For Class #3, 2/4/13

I'm very sorry to have to cancel class one more time. My dad passed away Thursday evening and services are scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.

We WILL resume classes on the 11th, next Monday, and at that meeting we can discuss adjustments that need to be made to the reading and assignment schedules. We will also give the semester project a thorough discussion. A few of you have e-mailed your first week's reflections to me. Please continue to do so. Whatever comes in I will try to have back to you next Monday.

Here is the next set of assignments, due the eleventh.

Reading, from Chapter 2, "Animal Rights," some classic positions on the treatment of animals and "sentient life:"
------>Immanuel Kant, Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth, pp 60-61, from the late 1700s;
------>Peter Singer, A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation, pp 71-80, from 1976;
------>Dale Jamieson, Against Zoos, pp 96--102, from 1985.

Writing:
------>about a page: does Dr. Singer make a convincing case about the need to change our thinking about how we treat certain living things other than ourselves? If so, does that influence your agreement or disagreement with Dr. Jamieson's ideas about the morality of zoos? Please develop your answers sufficiently.

See you all next week!