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Life & Meaning (2)
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Compassion and the Individual (Tenzin Gyatso)
"I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness...." (35)
"...it is also true that we all have an innate self-centeredness that inhibits our love for others" (37).
"True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason" (38)
Thought Experiment
Peter Singer: The Drowning Child
"The civil rights movement transformed society...because it was fundamentally rooted in a love ethic" (41). Love as the Practice of Freedom (bell hooks)
"The sixties Black Power movement shifted away from that love ethic...the new militancy of masculinist black power equated love with weakness...." (41).
1) What is the relationship between love and and a sense of community?
2) How does "service" relate to love and to community?
3) What is compassion and why is it empowering?
"A Novel About the History of Philosophy"
"Sophie remembered Granny saying something like...'I never realized how rich life was until now'...How tragic that most people had to get ill before they found what a gift it was to be alive."
Friday Book Group
- Informal
- Self-selected groups of 6
- Group decides the approach
- Process Observer
Setting the Scene
- First feature film produced, directed, written by and featuring Native Americans
- Coeur D'Alene Reservation (Idaho)
- 1976 & 1996
- Road Movie