Sunday, September 19, 2010

Class #4, 9/20/10

Roster, etc.
----->Questions about project, etc.  Remember that the preliminary report is due next week, 9/27.
----->Due tonight:  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].


**Here's an article about genetically-modified salmon.  Would you buy it?  Would you feed it to your family?  "Frankenfish!"



**Tonight's discussion/presentation:

  • Visuals.
  • 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.


**For 9/27:  A survey of the world's nature-values--Chapter 5.
  • Read:
    • O.P. Dwivedi,  "Satyagraha for Conservation," pp 310ff
    • Lily de Silva, "The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature," pp 319ff
    • M. Y. Izzi Deen, "Islamic Environmental Ethics," pp 323ff
    • S. Ogungbemi, "An African Perspective," pp 330ff.
  • Write:  Which of our writers do you find expresses a position closest to your own?  Summarize that position and state what there is about it that you agree with.

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