

1063-1066 Ch. 5  Advice from a Caterpillar;

1066-1071  Ch. 6 Pig and Pepper;

1072-1077   Ch. 7 Mad Tea Party; 

1078-1083     Ch. 8 Croquet

911-920           Jerome Bump, draft, "Alice the Conqueror"

1084-            Through the Looking Glass selections

                                            1087-1092   Looking Glass House  Jabberwocky                                            

1093-            Insects

                                             1095-1096            [the fawn]

                                              1096-1100            Tweedledum and Tweedledee

                                            1097-1100       ["the Walrus and the Carpenter"]