 RoR in Florida at Merritt Island
Saturday, October 21, 2006, 6:00 PM
Tonight's meeting seeks to fill the mental needs of participants for useful knowledge.
Ayn Rand examined the New Left at the height of its hysteria when she wrote The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Peter Schwartz updated the second edition with a new title: Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.
Learn to use this information to unify the spirit, emotions, mind and body of your authentic Self. As usual, we will have dinner at Applebee's following the discussion.
When: Saturday, October 21, 2006, 6:00 PM
Where: Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 780 E Merritt Island Cswy, Merritt Island, FL 32952, (321) 453-8202
Shared Inquiry Questions for "The Philosophy of Privation" by Peter Schwartz in Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
Interpretive Questions
1. Why did Peter Schwartz assign this title to this essay?
2. Name some common elements of the philosophies of traditional religions, Kant, and environmentalism.
3. In what ways does environmentalism differ from conservationism?
4. Name some of the impacts of the ideas of environmentalism on daily human life.
Evaluative Questions
1. Do you agree with Peter Schwartz that environmentalism fundamentally puts human beings into duty to "Mother Earth" in the same way that Kant's philosophy puts human beings into duty to the "noumenal world"?
2. Do you agree with Peter Schwartz that people should treat the enviroment as the means to their ends rather than as an end in itself?
3. In what ways did this essay influence your values?
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