INTRODUCTIONS
- what is your favorite kind of animal encounter?
- e.g. interacting with your cat, spotting an animal in the wild, riding a horse, being at the zoo, etc.
ABRIDGED SYLLABUS
WHAT IS THIS CLASS ABOUT?
- What attitudes DO we have toward animals? How DO we treat them?
- What attitudes SHOULD we have toward animals? How SHOULD we treat them?
THE PLAN: 5 MODULES
- The moral status of animals--from Aristotle to the present
- Animal minds, animal deaths--questions relevant to ethics
- Animals and society--where animals should live and how
- Using animals--are any uses defensible?
- Animals in the wild--should we try to make their lives better?
ARE WE CONFUSED ABOUT ANIMALS?
SOME WE LOVE AND EAT
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| Puffin video |
WESTMAN ISLANDS: LOVING PUFFINS
GRIMSEY ISLAND: EATING PUFFINS
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| Hunting article the lundaveiðar tradition |
LOVING AND EATING PUFFINS
- the hunters on Grimsey are from the Westman Islands
- they bring the puffins back for a summer feast (Thjóðhátíð)
- so the same people save and eat puffins
LOVING AND EATING: OTHER CASES?
- Examples closer to home
- What should we think?
- A. Contradictory, conflicted, confused, compartmentalized, weird
- B. No, it makes perfectly good sense to both love and eat
NEXT TIME
- Aristotle
- passages from Bible
- What would they say about the Icelanders love/eat relationship with puffins?
DOING YOUR FIRST RR