who was eqality 's girlfrind?
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whats really hood
What does equality 7-2521 means when he says the power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding?
The Creation
He has created it, he brought it forth from the night of the ages, he alone. what does that mean?
The Philosophy of the Writer of ANTHEM
On this picture, you see Pythagoras, the first philosopher.....
Ayn Rand, the author of our book ANTHEM, believed in a special philosophy called OBJECTIVISM.
She believed that facts and values were "objective" realities. A thinking person can only grasp them through reason. According to Rand, what you perceive is true if logic says so. Actions are ethical if they fulfill your needs as a thinking being.
Reason is the only basis for intellectual and moral judgments.
Ayn Rand did not believe in faith, and subjective feelings.
She believed that individual life formed the standard of all values, and "rational selfishness" was a person's appropriate motive.
In addition, Rand thought that capitalism was the only truly moral economic system.
Task 1: What do you think about her philosophy? Do you think that "reason" is everything? Do you think that "rational selfishness" is good for people? Do you have "faith"? Would you agree with her OBJECTIVISM, or would you be against it?
Task 2: Ayn Rand grew up in communist Russia. She liked capitalism, which is typical of America and the Western world. What do you think about capitalism?
Ayn Rand, the author of our book ANTHEM, believed in a special philosophy called OBJECTIVISM.
She believed that facts and values were "objective" realities. A thinking person can only grasp them through reason. According to Rand, what you perceive is true if logic says so. Actions are ethical if they fulfill your needs as a thinking being.
Reason is the only basis for intellectual and moral judgments.
Ayn Rand did not believe in faith, and subjective feelings.
She believed that individual life formed the standard of all values, and "rational selfishness" was a person's appropriate motive.
In addition, Rand thought that capitalism was the only truly moral economic system.
Task 1: What do you think about her philosophy? Do you think that "reason" is everything? Do you think that "rational selfishness" is good for people? Do you have "faith"? Would you agree with her OBJECTIVISM, or would you be against it?
Task 2: Ayn Rand grew up in communist Russia. She liked capitalism, which is typical of America and the Western world. What do you think about capitalism?
Happiness and the American Dream
Look in your book on page 95. Equality says:"... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
Task 1: What do you think, what does he mean by this?
Do you remember what the "American Dream" is? Have you heard the term "the pursuit of happiness" before? Task 2: Try to explain this term.
Task 3: What is your personal "American Dream"?
How will the book end?
We haven't read the last chapter yet. What do you think, how will the story end? (If you've read it already, you can say what really happens. Otherwise, invent it!)We left off where Equality and the Golden One have found the house. What will their future look like? Will they be found by the society that believes in the great WE? What will they do? Will they find the secret word "I," and how?
Write a short paragraph.
Communism and Agriculture in East Germany...
Before the Berlin Wall came down, East Germany was very much like Russia. This is because after having lost the Second World War, West Germany was ruled by America, France, and England, and East Germany was ruled by Russia. Russia was Communist. Its agrarian system consisted of a community where all farmers owned all the machines, and all the gains from the harvest. A single farmer didn't own anything.In East Germany, such agrarian communities were called LPG's (Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaften). You see one on the picture. All people worked for the good for all people. No single farmer could get rich.
Imagine you lived in East Germany or Russia at that time, and you were convinced that communism and LPG's are a good thing. What could have been good about everybody owning everything together? Write down a couple of reasons.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Ayn Rand, the author of ANTHEM
Read the link on the black site that says "Biography of Ayn Rand."
What do you know about the life of Ayn Rand? Write what you remember about her. Where did she come from, what was her career like?
What do you know about the life of Ayn Rand? Write what you remember about her. Where did she come from, what was her career like?
What is in the mansion?
Equality and the Golden One have escaped into the Uncharted Forest. Suddenly, they find a big mansion which is left over from the Unmentionable Times. Now, they don't need to sleep outside any more. What do they find inside the house? Talk about things and technology they see in there that don't exist in their own society. What are they surprised at? What do they try out? Remember, their own society has just invented the candle. What is in the house that is strange to them?In the Uncharted Forest
You have fled from the bad society and are in the Uncharted Forest. What would you do to survive?Futuristic Society and Your Great Invention
Imagine you live in a bad futuristic society (a dystopia). You have made a great invention - you can choose what it is. Nobody else knows about it yet. The society believes in the great WE, which means that one person is nothing, but the brotherhood and sisterhood is everything. You are not allowed to possess anything on your own. What is your invention, and what would you do with it?
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