William Wordsworth, Immortality Ode

[@stephenenglish5234]

For me ,this is what KZbin is all about .

[@LitProf]

Thanks!

[@WhoIsSheAnyway]

Thank you, Professor! This was enlightening. I'm so grateful to be able to attend such brilliant lectures online. Keep up the good work!

[@cece8425]

This was so interesting and helpful to watch, thankyou!

[@nahidanowshin735]

I just wanted it😍😍

[@eduardodifarnecio2336]

Couldn’t hear the student’s question very well but a wonderful and instructive lecture. Thank you. Subscribed.

[@LitProf]

Glad it was helpful!

[@petrichor20]

Searched alot....found at last ....great thing

[@lilythomas-milne9685]

Exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you for such a well-rounded analysis of the poem :)

[@LitProf]

You are very welcome!

[@LitProf]

You're very welcome! I'll be adding more this coming academic year.

[@susug]

Wow this is so informative. I am so glad I clicked on this video.

[@LitProf]

Glad it was helpful!

[@berry8826]

I'm really glad I came across this video here. It was an amazing lesson, lecture, conversation, I don't know it was an amazing one hour and thirteen minutes. Thanks for that. It was so informative and usefull. I wished that I could be your student the whole time I was watching this video.

[@LitProf]

Very kind of you to say.

[@shreyajaiswal2374]

Thank you! It was of great help! Could you please upload a lecture on Wordsworth Prelude too?

[@LitProf]

Sadly I won't be teaching on the Prelude for a while.

[@LitProf]

Lectures on the Prelude are up now.

[@garethinkster]

I don't follow the logic which suggests that extending human rights to animals reduces us to animals. Obviously we can't extend "human" rights as such to non human beings, but even still, how would attempting to do so "reduce" us to animals?

[@LitProf]

Removing the special status of human beings in law, which is an (unintended) consequence of extending human rights to animals, (or AI) does not lift the animals up (no animal is going to realize its rights), but it will remove the moral responsibility of human agents. This does no one any good, let alone the animals.

[@garethinkster]

@@LitProf I suppose I would ask if an animal needs to "realize its rights" in order for it to be dignified/recognized as a co-creature, sacred in its very living. Is it not more obvious that humanity's exceptionality is precisely what lays the moral responsibilty on us to care for animals and extend rights to them? I'm familiar with a few fascinating court cases which have ruled in animals' favour on humanitarian grounds. They've only ever seemed like beacons of human morality is capable of.