Love and Animals (Heavily based on The Bell paper)
December 20th, 2022
Readings: (FILES ARE UPLOADED)
Chapter 3, A General Theory of Love
Bell, M. “Grizzly Man, Sentimentality and Our Relationships with Other Animals” (available in Additional materials)
Chapter 3, A General Theory of Love
Bell, M. “Grizzly Man, Sentimentality and Our Relationships with Other Animals” (available in Additional materials)
****Note: The Bell paper is long and challenging. Make sure to set aside a good amount of time to read it. ***You will need to demonstrate a strong grasp of the Bell paper to get a good grade on this assignment.***
ESSAY INSTRUCTION: Write an essay where you explain your point of view on human relationships with other animals. Be sure to explain whether it is possible for humans to have “genuine” relationships with other animals and what that means for how we ought to treat other animals. Your essay must make use of some of the ideas about sentimentality in the above paper as well as things you learned from Chapter 3.
Minimum length 500 words.