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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

What part do men play in "Death by Landscape?"

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Labels: Atwood, Death by Landscape

What causes the "recognition, or...joy" (p. 391) of the story's conclusion? Is it a delusion?

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Labels: Atwood, Death by Landscape

What would be lost if the story's frame, Lois's pictures, was removed?

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Labels: Atwood, Death by Landscape

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Is idealistic confidence in democratic principles based on a "too optimistic view of human nature?"

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Labels: Children of Light.., Niebuhr

Is "bourgeois civilization...in grave peril (p. 239)?"

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Labels: Children of Light.., Niebuhr

How does Niebuhr distinguish "what is false in democratic theory from what is true in democratic life (p. 255)?"

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What does Niebuhr mean when he says (p. 239) that the community requires freedom as much as the individual?

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Labels: Children of Light.., Niebuhr

How are the human capacities for evil as well as good derived from the "spiritualization" of human impulses?

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Labels: Children of Light.., Niebuhr
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