350 Words Use your own resources
Writing Assignment for Week of January 23
Due
Jan 29, 2023 11:55 PM
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Instructions
In the section on “Let the Stories be Stories” (pp. 78-81) Weston discusses two religious stories–the Story of Nuri Bey–a story from the Sufi religion: and the Story of Sodom and Gomorrah from the Bible. Weston’s point is that these religious stories are subtle and complex explorations of human behavior with no final answer. The stories are full of, as Weston puts it, “hidden and deeper meanings and symbolism.”
Your task, is to identify the interpretations Weston identifies and then defend one of the interpretations as being the best interpretation. (You must defend–you can get away with saying that it is “complicated,” “nuanced,” it such a deep story,” etc.). 350 to 750 words.
In “The Story of Nuri Bey,” Weston offers several possible interpretations
400 Words Use your own resources, because I do not have the book
Your writing assignment comes from Going Farther #3–Ethics in Extraordinary Times pp. 64-70. The key to this assignment is to assess if the author of the selection under consideration is guilty of using ethical short circuits. If she is, which ones is she guilty of using?
Your book author, Anthony Weston, touts how Rebecca Solnit forces us (that may be too strong) to look at the issue of climate change from the perspective that the world’s climate is changing rapidly because of human activity and that only extraordinary action can save us. Taking extraordinary action requires us to change our mindset and see an issue anew.
Solnit’s example of the person who descended the stairs during the 911 attacks, ignoring the calls to go back to the office from you which you came, is highlighted as knowing when to ignore the “usual” way of doing things, and use your imagination to find a new way of proceeding. That is, “sometimes the right thing to do in ordinary times is the wrong thing to do in extraordinary times.” In other words, extraordinary times calls for extraordinary measures.
Escaping “path dependency” i.e., keeping you nose to the ground because this is the way it has always done, is essential to seeing an issue afresh and finding new avenues of action. All well and good. The danger is that immediately upon seeing things anew you nose becomes stuck to the ground and you do not see what the new way of doing things may be hiding–that is, there are consequences, and perhaps very bad consequences that new way of looking at things brings about.
All of this narrative is to pose the following question: Climate change advocates tell us we are in the midst of an extraordinary time and the extraordinary measures must be taken, i.e., we must end our dependence on fossil fuels and quickly move to 100% renewable energy. It seems that renewable energy advocates have the same kind of blinders on that advocate of fossil fuels have on. If we are, indeed, in the midst of an extraordinary change in climate caused by human activity, Is the rush to renewable energy generation the correct extraordinary action required, or will such single mindedness ignore the dangers of taking such action?
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