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New Yorker: Wild Animals Don't Want to be Owned

New Yorker: Wild Animals Don't Want to be Owned:

The news earlier this month about Terry Thompson's ill-fated decision to release the exotic, wild, and in many cases dangerous animals he had acquired — and then to kill himself — crossed my path in the same way as it did for so many others:  brief reports without much detail, announcing that among others, Lions and Bengal Tigers had been released near, and were now roaming into, an Ohio town.  Then more substantive follow-up reports and...

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I like it, and have started following it — been so busy lately that I haven't had much time to read more than a little, but I am looking forward to roaming through it later this semester

Virtues and Supplemental Instruction

Virtues and Supplemental Instruction:

A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to carry out what I sometimes jokingly refer to as "Virtue Ethics evangelism."  I'd been invited to submit a workshop proposal for a one-day conference held down at City University of New York (CUNY)-Lehman, focused specifically on Supplemental Instruction, bringing together educators from many different disciplines and schools, mainly from across the CUNY system schools but including a scattering of others from...

Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, and Politics of Anger

Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, and Politics of Anger:

A lot has been written and said recently comparing the two mass political movements essentially based in the politics of anger — Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.  In fact, so much is currently out there that practically any site I could arbitrarily select to link to here would fit the bill — so long as it mentions the two movements in some comparative manner.

James Sinclair, in Occupy Wall Street vs The Tea Party (where he also...

A New Virtue Ethics Blog

One reason I've been unmistakably lax over the last month in meeting my self-imposed obligations to timely and consistent posting on this blog stems from what might be regarded as a species of inconstancy. It's fortunate that blogs cannot exhibit or feel jealousy, or else I might have problems on my hands in addition to those involved in skillful time-management -- or juggling the consequences of its lack thereof.   For, I must admit that another blog has been absorbing much of the energies a...

HBR: The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People

HBR: The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People:

Tony Schwartz, among other things a blogger on Harvard Business Review, recently offered advice about a common issue both in the workplace and in one's non-work life: the need to deal with difficult people, those who fit this description:

Do you have someone at work who consistently triggers you? Doesn't listen? Takes credit for work you've done? Wastes your time with trivial issues? Acts like a know-it-all? Can only talk about himself?...

Time, Technology, and Teaching

Given the length of time I've allowed to lapse since my last posting here on Orexis Dianoētikē, before taking up the threads anew of previous musings, conversations, discussions and diatribes, I ought perhaps to say a bit about what I've been up to, and introduce yet another topic to the mix, one bearing on and bearing out a shape of practical rationality.  My starting and anchor point is a Tenured Radical (Claire Potter) post,

Forbes: Happiest vs. Most Hated Jobs: Is Bureaucracy a Bad Thing?

Forbes: Happiest vs. Most Hated Jobs: Is Bureaucracy a Bad Thing?:

Teach an Ethics class, and ask students early on what they consider to be major goods in their present or anticipated future life — what will make them happy, what they deeply desire and value —and in addition to family and friends, money, and occasionally education, they will often tell you: career, work, the job for which they are training.  And yet, what makes for the likelihood that one's profession will realistically...

Big Think: Chess Life, or Why Getting Beaten Can Be Good

Big Think: Chess Life, or Why Getting Beaten Can Be Good:

In a recent interview with the Big Think, chess-player Maurice Ashley, celebrated as the first African-American grandmaster, briefly narrates his development in the game of chess, from novice to master.  His recollections and reflections are interesting from a Virtue Ethics perspective for several reasons.

The game of Chess is in fact one the very practices examined by contemporary virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre in his seminal book ...

Junk Food is Not Really Cheaper, But Habits Cost You

Junk Food is Not Really Cheaper, But Habits Cost You:

A piece in the NYT Sunday Review, Is Junk Food Really Cheaper, provoked some interesting discussion among my culinary friends, many of whom are almost evangelistically committed to food awareness and to reduction of obesity and other food-related illnesses in America.

It's often taken for granted that junk food is in fact cheaper than healthy home-cooked food.  Those who are content with eating it — or with others feeding on the wide array ...