Reading: Boss, ch. 11, Virtue Ethics, 385-406

Informal Writing:

391, #'s 2, 3

394, # 2

398, #'s 1, 3

406, #'s 1, 5, 6

Reading: Arthur, ch. 5

Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal, 127ff.

Bonnie Steinbock, Speciesism and the Idea of Equality, 137ff.

Reserve, Olin Library:

Loren Eiseley, "The Starthrower"

Informal Writing:

What connections do you see between

virtue ethics - including the virtue of compassion -

and

an environmental ethic

both theoretically - i.e., in the consequences of one or more virtue ethics -

and practically -e.g., in the experience of Loren Eiseley?