11.20 - Ayn Rand Research Outline and Response

We started today's class with the following writing prompt:

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After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, we discussed students answers looking at who agreed, who disagreed, and who felt conflicted about her perspective. This lead us into discussion of the terms, "objective" and "subjective" which we defined as follows:

Subjective - a perspective based on personal feelings or opinions

Objective - a perspective that is universal, not based on personal feelings or opinions

We discussed how Rand's perspective on love is that it should be an objective decision in which we decide to love people who are worthy of our love. Some people in class argued that love is an entirely subjective experience and no one can say what it is like for someone else. 

This lead us back to what objectivism means and how Ayn Rand came to this idea. 

In getting back into this, everyone finished their Ayn Rand research and then organized their responses to the questions through the provided outline:

What was Ayn Rand's social/political philosophy?
How did she come to this philosophy?

After everyone finished the outline, there was time to turn the outline into a formally written response.

Materials used today included:

Ayn Rand Research sheet
Ayn Rand Research documents

Research outline and response

Homework:

If you did not do so in class today, finish your research, outline, and response on Ayn Rand's political/social philosophy of Objectivism and how she came to this philosophy.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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