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, December 28, 2009

Brave New World Chapter 11

Please use these questions as a guide as you read Chapter 11. if you wish to answer them for extra credit, please post o your blog by January 4.

1. Why is Dr. Shaw glad "to have had this opportunity to see an example of senility in a human being." (p. 155)?

2. Why are people saying behind Bernard's back that, "He won't find another Savage to help him out a second time." (p. 157)?

3. Why do the Eton students in the Beta-Minus Geography room laugh at the religious activities of "savages"? Why do you think it significant that there are no twins at Eton? Do you think that is still true today?

4. How do children in the World State learn about Death?

5. Why do lower-caste workers receive daily Soma rations? Do we do this today?

6. Why does John tell Lenina that, "I don't think you ought to see things like that." (p. 169)?
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