**Roster, etc.
----->Note: No class next week, 9/6. It's Labor Day.
**Due: Assignment on definitions: environment, ecology, nature.
**Discussion over definitions--
----->environment
----->ecology
----->nature
**Discussion over Exhibit A--influential examples of Western nature poetry:
----->The Bible: Genesis 1--the first creation story;
----->----->other key passages: Psalms 8 & 29, Romans 10 (handout);
----->----->three poems from G.M. Hopkins (handout);
----->----->by contrast: Millay, Shelley (handout).
**Exhibit B: Nature in the roots of Western philosophy:
----->"Nature" in Platonist and Stoic thought (handout).
**The debate--Is civilization or religion to blame for the destruction of the natural environment?
----->Lynn White;
----->Patrick Dobel.
**For 9/13:
----->Begin reading 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.
----->----->Write a page: Do you agree with Jamieson's argument? What is your experience with zoos? Should they be closed?
Sunday, August 29, 2010
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