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===Some proverbs===
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==11: OCT 6==
  
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:*Live simply that others may simply live.
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:*Measure twice cut once.
 
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:*All work, no play makes jack a dull boy.
 
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:*Cleanliness is next to godliness.
 
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:*Don't shit where you eat.
 
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:*If at first you don't succeed,. . .
 
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:*Pride goeth before a fall
 
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:*A friend in need is a friend indeed
 
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:*Talk is cheap
 
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===Proverbs: Table of Contents and brief notes===
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:*Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
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:*Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?
  
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:*1. 1.1-9.18: 3rd-4th bc, discourses of admonition and warning; 2 poems personifying wisdom (1.20-33 and 8.1-36); allegory of Wisdom and Folly 9.1-6, 13-18)
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===Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery===
  
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:*2. 10.2-22.16 Proverbs of Solomon (not authorship, but designates form - parallelisms and content - virtues/vices)
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:*Please take the following anonymous [https://gonzaga.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3I98g1ecsTe59ZP survey].
  
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:*3. 22.17-24.22 Egyptian - "Instructions of Amen-em-ope"
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===Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment===
  
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:*4. 25.1 - 29.27 - Proverbs of Solomon
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:*'''Stage 4''': Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgKCYITDTSOOHcvC3TAVNK-EZDsP4jiiyPj-7jdpRoNUsLPA/viewform?usp=sf_link].  '''Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino.'''  Up to 10 points, in Points.
  
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::*Appendices:  
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::*Back evaluations are due '''Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm'''.
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:::*24.23-34
 
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:::*30.1-9  - dialogue between a sceptic and believer
 
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:::*30.10-33 - admonition and proverbs - "progressive and numeric"
 
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:::*31.1-9 - queen  mother's advice to young king
 
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:::*31.10-31 - ideal wife of prominent man.
 
  
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===Proverbs===
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===Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"===
  
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:*p. 25: "Who Am I?" task.  Show charts
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:*p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
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:*p. 34: guilt vs. shame
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:*p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely). 
  
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:*1. 1.1-9.18:  Divides, rhetorically at Book 10.  First 10 books seem like instruction (Estes).  Note misogyny.  Women are temptresses.  But note also that this section begins and ends with Wisdom personified in a female voice.
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===Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"===
  
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:*Look at Proverb form:  from Estes:  contrast, enigmatic, compresses, pithy, uses analogy, understood to be generalizations.
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====WEIRD Morality====
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::*analogies and similes: 26:7ff    (also literary convention in Illiad)
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:*WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
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::*my favorite: 26:11 "As a dog turneth again to his own vomit, so a fool turneth to his foolishness."
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::*just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
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::*only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
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::*"the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships"  "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist. 
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::*survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
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::*framed-line task 97
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:*Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist.  Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture.
  
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:*Themes
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====A 3 channel moral matrix====
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::*Wise lead orderly lives in fear of the Lord and they prosper because of it.
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:*Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
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::*Attitude of the wise is consistent and cheerful, even in the face of poverty. 15:15-17, also 19:1
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::*claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
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::*Contentment
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::*ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
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::*Decisions
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::*vertical dimension to values.  explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons.  (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)
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::*Diligence
 
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::*Friendships
 
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::*Generosity
 
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::*Humility
 
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::*Kindness
 
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::*Parenting
 
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::*Purity
 
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::*Truthfulness
 
  
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:*Proverbs offer integration of behavioral norms we should hold ourselves to with a vertical and transcendent moral order.
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====Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference====
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:*'''Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience''': diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work.  Stop and think about how a mind might create this.  Detail about airline passenger.
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:*Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
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:*American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy).  Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
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:*'''Stepping out of the Matrix''':  H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right.  Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view.  Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.  
  
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:*Could we write proverbs for our time?
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===Small Group Discussion===
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===Job===
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::*Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing?  What value might it have in your experience?
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::*Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)
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'''Big Questions / Themes in Job'''
 
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:*Our question of Job: Why do the righteous suffer? 
 
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:*Alternate frame for question: why is there contingency? why isn't the covenant a biconditional?  
 
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:*Is there a cosmic justice and order or should the wise be prepared for a fundamentally unjust cosmos?  (cf. Stoic faith)
 
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:*If there were cosmic justice, would you understand it?
 
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:*How should we approach suffering?   
 
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:*(Problem of Job's visitors: What attitude to take to someone suffering if you suspect they are at fault?
 
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:*Anthropological wisdom reading of Job: Beginning of awareness of our nature as subjective; gap between ours and divine consciousness due to our nature.  Develops in Christian practice as overcoming gap between subjects through love (agape). (So we might experience the gap between Job and God as beta of agape.)
 
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::*Opening scene:
 
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::*Eliphaz: not direct accusation, but cosmic reminder: No mortal is justified before God.  Lower yourself.
 
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::*Job's observations on life and "candor": 7:1-16
 
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::*Bildad the Shuhite: come on. can't imply God doesn't notice.  Maybe it's something your kids did?
 
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::*Job's reply (really to Eliphaz): can't judge God, but that means he's remote.  There's no go-between, mediator. (Problem is Job isn't supplicating, he's kind of willing to acknowledge that he's alone, can't understand what's happening to him, and wants to die.
 
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::*Zophar: finally makes the accusation.  You must have done something really really bad, Job.
 
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::*Job's reply: still defiant, but open to hearing from God, if he gets a minute to tell him where he messed up.  his iniquities.
 
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::*cycles of speech and reply from Bildad, Zophar, Job increasingly aware of his isolation, lower than human in his friends eyes, and by the way: the wicked go unpunished all the time, Job offers more detailed accounting of his life, but still affirms a clear conscience.
 
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::*Elihu (Book 32, a later addition)
 
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::*Book 38: God answers Job out of the whirlwind: summary.
 
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:*What is the meaning of God's approval of Job's conduct and his disapproval of the friends?
 

Latest revision as of 19:51, 6 October 2020

11: OCT 6

Assigned

  • Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality" (17)
  • Writing exercise: How WEIRD is Morality?

Brief Survey on Student Engagement in Hybrid course delivery

  • Please take the following anonymous survey.

Final Stage of Sapolsky Writing Assignment

  • Stage 4: Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [1]. Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino. Up to 10 points, in Points.
  • Back evaluations are due Thursday, October 8, 11:59pm.

Some samples from Henrich's, "The Weirdest People on Earth"

  • p. 25: "Who Am I?" task. Show charts
  • p. 28: sociocentric vs. individualistic
  • p. 34: guilt vs. shame
  • p. 44: impersonal honesty research (recall Ariely).

Haidt, Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"

WEIRD Morality

  • WEIRD morality is the morality of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic cultures
  • just as likely to be bothered by taboo violations, but more likely to set aside feelings of disgust and allow violations
  • only group with majority allowing chicken story violation.
  • "the weirder you are the more likely you are to see the world in terms of separate objects, rather than relationships" "sociocentric" moralities vs. individualistic moralities; Enlightenment moralities of Kant and Mill are rationalist, individualist, and universalist.
  • survey data on East/West differences in sentence completion: "I am..."
  • framed-line task 97
  • Kantian and Millian ethical thought is rationalist, rule based, and universalist. Just the ethical theory you would expect from the culture.

A 3 channel moral matrix

  • Schweder's anthropology: ethics of autonomy, community, divinity 99-100 - gloss each...
  • claims Schweder's theory predicts responses on taboo violation tests, is descriptively accurate.
  • ethic of divinity: body as temple vs. playground
  • vertical dimension to values. explains reactions to flag desecration, piss Christ, thought exp: desecration of liberal icons. (Note connection to contemporary conflicts, such as the Charlie Hebdot massacre.)

Making Sense of Moral/Cultural Difference

  • Haidt's Bhubaneswar experience: diverse (intense) continua of moral values related to purity. (opposite of disgust). Confusing at first, but notice that he started to like his hosts (elephant) and then started to think about how their values might work. Stop and think about how a mind might create this. Detail about airline passenger.
  • Theorizing with Paul Rozin on the right model for thinking about moral foundations: "Our theory, in brief" (103)
  • American politics often about sense of "sacrilege", not just about defining rights (autonomy). Not just harm, but types of moral disgust.
  • Stepping out of the Matrix: H's metaphor for seeing his own cultural moral values as more "contingent" than before, when it felt like the natural advocacy of what seem true and right. Reports growing self awareness of liberal orientation of intellectual culture in relation to Shweder's view. Social conservatives made more sense to him after studying in India.

Small Group Discussion

  • Discussion questions:
  • Does it make sense to talk about "stepping out of a matrix"? Is this a temporary thing? What value might it have in your experience?
  • Do you have a parallel story to Haidt's? (Mention travel experiences.)
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