Thursday, April 4, 2024

MLS Humanities, Vocabulary for Nietzche Listening Assignment

 

Pursuit: something you are trying to accomplish or go after (i.e. the pursuit of happiness) 

Sacrifice: give up something for something else

(i.e. I sacrifice my time to try and make nice stories for class; I sacrifice time with my family for my work)

Confrontation: fighting directly with someone

(i.e. physical confrontation)

Indignation: outrage or anger about something that happened or that someone did to you

Consequence: result, usually a bad one, of an action

(You missed too much class, and now you will fail as a consequence) 

Advocate: support

An advocate: a person who supports something

I advocate that we learn to cook in our classes in school.  I am an advocate for people cooking in school. 

 Transformative: something that changes your life

>>I hope your time at ELS has been a transformative experience for you

 

Discussion questions:

1.      What has been a transformative experience for you?

2.      What is something you advocate?

3.      What was a mistake you made?  What was the consequence?

4.      What causes you to have indignation?

5.      Who did you have a confrontation with? 

6.      What is a pursuit of yours?

7.      What is something you had to sacrifice for something else?

 

Post-Listening Question: 

*Goethe and Nietzsche believed that to reach full human potential, we had to move beyond society’s restrictions?  Is that true?  Is it possible? 

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