tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63995129318458631562024-02-07T16:51:54.623-08:00Perspectives on the IndividualGudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-54969452948990878822013-07-27T22:55:00.002-07:002013-07-27T22:55:11.138-07:00So What Is the Individual?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi All,<br />
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After reading and listening to what others have said about the individual - and after writing about various perspectives on the individual yourself - I would like to invite you to rethink our original questions.<br />
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These original questions were:</h4>
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1. Who am I?<br />
2. What do I want to do with my life to make it meaningful?<br />
3. How can I use my specific skills, talents, preferences, and character traits to help others and to make a positive difference in the world?<br />
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Perhaps the following three visual "maps" will help you get started:</h4>
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Or try thinking about the topic by finishing the following sentences to create true (and truthful) sentences:</h4>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The world
is ...</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>-> please write at least 3 sentences that you think are true about the world </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Like
everybody in my circle of friends/ community, I am ... </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i> -> please name 3 characteristics that you share with many of your friends and/or with the majority of the people in your community</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Unlike
everybody else in my circle of friends/community, I am </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>-> please name 3 characteristics that you don't share with the majority of your friends or with the majority of other members of your community</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>My
greatest strengths are </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>-> please list 3 or more </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>My
greatest weaknesses are </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>-> please name at least 3</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I
was 5 I was/ could …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I
was 8 I was/ could …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I
was 10 I was/ could …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I
was 12 I was/ could …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I
was 15 I was/ could …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Now I am/can …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In 5
years I will be (able to) …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>In 10
years I will be (able to) …<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I really
love the following [gifts/ qualities/ people/ animals/ activities/ opportunities/ etc] </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>-> name as many as you like but at least 10</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I am
grateful in particular for the following 5 (or more) gifts: </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I would
like to learn in particular the following 5 skills: </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>What is
it that has changed in my life?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>What in my life has remained the same?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>What is
it that makes me me?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Who am I – and who have I always been and will always be?</i></span></span></div>
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Enjoy exploring yourself - and then using your insights to find your special path!</div>
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Thanks for a wonderful term!</div>
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Gudrun</div>
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-55310604731974223162013-06-11T14:15:00.004-07:002013-06-11T14:15:43.358-07:00Perspectives on the Self from around the World, Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi All,<br />
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In preparation for our FDU Multicultural Day on June 28th, I would like to invite you to share interesting and important views of the individual from a culture of your choice. Anything is fine: poems, stories, plays, articles, art, music, dance, religion, mythology, psychology, sociology, political science, biology, history, philosophy, etc.<br />
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Please post relevant links as well as a brief intro to your chosen text or talk or art work or performance or clip or etc and a brief statement of why you like it.<br />
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Thank you!<br />
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gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-37192661271441484432013-05-26T21:50:00.004-07:002013-05-27T01:30:47.961-07:00Religious, Non-Religious, and Spiritual Perspectives on the Individual<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi All,<br />
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Since our class discussion last week got us into the topic of religion, I thought I should give you the opportunity to share your reflections, observations, insights and ideas about this topic with the rest of us. After all, religion is a very personal topic and therefore deeply connected with the innermost core of the individual. However, since religion and spirituality are therefore also a very emotional topics for many people, I would like you to be open-minded and to treat people with different views with utmost politeness and respect :)<br />
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I think it is very important for all of us to learn about religious and spiritual belief systems that are different from our own in order to understand and appreciate the cultural diversity of this world. And better understanding what we commonly think of as "the other" is often a first step to realizing that "the other" is not as different from us as we originally assumed - and will therefore bring us closer to what we all want: World Peace.<br />
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Please feel free to share here aspects of any form of religion or spirituality that you find interesting. This is not restricted to the traditional religions but may include non-institutionalized religions (such as shamanism) as well as spirituality in a more general sense as well. Of course, the very opposite of religion, atheism, is part of the spectrum of possibilities as well - and should therefore NOT be excluded.<br />
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Please feel also free to include other meta-physical topics here - i.e. topics about anything that transcends the physical and that can therefore not be perceived by our 5 physical senses, such as near-death experiences, ESP, etc.<br />
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Religion, philosophy, and mythology (in its traditional sense of 'the science of sacred stories') - as well as, of course, anthropology, archeology, history, biology, chemistry, physics, literature, all forms of art, as well as language itself - are all very closely linked and contribute equally to helping us figure out who we are. I think it makes sense for us to learn as much as we can in all these areas (and in other areas as well) if we truly want to understand our innermost nature.<br />
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So if you have figured out something that makes sense to you, please tell us about it. It might also make sense to the rest of us. Feel also free, of course, to share links to texts and/or videos that you find interesting in this context.<br />
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I would like to start with a few clips that I found quite interesting:<br />
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1) Following our in-class discussions about the close connections of Judaism and Islam (and also Christianity, which developed out of Judaism), I would like to draw your attention to the following youtube clips about this topic:<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6i0awfukg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6i0awfukg</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA2N2Iz5ExM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA2N2Iz5ExM</a><br />
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2) Introduction to Religion in General:<br />
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Nature of Religion:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfdT440-qk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfdT440-qk</a><br />
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Chronological sequence & geographical location:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLCIMKv17k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLCIMKv17k</a><br />
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Function(s) of Religion:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOjhMw4-oQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOjhMw4-oQ</a><br />
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Living in a World without God -> Existentialist Ethics:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs9D4vy2FHI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs9D4vy2FHI</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilg7PiDD8yY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilg7PiDD8yY</a><br />
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The Future of Religions & Spirituality in Our Global World:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgYbR8HgKnI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgYbR8HgKnI</a><br />
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Thank you!<br />
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Gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-48399312122127983662013-04-18T19:20:00.004-07:002013-04-18T19:20:55.832-07:00Additional Perspectives on the Individual<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear All,<br />
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Please write about anything else here that is relevant for our course topic!</h4>
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I hope you have learned more about yourself - as well as about the world - by thinking about the individual from different perspectives.<br />
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Have a wonderful summer!<br />
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Gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-7578420000639801942013-04-18T19:17:00.005-07:002013-04-18T19:17:45.514-07:00Creative Perspectives on the Individual - Part 3: Mirrors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Please look into a mirror. Don't just look at your outward you but try to see deeper. What can you see? Feel free to answer this question in either a personal or creative way.</h3>
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Enjoy!<br />
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g</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-1803756014597612012013-04-18T19:13:00.000-07:002013-04-18T19:16:03.750-07:00Creative Perspectives on the Individual - Part 2: Masks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Find the image of a mask you find fascinating (e.g. by typing into google: "mask cultural images"). Look at it carefully and try to absorb all the details.</h3>
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Option 1)</h4>
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Try to get a sense/feel of the spirit that the mask embodies. Then imagine you are wearing the mask and you are becoming the personality of the mask. Tell us about your new you in any genre you wish (e.g. story, journal entry, email message, poem, dialogue, description etc).<br />
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Option 2)</h4>
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Do some research about the mask: culture, meaning, symbolism, cultural and/or historical and/or social and/or religious and/or mythological background and tell us about it.<br />
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This, too, is meant to be fun! Enjoy to be someone else!<br />
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gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-9405814211661717242013-04-18T19:05:00.002-07:002013-04-18T19:15:29.625-07:00Creative Perspectives on the Individual - Part 1: Archetypes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Archetypes play a role in many myths and epics throughout the world. They are also used in contemporary poetry and fiction - as well as in movies.</h3>
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Please look at the list of Archetypes that Caroline Myss put together: <a href="http://www.myss.com/library/contracts/determine.asp">http://www.myss.com/library/contracts/determine.asp</a><br />
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Pick two or three archetypes from the list that you find particularly interesting. Think about them - and try to imagine they are real people.<br />
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Write a story or a poem - or anything else you wish - in which your chosen archetypes interact with each other and see what happens :)<br />
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Option 2)</h4>
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Read the quotations from Carl Jung's work about archetypes and think about the topic of archetypes in connection with our course topic.<br />
<a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/psychology/jung_abstracts.shtml">http://www.voidspace.org.uk/psychology/jung_abstracts.shtml</a><br />
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Feel free to do this in a creative way.<br />
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Read Northrop Frye's Essay "Archetypal Criticism - Theory of Myths" and discuss its relevance of the self.<br />
<a href="http://northropfrye-theanatomyofcriticism.blogspot.ca/2009/02/third-essay-archetypal-criticism-theory.html">http://northropfrye-theanatomyofcriticism.blogspot.ca/2009/02/third-essay-archetypal-criticism-theory.html</a><br />
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Again, you are welcome to use a creative approach!<br />
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Option 4)</h4>
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Find a poem or story or movie or other creative work (art, music, dance, etc) that is based on one (or more than one) particular archetype and tell us more about it!<br />
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This is meant to be fun! Please enjoy!<br />
Gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-1402909154377450802013-04-18T18:49:00.001-07:002013-04-18T19:24:52.130-07:00Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual - Part 4: Eastern Philosophy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Please read your selected passages in the texts below [feel free to choose alternative texts!]</span></h3>
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a) Eihei Dogen Zenji, <i>Shobogenzo Zuimonki</i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please read around in all 6 books. Here the link to the first passage in book 1:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/common_html/zuimonki/01-01.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://global.sotozen-net.or.<wbr></wbr>jp/common_html/zuimonki/01-01.<wbr></wbr>html</a>(scroll down on the left for more)</span></div>
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b) Takuan Soho, <i>The Unfettered Mind </i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-> choose your favourite passages</span><br />
<a href="http://info.stiltij.nl/publiek/meditatie/leraren/_historisch/takuan-unfetteredmind.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://info.stiltij.nl/<wbr></wbr>publiek/meditatie/leraren/_<wbr></wbr>historisch/takuan-<wbr></wbr>unfetteredmind.pdf</span></a></div>
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c) Thich Nhat Hanh, <i>The 14 Mindfulness Trainings</i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.plumvillage.org/mindfulness-trainings/340-14mt-revised.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.plumvillage.org/<wbr></wbr>mindfulness-trainings/340-<wbr></wbr>14mt-revised.html</a> or:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.deepriversangha.org/14_mindfulness_trainings.htm" style="font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.deepriversangha.org/14_mindfulness_trainings.htm</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.gita4free.com/english_completegita.html">http://www.gita4free.com/english_completegita.html</a>or listen to the youtube version:</span><br />
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-13539250095515027852013-04-18T18:33:00.001-07:002013-04-18T18:33:49.323-07:00Multicultural Perspectives on the Individual<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Please read M.G. Vassanji's novel <i>No New Land</i> and discuss any aspect of the book that you find interesting for our course topic (i.e. Perspectives on the Individual).<br />
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Feel also free to compare <i>No New Land</i> with other novels, stories, poems, or movies that address similar topics and/or compare the experiences of Vassanji's main characters with similar experiences you or one of your friends or family members may have had.<br />
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You are most welcome to comment in the form of stories or poems or other forms of creative expression :)<br />
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gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-54984825790843599142013-04-18T18:26:00.003-07:002013-04-18T18:27:20.557-07:00Thematic Perspectives on the Individual<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi All,<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">1.1. Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man": </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Mirandola/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://vserver1.cscs.<wbr></wbr>lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/<wbr></wbr>Mirandola/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">1.2. Jesus - transcribed by author of Gospel of Matthew, "The Sermon on the Mount": </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.loveallpeople.org/sermononthemount.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>loveallpeople.org/<wbr></wbr>sermononthemount.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">2.1 Tillie Olsen, "Tell Me a Riddle" (short story OR movie) - NOT available for free -> see: </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081611/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/<wbr></wbr>title/tt0081611/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">2.2. Deepak Chopra, "Life after Death" (youtube): </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgnb-JI9glM" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.<wbr></wbr>com/watch?v=Xgnb-JI9glM</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">3.1. Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough": </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://capone.mtsu.edu/phollowa/5sexes.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://capone.mtsu.<wbr></wbr>edu/phollowa/5sexes.html</a></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">3.2. Helen Fisher, "Why We Love, Why We Cheat" (TED talk): </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_tells_us_why_we_love_cheat.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/<wbr></wbr>talks/helen_fisher_tells_us_<wbr></wbr>why_we_love_cheat.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">4.1. Franz Kafka, "Before the Law" (youtube-movie in German - but you can click on the English text in the comment section): </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak6uO9k7zyU" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.<wbr></wbr>com/watch?v=ak6uO9k7zyU</a></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">English text also at: </span><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lawyerslit/exercises/kafka.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~<wbr></wbr>jelkins/lawyerslit/exercises/<wbr></wbr>kafka.htm</a></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;">4.2. Yukio Mishima, "Swaddeling Clothes" (short story): </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.101bananas.com/library2/swaddling.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.101bananas.<wbr></wbr>com/library2/swaddling.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">5.1. Arcadii Averchenko, "The Young Man Who Flew Past":</span><a href="http://www.101bananas.com/library2/youngman.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.101bananas.com/library2/youngman.html</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;">5.2. Hermann Hesse, "The Poet": </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.101bananas.com/library2/poet.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.101bananas.<wbr></wbr>com/library2/poet.html</a></span><br />
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-67135907072600894472013-04-16T23:56:00.000-07:002013-04-18T18:40:25.746-07:00Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual - Part 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Key Questions in Philosophy about the Self</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: windowtext;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="color: windowtext;">1) Who am I?</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">2) Why am I here? What is my purpose/mission in
life? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">3) Where do I come from and where am I going to? ->
implies another question, namely:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;"> -> What is
the nature of the world/ of reality?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 16pt;">Three
Major Strands in Philosophy: </span></b><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 16pt;">Monism - Dualism - Pluralism</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Monism</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">From “mono” = ‘one’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">* everything is an expression of one and the same
substance (i.e. spirit or mind or matter)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">*
the fundamental nature of the universe is therefore unity <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">(cf. word “uni-verse” = ‘one’ &
‘turned into’ -> ‘all turned into one’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;"> similar to Greek holon = ‘whole’)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Dualism</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">From
“duo” = ‘two’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">*
dichotomy of world into two different substances, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;"> i.e.: everything belongs either to one or
the other of two <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this implies a fundamental separation or split <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;"> (for example into good vs evil, mind vs
matter or mind vs body; us vs them)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Pluralism</span></b></h4>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">From
“plus, pluris” = ‘more [than one]’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">*
world composed of many different substances
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">*
there is no one truth/ reality but many truths/ realities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all truth is therefore seen as relative <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Monism in Philosophy Can Be
Subdivided into 3 Different Kinds</span></b></h4>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">1) </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt;">IDEAS
(which are an expression of the mind/spirit) are the basis for everything
else <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">=>
Idealism<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">Examples:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">logos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">a mental image<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spoken word <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt;">2) </span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt;">MATTER (i.e. something that is
manifest in physical reality) is the substance that underlies everything else<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">=>
Materialism<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">Examples:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">water <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">3) Some
kind of ENERGY underlies everything:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">Examples:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">apeiron
= 'the undefined infinite' = something undefinable (Anaximander);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">change
(Heraclitos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">some
eternal, static reality (Parmenides),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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divine syllable Om,
the cosmic vibration that underlies all existence (<i>Upanishads</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Please note: Pantheism and
Panentheism are both forms of Monism!</span></b></h4>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Panthesim: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">“pan”
= ‘all’ – “theos”
= ‘ god’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">everything
is a manifestation of the divine -> god is in everything<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">Panenthesim:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">“pan”
= ‘all’ – “theos”
= ‘ god’ – “en” = ‘inside’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: inherit;">everything
is in god (i.e. god is all there is, and the universe & we all are all in
him/her)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b>-> Please look at the texts that we have read this class and figure out if you can see elements of Monism, Dualism, and/or Pluralism in any of them!</b></span></h3>
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-36201627903269249602013-04-12T00:27:00.000-07:002013-04-18T19:48:30.279-07:00Literary Perspectives on the Individual - Part 3: The Romantics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear All,<br />
<br />
The Romantic Movement in Europe is crucial for our present understanding of the Individual. Please watch the following Introductions to Romanticism and then read the suggested poems.<br />
<br />
<h3>
Introductions to the Romantic Period:</h3>
<br />
<h4>
BBC Series (on British Romanticism)</h4>
<br />
(1) The Romantics - Nature:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGugapN0hs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGugapN0hs</a><br />
<br />
(2) The Romantics - Liberty:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAMEK3GLOQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAMEK3GLOQ</a><br />
<br />
<br />
(3) The Romantics - Eternity:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UF4_WACOTw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UF4_WACOTw</a><br />
<br />
<h4>
The Romantic Spirit - Series in Several Parts</h4>
<br />
"The Golden Age"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPd6v_m1tC0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPd6v_m1tC0</a><br />
<br />
"Paradise Lost"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUlGx4bTr8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUlGx4bTr8</a><br />
<br />
"Night"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tneCMFhQMrI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tneCMFhQMrI</a><br />
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"Triumph of Death"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCfrt8Sr3I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCfrt8Sr3I</a><br />
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"The Romantic Hero"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIc-tq6gB_w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIc-tq6gB_w</a><br />
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"The Romantic Explosion"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHrzusEh6CA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHrzusEh6CA</a><br />
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"The Triumph of Romanticism?"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWMb_rmZKsM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWMb_rmZKsM</a><br />
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Examples of Romantic Poetry in England</h3>
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<h4>
William Blake (1757-1827)</h4>
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<b>Visual Art</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.gailgastfield.com/blake3.html">http://www.gailgastfield.com/blake3.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/">http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/</a><br />
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<b>Poems</b><br />
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"Love's Secret"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/loves_secret.html">http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/loves_secret.html</a><br />
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"Mad Song"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/mad_song.html">http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/mad_song.html</a><br />
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"The Tiger"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_tiger.html">http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_tiger.html</a><br />
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"To the Evening Star"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/to_the_evening_star.html">http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/to_the_evening_star.html</a><br />
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<b>Video about Blake</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7ju8XkMrg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7ju8XkMrg</a><br />
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<h4>
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)</h4>
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"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"<br />
<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html">http://www.bartleby.com/101/536.html</a><br />
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"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"<br />
<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html">http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html</a><br />
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"Resolution and Independence"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174814">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174814</a><br />
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"I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174790</a><br />
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"To a Skylark"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174830">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174830</a><br />
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)</h4>
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173253">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173253</a><br />
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Illustrated youtube version in 5 parts:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Part 1: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EpuaCaPML8" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EpuaCaPML8</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Part 2: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6TYaeI-NKQ" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6TYaeI-NKQ</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Part 3: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk43D5W_K8" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk43D5W_K8</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Part 4: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqDxAFW7jL4" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqDxAFW7jL4</a></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Part 5: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7fjTB9xbw" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7fjTB9xbw</a></span></div>
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"Kubla Khan"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173247">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173247</a><br />
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"Love"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173249">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173249</a><br />
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"The Eolian Harp"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/183957">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/183957</a><br />
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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)</h4>
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"Stanzas for Music"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173102">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173102</a><br />
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"She Walks in Beauty"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173100">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173100</a><br />
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"Prometheus"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173099">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173099</a><br />
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<h4>
John Keats (1795-1821)</h4>
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173742">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173742</a><br />
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"Ode to a Nightingale"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173744">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173744</a><br />
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"Ode on Melancholy"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173743">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173743</a><br />
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<h4>
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)</h4>
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"Ozymandias"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/238972#poem">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/238972#poem</a><br />
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"Ode to the West Wind"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174401">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174401</a><br />
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"To a Skylark"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174413">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174413</a><br />
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"Love's Philosophy"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180605">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180605</a><br />
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"Prometheus Unbound"<br />
<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174403">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174403</a><br />
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<h4>
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)</h4>
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<i>Frankenstein - or the Modern Prometheus</i> (novel)</div>
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<a href="http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Frankenstein.pdf">http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Frankenstein.pdf</a><br />
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In Germany, there was a pre-romantic movement that promoted similar ideas, called Sturm und Drang (1760s to 1780s). The most prominent representatives of that movement were:<br />
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)</h4>
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"Prometheus"<br />
-> bilingual handout (with my translation) or check out a different English translation at:<br />
<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2110&chapter=162981&layout=html&Itemid=27">http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2110&chapter=162981&layout=html&Itemid=27</a><br />
(scroll down to the very bottom of the page!)<br />
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"Ganymede"<br />
-> bilingual handout (with my translation) or check out a different English translation at:<br />
<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2110&chapter=162983&layout=html&Itemid=27">http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2110&chapter=162983&layout=html&Itemid=27</a><br />
(scroll down to the very bottom of the page!)<br />
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<i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i><br />
<a href="http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/goethe/sorrows-young-werther.pdf">http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/goethe/sorrows-young-werther.pdf</a><br />
audiobook:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2khTOPCY9o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2khTOPCY9o</a><br />
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<i>Goetz von Berlichingen</i><br />
<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2113&chapter=164447&layout=html&Itemid=27">http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2113&chapter=164447&layout=html&Itemid=27</a><br />
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Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)</h4>
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<i>The Robbers</i><br />
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6782">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6782</a><br />
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<i>Intrigue and Love</i><br />
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6784">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6784</a><br />
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<i>Don Carlos</i><br />
<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6789">http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6789</a><br />
<i><br /></i>
"Ode to Joy"<br />
<a href="http://www.raptusassociation.org/ode1785.html">http://www.raptusassociation.org/ode1785.html</a><br />
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-50148304098687650942013-04-07T13:56:00.001-07:002013-04-07T14:10:06.992-07:00Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual - Part 2 - The beginning of Western PhilosophyDear All,<br />
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Among the most famous thinkers of Western Philosophy are Socrates and Plato. Unfortunately, Socrates didn't write any books. What has survived of his philosophy has been written down by others, in particular by Plato, who was Socrates's most famous student as well as the most influential Greek philosopher of all times.<br />
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Please find below some introductory information to Socrates, Plato, and their Time.<br />
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<h2>
The Background: Ancient Greece</h2>
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<h3>
Greek Mythology</h3>
<br />
The Greek Gods - Part 1:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe389uQhmo&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe389uQhmo&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6</a><br />
The Greek Gods - Part 2:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cojMxsgZY&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6&playnext=1&feature=autoplay">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cojMxsgZY&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6&playnext=1&feature=autoplay</a><br />
The Greek Gods - Part 3:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqiKUzkGC3g&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6&playnext=2&feature=autoplay">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqiKUzkGC3g&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6&playnext=2&feature=autoplay</a><br />
The Greek Gods - Part 4:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR57FjeY_lk&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6&playnext=3&feature=autoplay">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR57FjeY_lk&list=PL5DBE9C9D4F4524E6&playnext=3&feature=autoplay</a><br />
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<h3>
Historical & Cultural Background</h3>
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Athens - Part 1:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEH7cINmzQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rEH7cINmzQ</a><br />
Athens - Part 2:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDXpeuwDmE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDXpeuwDmE</a><br />
Athens - Part 3:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrHoeY1KZM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrHoeY1KZM</a><br />
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<h3>
Plato</h3>
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Introduction to Plato - Part 1:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2sMQS1ZBLk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2sMQS1ZBLk</a><br />
Introduction to Plato - Part 2:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2aJ8yRa9w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2aJ8yRa9w</a><br />
Introduction to Plato - Part 3:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_xgSnB6dho">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_xgSnB6dho</a><br />
Introduction to Plato - Part 4:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlvc5yk1qg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTlvc5yk1qg</a><br />
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Plato's Cave Allegory (from Book 7 of his <i>Republic</i>) - Animated Version:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6LUptADIww">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6LUptADIww</a><br />
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Conversation about Plato:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBQRuMfs2E&list=PL0B00E0285B052181">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBQRuMfs2E&list=PL0B00E0285B052181</a><br />
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<h3>
Socrates</h3>
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Play about his "Apology":<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5-gQ7kUjk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5-gQ7kUjk</a><br />
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Alain de Botton - Happiness Series: Socrates on Self Confidence<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24FxdvfOko">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24FxdvfOko</a><br />
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Interesting Student Project about Socrates:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941OKdKmq9Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941OKdKmq9Q</a><br />
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Movie about Socrates (in Spanish):<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c-nJVwsWq0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c-nJVwsWq0</a><br />
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The Texts for this Class</h3>
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Plato - "Euthyphro":<br />
<a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html</a><br />
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Plato - "Apology":<br />
<a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html</a><br />
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Plato - "Crito":<br />
<a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html</a><br />
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Also really interesting:</h4>
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Plato - <i>The Republic: </i>about his Vision of the Ideal State:<br />
<a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html</a><br />
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Plato - <i>Symposium:</i> about Love:<br />
Written Text:<br />
<a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html</a><br />
Audio Book:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3MFf7I_vY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp3MFf7I_vY</a><br />
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Making Connections:<br />
Please compare Plato's Cave Allegory (from Book 7 of his <i>Republic</i>) <<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6LUptADIww">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6LUptADIww</a>><br />
with Michael Talbot's ideas about "The Universe as Hologram" <<a href="http://rense.com/general69/holoff.htm" style="text-align: left;">http://rense.com/general69/holoff.htm</a>><br />
Do you think there are connections? Explore them!<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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<br />Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-6199702354002508302013-03-04T13:18:00.006-08:002013-04-07T13:06:29.081-07:00Literary Perspectives on the Individual - Part 2: The Epic of Gilgamesh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi All,<br />
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<i>The Epic of Gilgamesh</i> is one of the oldest literary works we have.<br />
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Here some introductory information.<br />
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Background</h4>
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Civilizations - Mesopotamia:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAWdf4SKkhA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAWdf4SKkhA</a><br />
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Mesopotamia - the First Civilization on Earth:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8v2vRlLL58">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8v2vRlLL58</a><br />
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Sumerer - Wikipedia (youtube)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__KltEH-vw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__KltEH-vw</a><br />
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Introduction to the Epic of Gilgamesh</h4>
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Introductory Lecture:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lxviaQ5AI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lxviaQ5AI</a><br />
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Overview (2 parts):<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2TYgCytbLY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2TYgCytbLY</a> &<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7hR3HghIs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7hR3HghIs</a><br />
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Wikipedia Article:<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh</a><br />
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Gilgamesh Project (in Spanish)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD4E-BVNcOY&list=PLA6415FFEE1C219ED&index=28">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD4E-BVNcOY&list=PLA6415FFEE1C219ED&index=28</a><br />
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Spark Notes:<br />
<a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gilgamesh/section9.rhtml">http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gilgamesh/section9.rhtml</a><br />
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Text of Epic of Gilgamesh & Conversion of the Text into Other Media</h4>
Official Course Text:<br />
Translation of Gilgamesh by David Ferry (available for $9 from Amazon):<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-New-Rendering-English-Verse/dp/0374523835">http://www.amazon.com/Gilgamesh-New-Rendering-English-Verse/dp/0374523835</a><br />
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Text of first 11 Tablets:<br />
<a href="http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/">http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/</a><br />
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or:<br />
<a href="http://www.dpcdsb.org/NR/rdonlyres/16A16FBD-B5A3-4C03-9339-58ED61EB8004/17883/THEEPICOFGILGAMESH.pdf">http://www.dpcdsb.org/NR/rdonlyres/16A16FBD-B5A3-4C03-9339-58ED61EB8004/17883/THEEPICOFGILGAMESH.pdf</a><br />
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Full Text (including Tablet 12):<br />
<a href="http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/">http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/</a><br />
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Audio Version of the Story (11 parts):<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHInCYIGq3E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHInCYIGq3E</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxauXl43eG4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxauXl43eG4</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1OufYJnoU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1OufYJnoU</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zwVo-sZXig">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zwVo-sZXig</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3GztjYfQc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3GztjYfQc</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R00X_Tdacw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R00X_Tdacw</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRbFzV8kdM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CRbFzV8kdM</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGKm7maHgw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGKm7maHgw</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxy_SJ6RCFw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxy_SJ6RCFw</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHJvM36RvIs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHJvM36RvIs</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSxHO_RUjT8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSxHO_RUjT8</a><br />
<br />
Animation of the Story (short summary):<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrfrHys8g8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrfrHys8g8</a><br />
<br />
Short Movie (summary):<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopr-PrgMfw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gopr-PrgMfw</a><br />
<br />
Gilgamesh Modernized Movie:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcgzz1jyvY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcgzz1jyvY</a><br />
<br />
<br />
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Music Inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh:</h4>
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Song:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHIrBIICuc&list=PLA6415FFEE1C219ED&index=12">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHIrBIICuc&list=PLA6415FFEE1C219ED&index=12</a><br />
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Opera<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYATu4H9ZUo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYATu4H9ZUo</a><br />
<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh</a></div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-58619977388261062842013-02-24T23:29:00.000-08:002013-04-16T23:24:35.847-07:00Scientific Perspectives on the Individual<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear All,<br />
<br />
Some of the findings and theories of modern science, in particular quantum mechanics, question dramatically the traditional western view of the individual - as well as of reality.<br />
<br />
Please watch first either the full version of the movie <i>What the Bleep Do We Know</i><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioONhpIJ-NY&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioONhpIJ-NY&feature=related</a><br />
<br />
<u>or</u> the slightly expanded <i>What the Bleep - Down the Rabbit Hole</i><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMsTPg-hHk&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMsTPg-hHk&feature=related</a><br />
<br />
and then familiarize yourself a bit further with Quantum Physics/ Quantum Mechanics and its implications by watching one of the following documentaries:<br />
<br />
Brian Green - Quantum Mechanics Explained<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqd8Oa-sA4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqd8Oa-sA4</a><br />
<br />
Michio Kaku on Quantum Mechanics<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzsN9N8hfAg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzsN9N8hfAg</a><br />
<br />
HD The Universe Season 7 - Quantum Mechanics<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKLJ_mGnUDc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKLJ_mGnUDc</a><br />
<br />
Michael Talbot - in <i>Thinking Allowed </i> - "Synchronicity and the Holographic Universe"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew</a><br />
<br />
Please also read the following two articles:<br />
<br />
"The Universe as Hologram":<br />
<a href="http://rense.com/general69/holoff.htm">http://rense.com/general69/holoff.htm</a><br />
<br />
"Cosmology and the 21st Century Culture":<br />
<a href="http://physics.ucsc.edu/cosmo/primack_abrams/htmlformat/Science2ndproof.html">http://physics.ucsc.edu/cosmo/primack_abrams/htmlformat/Science2ndproof.html</a><br />
<br />
Then think about the implications of these new scientific theories and ideas for your own life :)<br />
<br />
Thank you!<br />
<br />
gudrun<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-34148189680202099152013-02-17T16:32:00.000-08:002013-04-16T23:45:58.582-07:00Psychological Perspectives on the Individual - Part 2: Manipulating the Masses - the Story of Consumerism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear All,<br />
<br />
1)<br />
Please watch the following two videos:<br />
<br />
* <i>The Happiness Machine</i><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prTarrgvkjo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prTarrgvkjo</a><br />
<br />
* <i>The Story of Stuff</i><br />
<i> </i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8</a><br />
<br />
* <i>The Story of Change</i><br />
<i> </i><a href="http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-change/">http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-change/</a><br />
<br />
Feel free to think about your own habit of "buying stuff" and try to analyze it critically.<br />
<br />
Please also ask yourself the following questions:<br />
<br />
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>What makes you buy something and decide which of many similar products you decide on? </li>
<li>How long are you, on average happy about a particular product? </li>
<li>Do you follow what is "in" or fashionable? If so, why - if not, why not? </li>
<li>How does following fashion take away from your individuality?</li>
<li>What does following fashion take away from your own natural beauty (as opposed to some abstract beauty ideal that someone has decided on)?</li>
<li>What role do the mass media play in controlling the behavior of the masses?</li>
</ul>
<br />
<br />
2)<br />
Another side of consumerism is, as Annie Leonard pointed out in her video, the destruction of the environment. Please think a bit more about how consumerism ultimately creates the following:<br />
<br />
<ul>
<li>piles of garbage (including dangerous plastic and nuclear and chemical waste), </li>
<li>pollution of water, earth, and air, </li>
<li>shortage of drinkable water, </li>
<li>problems with crops and thus a shortage of food</li>
<li>global warming - and consequent changes in weather patterns and activities that will lead to a destruction of large area of current habitat,</li>
<li>the destruction of many species (some of which are crucial to the survival of humans), </li>
<li>the destruction of the whole ecosystem - including us.</li>
</ul>
<div>
Please also watch the following:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
* Severn Suzuki's speech at the UN</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1I6ljzaY9k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1I6ljzaY9k</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
* The Destruction of our Planet</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FR3gEvXJs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FR3gEvXJs</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
* Article in National Georgraphic (2004):</div>
<div>
<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism.html</a> &</div>
<div>
<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism_2.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism_2.html</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
* The End of Consumerism</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-end-of-consumerism-our-way-of-life-is-not-viable-1863278.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/the-end-of-consumerism-our-way-of-life-is-not-viable-1863278.html</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
* Some Facts about the Current Situation:</div>
<div>
- <a href="http://randallbutisingh.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-destruction-of-planet-earth/">http://randallbutisingh.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-destruction-of-planet-earth/</a></div>
<div>
- <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/20-gut-wrenching-statistics-about-the-destruction-of-the-planet-and-those-living-upon-it.html">http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/20-gut-wrenching-statistics-about-the-destruction-of-the-planet-and-those-living-upon-it.html</a></div>
<div>
- <a href="http://www.350.org/sites/all/files/science-factsheet.pdf">http://www.350.org/sites/all/files/science-factsheet.pdf</a></div>
<div>
- <a href="http://www.occupyforanimals.org/meat-consumption-and-the-destruction-of-our-planet.html">http://www.occupyforanimals.org/meat-consumption-and-the-destruction-of-our-planet.html</a></div>
<div>
- <a href="http://earthreform.org/deforestation-a-major-threat-to-the-destruction-of-our-planet/">http://earthreform.org/deforestation-a-major-threat-to-the-destruction-of-our-planet/</a><br />
<br />
* Bill McKibben's Speech on Earth Day 2012:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3S4pilSQ-Y">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3S4pilSQ-Y</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
* If you think that a healthy environment should be a basic human right (just as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are basic human rights according to the American constitution), please check out David Suzuki's petition - and sign: </div>
<div>
<a href="http://action2.davidsuzuki.org/healthy_environment_petition">http://action2.davidsuzuki.org/healthy_environment_petition</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Thank you,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
gudrun</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-66551877140907776742013-02-17T15:15:00.001-08:002013-07-04T16:24:52.201-07:00Psychological Perspectives on the Individual - Part 1: Freud and his Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Freud is on of the most famous Psychologist and has shaped the Western view of the Self substantially. However, he, too, is a product of his culture and time - and his way of thinking makes only sense in that context.<br />
<br />
If you are not familiar with that context, please click on the following link:<br />
http://perspectives-on-the-individual.blogspot.ca/2012/09/19th-20th-century-europe-new-ideas.html<br />
<br />
Some of Freud's main ideas can be found in his <i>Civilization and Its Discontent.</i> Please read this famous essay collection carefully and feel free to comment on it.<br />
<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Please also have a look at the following videos about Freud:</h4>
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">! Introduction to Freud's Theory of Human Nature (in Comparison to Marx's Theory):</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1jOQ7RjJ0&feature=related">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1jOQ7RjJ0&feature=related</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">! Illustrated Introduction to Freud's Theory about the Id, Ego, and Superego</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkin1FhojCo&feature=related">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkin1FhojCo&feature=related</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">! Introduction to Freud's Theory of Dreams: 4 parts</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lig53eW2ptg&feature=related">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lig53eW2ptg&feature=related</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmgcUtup1A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmgcUtup1A</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJUjZpUYbE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TJUjZpUYbE</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L1lCyK5ek">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L1lCyK5ek</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Short Introduction to Freud and his Theories about Sexual Development:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_raJfYR5AY8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_raJfYR5AY8</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Open Yale University Introduction to Freud:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emS3ye3cVU&feature=relmfu">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7emS3ye3cVU&feature=relmfu</a></span><br />
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<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Extremely interesting also: Freud's contemporary, Carl Jung. You can get a basic idea of some of Jung's main ideas by watching the following videos:</h4>
<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Short into to his main ideas:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.isapzurich.com/index.php/lang-en/about-us/key-concepts.html">http://www.isapzurich.com/index.php/lang-en/about-us/key-concepts.html</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">! Documentary about his theories and work:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L1lCyK5ek">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L1lCyK5ek</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Short Clips about Jung's Ideas about Anima, Animus, and Archetypes:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjRQbJPULx4&feature=fvwrel">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjRQbJPULx4&feature=fvwrel</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN47s0mPfRU&feature=related">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN47s0mPfRU&feature=related</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoYFIoKs8M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoYFIoKs8M</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Talk by Jung:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O18WALGq4C0&feature=related">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O18WALGq4C0&feature=related</a></span><br />
<br />
About the Hero's Journey (based on Jung):<br />
<a href="http://www.psychoideology.com/The-Hero's-Journey.html">http://www.psychoideology.com/The-Hero's-Journey.html</a><br />
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div>
Feel free to post your thoughts about Freud and Jung below!</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Thank you,</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Gudrun</div>
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-89759433170997030722013-02-17T13:25:00.001-08:002013-02-17T13:26:21.435-08:00Literary Perspectives on the Individual - Part 1: Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear All,<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
What happens when individuals when they are put into a totalitarian political system in which ideology (in this case, the christian religion) is used to reduce women to their wombs? Please explore this question and other issues further in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel <i>The Handmaid's Tale.</i><br />
<div>
<i><br /></i></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Some material you might find useful in this context:</h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
* Definition of Dystopia (from: Read * Write * Think):</h4>
<div>
<a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf">http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson926/DefinitionCharacteristics.pdf</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
* Handmaid's Tale - movie version: </h4>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdFkF6vtLE&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dyoutube%2520handmaid%27s%2520tale%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D9%26ved%3D0CGIQFjAI%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D8VdFkF6vtLE%26ei%3DGtp8UKTqM8_SigL4zYCQAQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNHUFHe_e3DiNdhTVNTw59Ag01ueFQ%26sig2%3Dqyw4XTMQFimhQq_xgbcIbg&has_verified=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdFkF6vtLE&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dyoutube%2520handmaid%27s%2520tale%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D9%26ved%3D0CGIQFjAI%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D8VdFkF6vtLE%26ei%3DGtp8UKTqM8_SigL4zYCQAQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNHUFHe_e3DiNdhTVNTw59Ag01ueFQ%26sig2%3Dqyw4XTMQFimhQq_xgbcIbg&has_verified=1</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
* Selected Interviews with Margaret Atwood:</h4>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2pq3SiqHc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2pq3SiqHc</a></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_DknrnHT8&list=PL47889828BC8FC6BD">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC_DknrnHT8&list=PL47889828BC8FC6BD</a> &</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWuGRZkuUv4&list=PL47889828BC8FC6BD">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWuGRZkuUv4&list=PL47889828BC8FC6BD</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
* Selected Video Projects about the <i>Handmaid's Tale</i></h4>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHa0rWb8zA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEHa0rWb8zA</a></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgYZoBzLUcE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgYZoBzLUcE</a></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGYT7aX6bI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGYT7aX6bI</a></div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8_8zVEoJsM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8_8zVEoJsM</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Please also read Margaret Atwood's short literary essay, "The Female Body" in this context:</h4>
<div>
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~jonahw/AOE-SM10/Readings/Atwood-FemaleBody.pdf">http://www.stanford.edu/~jonahw/AOE-SM10/Readings/Atwood-FemaleBody.pdf</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
... as well as her poem "Spelling":</h4>
<div>
<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spelling/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spelling/</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
I hope you find the novel as well as the additional material interesting!</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Gudrun</div>
<div>
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Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-88335179014464869372013-02-16T23:12:00.000-08:002013-02-17T13:26:50.302-08:00Historical Perspectives on the Individual - Part 2: Comparisons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Not only the rights of the individual change over time but the very concept of individuality depends on the historical, social, economical, political, and cultural context.<br />
<br />
Please choose two texts from different times and try to read them as a comment on the concept of the individual. You can either choose fictional or non-fictional texts. Please focus both on differences and on similarities of the two historical perspectives.<br />
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Then find two more texts that are from the same two periods and cultures. Do they have exactly the same view on the individual as your first two texts? How would you interpret your discoveries?<br />
<br />
Please post your results as comment if you wish - and let us know which texts you have compared.<br />
<br />
Thank you,<br />
<br />
gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-89907230537250123342013-02-16T22:55:00.000-08:002013-02-17T13:27:32.737-08:00Cultural Perspectives on the Individual - Part 1: Reflections on Culture and Identity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi All,<br />
<br />
What is culture and what role does it play in shaping individual identity? Please reflect on this topic first on your own and then have a look at the following clips:<br />
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1)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOm2Z4mB7E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOm2Z4mB7E</a><br />
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2)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmJ-AhEGNQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmJ-AhEGNQ</a><br />
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3)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBeRNOxNBk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBeRNOxNBk</a><br />
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4)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3GG8PkSIe0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3GG8PkSIe0</a><br />
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5)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCLCAQJ6_A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCLCAQJ6_A</a><br />
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<br />
Comments welcome :)<br />
<br />
Thank you,<br />
<br />
gudrun<br />
<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-40099625081550704222013-01-18T15:32:00.001-08:002013-02-17T13:27:59.225-08:00Historical Perspectives on the Individual - Part 1: Elie Wiesel's Night<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Dear All,<br />
<br />
Another perspective - or lens - we can use to look at the individual is history. Of course, history, too, provides not one single view but a myriad of times, places, and perspectives.<br />
<br />
A particularly sad chapter in history has been looked at more often than many others - probably because it is a chapter whose cruelty is beyond comprehension for most "normal" individuals. The chapter of history I am talking about is the Holocaust.<br />
<br />
Elie Wiesel, one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, too, has tried to shed more light on this particularly dark chapter of human history.<br />
<br />
Please read Elie Wiesel's <i>Night</i> and think about the following questions:<br />
<br />
1) How does the historical experience of the author get transformed in(to) the book?<br />
2) How does the experience of the holocaust change the understanding of the concept of "self" of the protagonist?<br />
3) What can we, as individuals, learn from <i>Night</i>?<br />
<br />
Topics for for further discussion:<br />
<br />
1) The Individual and the State<br />
2) Politics and Personal Responsibility<br />
3) The Self and the Other<br />
4) Despair and Hope<br />
5) [Add Your Own Topic Suggestion]<br />
<br />
You can find some background information about <i>Night</i> - including some links to excellent interviews with Elie Wiesel - in the post of November 7th, 2012:<br />
<a href="http://perspectives-on-the-individual.blogspot.ca/2012/11/when-words-fail-elie-wiesels-night.html">http://perspectives-on-the-individual.blogspot.ca/2012/11/when-words-fail-elie-wiesels-night.html</a><br />
<br />
Thank you!<br />
<br />
gudrun<br />
<br /></div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-57288549779428461622013-01-18T15:07:00.000-08:002013-02-17T13:29:27.160-08:00Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual - Part 1: Western Philosophy, 1: Hegel & Marx<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The most obvious way to look at the concept of "the Individual" is, of course, from a philosophical perspective - or, more precisely, from a number of different philosophical perspectives.<br />
<br />
If you are not too familiar with what philosophy is and what it does, here a brief introduction:<br />
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<a href="http://onlinephilosophyclass.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/what-is-philosophy/">http://onlinephilosophyclass.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/what-is-philosophy/</a><br />
This clip is also available on youtube:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySS0bNeWZOg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySS0bNeWZOg</a><br />
<br />
<br />
Let's start our investigation of the individual through the eyes of philosophy by first looking at some of the most famous Western philosophers: Hegel and Marx - here mediated by Peter Singer:<br />
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1: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjnG1X510A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjnG1X510A</a><br />
2: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjXBr3RtKk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjXBr3RtKk</a><br />
3: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYX9UP55ISc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYX9UP55ISc</a><br />
4: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Eg_fLP-5U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Eg_fLP-5U</a><br />
5: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbwZw0wy_n0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbwZw0wy_n0</a><br />
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What concept of the individual do you think underlies Hegel's ideas? And how does this concept change in Marx? Please comment!<br />
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More philosophical perspectives will follow later.<br />
<br />
Thank you,<br />
<br />
Gudrun</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-9166971488112991292013-01-12T19:09:00.003-08:002013-01-12T19:09:47.570-08:00Welcome to a New Beginning!Dear All,<br />
<br />
Welcome to a new year, a new blog, and a new course!<br />
We will focus this term on philosophical, psychological, political, and literary perspectives on the individual. Please feel free to add comments and ideas - as well as links to useful texts, clips, and websites - any time you like!<br />
<br />
Since we will analyze several poems, novels, essays, and other texts during the next months, here a link to some "tools" that you might find helpful. Please click on Handout #3: "Tools for Textual Analysis": <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gudrundreher/9-research/teaching-material/1st-year-university-english-toolkit">https://sites.google.com/site/gudrundreher/9-research/teaching-material/1st-year-university-english-toolkit</a><br />
<br />
Thank you!<br />
<br />
GudrunGudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-79990628134404984932012-12-11T23:47:00.001-08:002012-12-11T23:47:33.619-08:00Reflections on the Individual - Your Topics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
No comments from me this time. This is YOUR space!</div>
Gudrunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11360514510815451577noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399512931845863156.post-49651372981875664342012-12-07T02:03:00.002-08:002012-12-07T02:11:36.368-08:00The Individual in Poetry and Prose<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Please choose some of the following texts and discuss their views of the self!</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Li
Bai, "Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178453">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178453</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Muhyiddin
Ibn al-Àrabi, "Tigris Song":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181320">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181320</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mewlana
Jalaluddin Rumi, "A Moment of Happiness":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-moment-of-happiness/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-moment-of-happiness/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mewlana
Jalaluddin Rumi, "All through Eternity":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-through-eternity/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-through-eternity/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mewlana
Jalaluddin Rumi, "A Stone I Died":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-stone-i-died/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-stone-i-died/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hafez,
"For Years my Heart Inquired":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181369">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181369</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hafez,
"Ode 44":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180838">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180838</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Kabir,
"I Won't Come":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241234">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241234</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Kabir,
"Plucking your Eyebrows":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241232">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241232</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Kabir,
"Chewing Slowly":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241230">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241230</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Kabir,
"His Death in Benares":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241228">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/241228</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Emily
Dickinson, "They Shut Me up in Prose":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182902">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182902</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Emily
Dickinson, "I Dwell in Possibility"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182904">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182904</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Mirza
Ghalib, "Ghazal":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ghazal-5/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ghazal-5/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Khalil
Gibran, "A Poet's Voice - 15":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-s-voice-xv/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-s-voice-xv/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Khalil
Gibran, "A Tear and a Smile":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-tear-and-a-smile-3/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-tear-and-a-smile-3/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rabindranath
Tagore, "Fruit-Gathering 55":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174933">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174933</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rabindranath
Tagore, "I Asked of Destiny":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1898">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1898</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Rabindranath
Tagore, "Sing the Song of the Moment":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1894">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1894</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">T.S.
Eliot, "The Four Quartets" (please focus on: "Burnt
Norton")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">text: <a href="https://www2.bc.edu/john-g-boylan/files/fourquartets.pdf">https://www2.bc.edu/john-g-boylan/files/fourquartets.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">audio
recording: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxquJf-5q_s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxquJf-5q_s</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">or: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8tQrG4ZSw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8tQrG4ZSw</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Chuang
Tzu, "Action and Non-Action":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176256">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176256</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Vinda
Karandikar, "The Wheel":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/180011">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/180011</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yehuda
Amichai, "The Amen Stone":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237658">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237658</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Pablo
Neruda, "Absence":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/absence-56/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/absence-56/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Maya
Angelou, "A Brave and Startling Truth":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-brave-and-startling-truth/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-brave-and-startling-truth/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Maya
Angelou, "Alone":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-6/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-6/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Benjamin
Zephaniah, "We Refugees":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-refugees/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-refugees/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taha
Muhammad Ali, "Exodus":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241016">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241016</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Taha
Muhammad Ali, "Meeting at an Airport":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bei
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180380">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180380</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Bei
Dao, "Moon Festival":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">B)
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Thich
Nhat Hanh, "The 14 Mindfulness Trainings":<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.browardlotussangha.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/the-fourteen-mindfulness-trainings.pdf">http://www.browardlotussangha.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/the-fourteen-mindfulness-trainings.pdf</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">or: <a href="http://www.deepriversangha.org/14_mindfulness_trainings.htm">http://www.deepriversangha.org/14_mindfulness_trainings.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Dogen,
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/common_html/zuimonki/02-14.html">http://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/common_html/zuimonki/02-14.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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