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Asceticism

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(SEEKING, Hesse - Siddhartha) - lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. The samanas are aescetics, and when Siddhartha joins the samanas, he gives up all of his clothes and possessions and lives the most simple lifestyle he can. He eats only what he must to survive, for example.

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Asceticism

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Seeking/Hesse-Siddhartha

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Brahmins

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(SEEKING, Hesse - Siddhartha) - the class of religious scholars/leaders to which Brahmin is born into. He decides that it isn't enough for him though, so he chooses to leave it.

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Brahmins

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SEEKING, Hesse - Siddhartha

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Chorus of Theban Men

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(FIGHTING, Sophocles - Antigone) -Plays of the ancient Greek theatre always included a chorus that offered a variety of background and summary information to help the audience follow the performance. They commented on themes. In many of these plays, the chorus expressed to the audience what the main characters could not say, such as their hidden fears or secrets. The chorus often provided other characters with the insight they needed. In Antigone, the chorus finally convinces Creon to go save Antigone.

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Chorus of Theban Men

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FIGHTING, Sophocles - Antigone

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Civil Disobedience

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(FIGHTING, MLK, Jr. - Letter from a Birmingham Jail) - the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes, though not always, defined as being non-violent resistance. MLK advocated for civil disobedience during the Civil Rights movement

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Civil Disobedience

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FIGHTING, MLK, Jr. - Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Cleobus

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(THINKING, Herodotus - the History) - according to Solon, he is one of the second most blessed men. He was a prize winning athlete. He and his brother dragged a wagon quite a distance to ensure that their mother would be at the temple for a feast. They died after this, but were honored with a statue.

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Cleobus

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THINKING, Herodotus - the History

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Cyclone Tracy

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(OWNING - Painted Desert)- an Australian hurricane that flattened areas of the country. The aborigines viewed this as manifestation of the anger of the Rainbow serpent who was angry that the white settlers' influence had caused neglect of the land and rituals. Rover Thomas reacted by telling his family that he had been visited by a spirit who offered him a vision of a new ritual called the Krill Krill.

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Cyclone Tracy

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OWNING - Painted Desert

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Dorian Grey

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(EMBODYING - "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde) - the man in Basil's painting. He's beautifully exquisite, young man who has helped Basil's work reach a new level. He has allowed Basil to see the world differently. He puts everything into his painting of Dorian, and for that reason, he is afraid to exhibit the work. Grey completely dominates Basil's work and really even his life at the point of the story. Grey is a narcissist, meaning that he is vain and sincerely admires his physical appearance. He's in love with the way he looks in the painting, with his youth. He was devastated by the idea that one day he would grow old and ugly and the painting will always remain young.

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Dorian Grey

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EMBODYING - "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde

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Dreamings

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(OWNING, PAINTED DESERT)- an art exhibition with the work of Pijaju Peter Skipper in New York. Drew the largest crowd ever at the society where it was held. His show's success helped to change the way that Aborigines art was viewed.

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Dreamings

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OWNING, PAINTED DESERT

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Eudaimonia

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(THINKING, Gomes - Living for Goodness' Sake) - Aristotle uses the word "eudaimonia" to describe happiness, although it's not the same definition as ours. This is more nuanced and means "flourishing" or "well-being," or 'the good life: the complete good, that is, what is most good, most noble, most pleasant;" or "living well and doing well."

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Eudaimonia

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THINKING, Gomes - Living for Goodness' Sake

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Ferryman

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(SEEKING, Hess - Siddhartha) - Siddhartha's teacher and friend

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Ferryman

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SEEKING, Hess - Siddhartha

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Foreign city

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(CELEBRATING - Jeanette Winterson "Art Objects") - Winterson compares art to being in a foreign city. She says that art is foreign at first. It has its own customs and speaks its own language.

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Foreign city

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CELEBRATING - Jeanette Winterson "Art Objects"

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Grandmother Potts

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(SEEKING - "Drenched in Light") - Isie's grandmother who gets caught up in everyday stresses and doesn't seem to understand Isie's approach to the good life.

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Grandmother Potts

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SEEKING - "Drenched in Light"

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Hedonism

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(EMBODYING, The Picture of Dorian Grey) the aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for

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Hedonism

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EMBODYING, The Picture of Dorian Grey

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Hedonistic Treadmill

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(EMBODYING, The Picture of Dorian Grey) - People have been found in studies to achieve a "baseline happiness," sometimes called the hedonic treadmill, a pre-determined happiness set point that a person will return to throughout their lives. This set point is regardless of their personal income

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Hedonistic Treadmill

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(EMBODYING, The Picture of Dorian Grey)

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Herodotus

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(THINKING, Herodotus- The History) - Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484-425 BC). He has been called "The Father of History" (firstly conferred by Cicero), and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent, and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories—his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced—is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. Although some of his stories were fanciful, he claimed he was reporting only what had been told to him. Little is known of his personal history.

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Herodotus

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(THINKING, The History)

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Jack Ryan

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-(EMBODYING - "Our Barbie, Ourselves" (Prager) )- a former husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor who was an inventor and designer. One of his jobs as a consultant at Mattel was to design Barbie. According to the author of the essay, Emily Prager, this made sense. Only a man could have designed Barbie.

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Jack Ryan

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EMBODYING - "Our Barbie, Ourselves" (Prager)

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Just Laws

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(FIGHTING - MLK, Jr. - Letter from a Birmingham Jail) - laws that are equally applied to everyone and that make sense. Laws that MLK, Jr. says everyone should follow.

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Just Laws

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FIGHTING - MLK, Jr. - Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Karma

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destiny, fate

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Karma

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SEEKING, Hesse - Siddhartha

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kitchenism

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(CONSTRUCTING - Jenks - "Architecture of Hope) - The centers make food and drink a central part - its generic space; small intense group rooms for therapy sessions and relaxation, tai chi, etc.; private spaces; gardens, etc. The primary role is informality, which he has termed "kitchenism."

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kitchenism

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CONSTRUCTING - Jenks - "Architecture of Hope

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Kreon

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(FIGHTING, Sophocles - Antigone) - King of Thebes who decrees that anyone who tries to bury Polynieces will die. This is his nephew, and his niece is caught burying him. He does what he thinks is his version of fighting for the good life - defending Thebes' honor, but it costs him the lives of several people he loves dearly.

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Kreon

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FIGHTING, Sophocles - Antigone

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Land ethic

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(SUSTAINING - Leopold "Land Ethic) - this is the idea that you have an ethical/moral responsibility to take care of the earth and see it as part of your community. We can't just exploit it economically.

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Land ethic

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SUSTAINING - Leopold "Land Ethic

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Loggia

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(CONSTRUCTING - lecture on hospital architecture) - this is the style where there are columns in front of a building with rounded entry ways. This was an early hospital design.

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Loggia

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CONSTRUCTING - lecture on hospital architecture

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Om

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(SEEKING - Hesse - Siddhartha) - means "the perfect" or "the completion;" first and last word of the Brahmin prayer. It's a sacred sound that he heard come from the river as he was ready to jump in and end his life after leaving Kamala and the elaborate lifestyle he adopted when he was a merchant. This is what saves his life

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Om

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SEEKING - Hesse - Siddhartha

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Original position

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(GOVERNING - Rawls) - this is a think exercise in which people are behind a veil of ignorance, and thus don't know where in society they stand. They are then to choose the best justice system. In this exercise, people will chose the system that's most fair to everyone.

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Original position

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GOVERNING - Rawls

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Overuses

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(THINKING, Roots of Ayurveda) - this is one of the three causes of disease. This is the overuse of any sense (looking at something that's too bright/dark/etc.). This is seen as part of losing balance, which is what the culture strives for.

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Overuses

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THINKING, Roots of Ayurveda

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Prince Arjuna

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(PERPETUATING - Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War) - a warrior who is faced with the predicament that he is a professional soldier, but he has to fight against people that he loves. Krishna gives him counsel and says that he cannot be weak. He has to be prepared to fight. Sanjaya's moral predicament is tough. He doesn't know how he will live if he kills these people, but he doesn't want to be killed either. He sees it as a lose-lose situation. He says that he will not fight. Krishna says that there is a difference between a person and the physical body, so that the person will never be killed. Birth and death are recurring. He says, "Death is certain for anyone born, and birth is certain for the dead; since the cycle is inevitable, you have no cause to grieve." He reminds him that it is his duty, as a warrior, to go to battle, and he cannot abandon it. The shame of night fighting would be worse than death. He stresses the importance of discipline and the denunciation of all desires so that he can find peace.

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Prince Arjuna

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(PERPETUATING - Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War)

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Meritocratic system

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(GOVERNING, Rawls/Sandel - lecture about Original Position) - this is a system whereby you're rewarded for what you have.

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Meritocratic system

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GOVERNING, Rawls/Sandel - lecture about Original Position

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Ngurrrara I and II

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(OWNING, Painted Desert) - these are the names of the two paintings the Aborigines painted of their connection to the land. They had neither the language skills nor proof of ownership, but they had been living there for years and decades. They used these in court. One was sold for over $200,000. They had no how much it would be worth.

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Ngurrrara I and II

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(OWNING, Painted Desert)

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North American Buckskin Map

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(OWNING, North American Buckskin Map radio program) - This buckskin map depicts a vast area of the American Midwest between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. It was probably drawn by Piankshaw Indians and the red circles and semi-circles represent Native American settlement Native American maps are conceptual different than those of European settlers, containing more symbolic elements and reflecting different notions of space and time. Rivers were vitally important to Native Americans and the Wabash River runs along the spine of the deerskin, following the animal's life force. Written phrases, like 'Piankashaw sold', on the lower right hand side of the map, suggest it was used as an intermediary tool to communicate between Europeans and Native Americans. It was probably created to aid negotiations during an attempt by the Wabash Land Company to purchase territory from the Piankashaw Indians in 1774 - 5. As European trappers and traders expanded west, private companies sought to purchase land from Native American nations. Such negotiations ignored the existing treaties with Native American people and this sale of land was declared void by the British colonial government.

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North American Buckskin Map

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OWNING, North American Buckskin Map radio program

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Return and Ritual

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(PERPETUATING, EB White - Once More at the Lake) - the theme of return and ritual comes up repeatedly in this short story, as the storyteller was at the same lake doing many of the same things with his kids as he did as a child himself.

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Return and Ritual

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PERPETUATING, EB White - Once More at the Lake

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Roger Fry

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(- CELEBRATING - lecture) - an English artist and art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and emphasized the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content.

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Roger Fry

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(CELEBRATING - lecture)

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The Sabbath

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(CELEBRATING, A Palace in Time, Heschel) - the day of rest that God took after he was done creating the world, and also the 7th day of the week that Jews take off from their regular work routine. They rest of the Sabbath, and that rest, known as menuha, is seen as the essence of the good life.

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The Sabbath

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CELEBRATING, A Palace in Time, Heschel

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Solon

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(THINKING - Herodotus, the History) - solon is the great, wise man from Athens who Creosus tries to impress. He asks Solon who is the most blessed man, and Solon responds that the most blessed man is the one who can look back on his life and assess it as having been blessed or good.

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Solon -

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THINKING - Herodotus, the History

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The Greenbelt Movement International

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(SUSTAINING, lecture) - founded by Dr. Wangari Maathai, who was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. They work to conserve the land in African countries.

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The Greenbelt Movement International

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(SUSTAINING, lecture)

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The Maggie's Centres

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(CONSTRUCTING, Jenks "Architecture of Hope") - these are the centers that Jenks and his wife came up with when she was being treated for cancer and couldn't deal with the sterile hospital like atmosphere. These centers focused on informal space for group meetings, reflection, gardens, classes, and self-help education. The aim of the centers is to transform the questions "how long have I got" or "will I live" to the "will to live or live better"

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The Maggie's Centres

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(CONSTRUCTING, Jenks "Architecture of Hope")

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Transcendentalism

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(QUESTIONING, Thoreau, Walden) - a religious and philosophical movement that was developed during the late 1820s and 1830s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of culture and society. Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. People were inherently good. They had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community could be formed; Thoreau was a transcendentalist, which comes across in his work Walden

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Transcendentalism

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QUESTIONING, Thoreau, Walden

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Trickster

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(SEEKING - Hurston - "Drenched in Light") - By definition, tricksters are animals or characters who, while ostensibly disadvantaged and weak in a contest of wills, power, and/or resources, succeed in getting the best of their larger, more powerful adversaries. Tricksters achieve their objectives through indirection and mask-wearing, through playing upon the gullibility of their opponents. In other words, tricksters succeed by outsmarting or outthinking their opponents. In executing their actions, they give no thought to right or wrong; indeed, they are amoral. Mostly, they are pictured in contest or quest situations, and they must use their wits to get out of trouble or bring about a particular result. "Drenched in Light" is a trickster Tale. Isie Watts is always getting into trouble, but she's able to get out of trouble in the end by tricking her grandmother who is heavily disciplined. Her survival skills are like Brer Rabbit's.

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Trickster

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SEEKING - Hurston - "Drenched in Light"

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Unjust laws

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(FIGHTING, MLK, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail) - according to MLK, Jr. unjust laws are those that are unevenly enforced against a population by a part of the population that wouldn't want it. They're unnatural. Unjust laws are meant to be broken.

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Unjust laws

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FIGHTING, MLK, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Utilitarianism

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(LECTURE - governing - Sandel's video on Rawls) - Maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Rawls says they wouldn't chose utilitarianism because once the veil goes up and real life begins, we will each want to be respected with dignity. We would want to choose as our first principle basic human rights and equality. We wouldn't want to take the chance that we're a despised minority with the majority tyrannizing over us. Utilitarianism makes the mistake of forgetting that there are distinctions between people. We wouldn't trade our fundamental rights for economic advantages.

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Utilitarianism

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LECTURE - governing - Sandel's video on Rawls

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Veil of ignorance

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(GOVERNING, Original Position, Rawls) - this is a device that can help a person determine whether something is moral. Rawls said that you can only determine how fair something is using this veil because it doesn't allow you to see what your actual position in society is, so you're not influenced by it.

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Veil of ignorance

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(GOVERNING, Original Position, Rawls)

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Thinking

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Sung - Five Fold Happiness Wujastyk - Roots of Ayurveda Herodotus - The History Machen - All that and More Kupperman - "Myth One: Pursuing Comfort and Pleasure will Lead to the Best Possible Life" Gomes - Living for Goodness' Sake

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Sung

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Five Fold Happiness

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Wujastyk

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Roots of Ayurveda

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Herodotus

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The History

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Machen

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All that and More

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Kupperman

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"Myth One: Pursuing Comfort and Pleasure will Lead to the Best Possible Life"

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Gomes

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Living for Goodness' Sake

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Seeking

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Hesse - Siddhartha Hurston - "Drenched in Light" Haskins - poems from "Forty-four Ambitions for the Piano"

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Hesse

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Siddhartha

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Hurston

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"Drenched in Light"

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Haskins

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poems from "Forty-four Ambitions for the Piano"

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Embodying

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Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Prager - "Our Barbies, Ourselves" Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Skloot

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Prager

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"Our Barbies, Ourselves"

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Wilde

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Sharing

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Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Song of Songs

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Celebrating

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Smith and Burrichter - Multimedia lecture Bernstein in Vienna Bernstein's video of "Ode to Joy" Heschel - "A Palace in Time" Winterson - "Art Objects"

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Smith and Burrichter

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Multimedia lecture

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Heschel

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"A Palace in Time"

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Winterson

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"Art Objects"

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Governing

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Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen Freeman - The Original Position

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Freeman

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The Original Position

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Fighting

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Pagan - multimedia lecture on Antigone Sophocles - Antigone Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" WoHaw between two worlds Head - "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses"

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Pagan

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multimedia lecture on Antigone

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Sophocles

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Antigone

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Martin Luther King, Jr. -Martin Luther King, Jr. -

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"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

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Head

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"The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses"

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Owning

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Brooks - Painted Desert BBC Radio - North American Buckskin Map

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Constructing

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Carr - Multimedia lecture Jencks - Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centers

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Brooks

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Painted Desert

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BBC Radio

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North American Buckskin Map

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Carr

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Multimedia lecture

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Jencks

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Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centers

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Sustaining

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Leopold - The Land Ethic Maathai - Unbowed

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Leopold

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The Land Ethic

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Maathai

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Unbowed

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Questioning

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Thoreau - Walden Clendinen - "The Good Short Life" Twain - "Extracts from the Diaries of Adam and Eve"

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Thoreau

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Walden

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Clendinen

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"The Good Short Life"

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Twain

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"Extracts from the Diaries of Adam and Eve"

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Perpetuating

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The Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's Council in Times of War White - "Once More to the Lake" Hess - "Songs to Survive the Summer"

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White

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"Once More to the Lake"

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Hess

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"Songs to Survive the Summer"

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