**Handout and discussion: The Project.
**Due tonight: A page on your evaluation of Jamieson's "Against Zoos".
**A question for discussion: What is the most important factor in the way that humans have adapted to and learned to manipulate their environment? Is it genetic (innate factors) or is it cultural (a learned/shared response)?
----->See here for one view.
**Discussion of Chapter 2, "Animal Rights:"
----->----->Immanuel Kant, Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth, pp 62ff.
----->----->Peter Singer, A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation, pp 73ff.
----->Read Dale Jamieson's "Against Zoos," pp 97ff.
**For 9/20:
----->From Chapter 3, "Philosophical positions on Nature"
----->----->John Stuart Mill, "Nature," pp 123ff.
----->----->Albert Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life," pp 131ff.
----->----->Aldo Leopold, "Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic," pp 163ff
----->----->J. Baird Callicott, "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic," pp 173ff
----->----->Arne Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep," pp 215ff
----->----->Arne Naess, "Ecosophy T," pp 219ff.
----->Writing: Briefly summarize Arne Naess' position (hint: he's radical). Then, what is your case for agreeing or disagreeing with what he's saying. [About a Page].
----->----->John Stuart Mill, "Nature," pp 123ff.
----->----->Albert Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life," pp 131ff.
----->----->Aldo Leopold, "Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic," pp 163ff
----->----->J. Baird Callicott, "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic," pp 173ff
----->----->Arne Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep," pp 215ff
----->----->Arne Naess, "Ecosophy T," pp 219ff.
----->Writing: Briefly summarize Arne Naess' position (hint: he's radical). Then, what is your case for agreeing or disagreeing with what he's saying. [About a Page].
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