Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Understanding Mond's Argument


1. Today in class you created a couple versions of Mond’s thesis.

In order to maintain stability people need to be happy and cannot undermine others’ happiness; people don’t need emotional, religious, artistic, or scientific truth.

Artistic truth, scientific truth, strong emotions, and religion are irrelevant to happiness, which is the most important thing to master in order to maintain community, identity, and stability in the World State.

Perhaps you have created your own version including the important concepts.

2. Tonight choose a long passage from chapter 16 or 17 (other than the one on 227-228) in which Mond develops and supports a part of this thesis.

In an open response explain how Mond develops and supports the thesis in the passage. Use specific quotations in your explanation.

We’ll share these responses tomorrow.

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