Essential Questions

Community: Are there certain obligations for humanity to treat members of a community and the natural enviornment in a certain way? Are there constraints? If so, are the obligations and constraints based only on a concern for the indirect effects on humanity?

Justice: What are the justifications for, and implications of, claiming that there are universal standards for morality? When moral codes of individuals conflict, can criteria be developed for an international morality that transcends them?

Forgiveness: To what extent does the state of a person's knowledge play in deciding whether an act is right or wrong? Under what conditions would it be legitimate for a person to plead ignorance?

Monday, November 16, 2009

Brave New World Chapter 7

Please read Chapter 7 and answer the following questions. Answers must be posted by November 17th for full credit.

1. How does Lenina feel about their appointed guide?

2. How does Lenina react to "naked Indian"(p. 110)? Does it remind you of anyone else we have studied?

3. How does Bernard react to the pueblo of Malpais?

4. Who is Linda? What is her relationship to Tomakin?

5. Why does Linda believe that "everything they do is mad"(p. 121)? Please be specific.
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