Journal Write (5 minutes)

As a school body, are we unified or conformed? Explain your thinking.

Without talking, stand up and show me your thinking by organizing yourselves accordingly.

Connotation & Denotation Conformity •agreement in form, manner, or character•action in accordance with some specified standard or authority

Unity •oneness•continuity without deviation or change (as in purpose or action)•the state of being in full agreement

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. Halford E. Luccock

Texas Tech UniversityAn economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.The second test average was a D. No one was happy. When the third test rolled around, the average was an F.The scores never increased as bickering, blaming and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings, and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.Could not be any simpler than that.

Anthem by Ayn Rand

“Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.” Erich Fromm

Humanism “I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.” Ayn Rand

Origin & Definition •Humanism is derived from the Latin term humanitas,

meaning “the development of human virtue, in all its forms, to its fullest extent” (Britannica Encyclopedia). •Humanism came about during the Renaissance in pursuing

the study of rhetoric, literature, moral philosophy, etc. •Over the course of the movement, humanism came to be a

rejection of religious beliefs, centering on humans and their values, capacities, and worth (Oxford English Dictionary). • Self-realization is achieved through reason, not faith

Atheist

Deist Theist

Which one is a humanist?

I do not believe in a God.

I believe in a God who created man and then stepped back.

I believe in one God or many.

Works Cited

• Sosa, Chris. “Don’t Call Me a Humanist.” Huffington Post, 2014. Web. 22 January 2014. • “Humanism.” Def. 1. Oxford English Dictionary, 2013. Web. 22 January

2014. • “Humanism.” Def. 1. Britannica Encyclopedia, 2014. Web. 22 January

2014.

“The Communists’ chief purpose is to destroy every form of independence—independent work, independent action, independent property, independent thought, an independent mind, or an independent man” (Ayn Rand Lexicon).

Ayn Rand Biography• During her high school years, she was eyewitness to both the

Kerensky Revolution, which she supported, and in 1917 the Bolshevik Revolution, which she denounced from the outset. • In order to escape the fighting, her family went to the Crimea, where

she finished high school. The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her father’s pharmacy and periods of near-starvation. When introduced to American history in her last year of high school, she immediately took America as her model of what a nation of free men could be.• When her family returned from the Crimea, she entered the

University of Petrograd to study philosophy and history. Graduating in 1924, she experienced the disintegration of free inquiry and the takeover of the university by communist thugs.• In late 1925, she obtained permission to leave Soviet Russia for a visit

to relatives in the United States. Although she told Soviet authorities that her visit would be short, she was determined never to return to Russia.

Differentiate (from Merriam Webster)

Egoism/Individualism •Ego – “I”•a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action

Egotism/Megalomania • an exaggerated sense of

self-importance: conceit • the feeling or belief that

you are better, more important, more talented, etc., than other people

Kanye West: lyrics that portray egotism, not egoism

“I'm living in the 21st century doin' something mean to it.Do it better then anybody you ever seen do itScreams from the haters, got a nice ring to itI guess every superhero need his theme music.”

EgotismEgotism means to be extremely immersed in oneself. It is the seeing of oneself above the others. This cat views itself as above anyone else, believing it is the center of attention.

EgoIsmIn Latin ego means ‘I’. “A theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of moral behavior” (Oxford Dictionary). Egoism means that my beliefs are my own moral values. The arrows in the picture denote introspection about what matters to me.

Individualism

•The belief that the needs of each person are more important than the needs of the whole society or group.•The habit or principle of being self-reliant.

“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:

‘I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.’ An individualist is a man who

recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.

An individualist is a man who says: ‘I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I

will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—nor sacrifice anyone to myself’”

(Americanism 84)

“The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain.

There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average

drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal

among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his

lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for another. All the

functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be shared or transferred”

“We inherit the products of the thought of other men. We inherit the wheel. We make a cart. The cart becomes an automobile. The

automobile becomes an airplane. But all through the process what we receive from

others is only the end product of their thinking. The moving force is the creative

faculty which takes this product as material, uses it and originates the next step. This

creative faculty cannot be given or received, shared or borrowed. It belongs to single,

individual men. That which it creates is the property of the creator. Men learn from one

another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can give another the

capacity to think. Yet that capacity is our only means of survival” (The New Intellectual 78).

Objectivism • Follow reason, not whims or faith.•Work hard to achieve a life of purpose and productiveness.• Earn genuine self-esteem.• Pursue your own happiness as your highest moral aim.• Prosper by treating others as individuals, trading value for value.• An objectivist is a person who follows certain moral guidelines

such as:• Not taking what he or she does not deserve• Developing a sense of self-sustainability• Respecting and recognizing the rights of other human beings as

individuals

“trading value for value”That which man’s survival requires is set by his nature and is not open to his choice. What is open to his choice is only whether he will discover it or not, whether he will choose the right goals and values or not. He is free to make the wrong choice, but not free to succeed with it. He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. Knowledge, for any conscious organism, is the means of survival; to a living consciousness, every “is” implies an “ought.” Man is free to choose not to be conscious, but not free to escape the penalty of unconsciousness: destruction. Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

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Where did anthem originate?

The word Anthem goes all the way back to the Greeks with the word “antiphonos” meaning “opposite voice” (Lyman)