Sigmund Freud, \"Civilization and itsDiscontents\"
Chapter 5:
1        Freud’srumination on the ideas of loving your neighbor as much as you loveyourself and loving your enemies: on what basis does he critiquethese ideas?
2        Pointing tothe ineradicable fact of human differences, Freud says, “So long asthese undeniable differences have not been removed, obedience tohigh ethical demands entails damage to the aims of civilization,for it puts a positive premium on being bad.†Explain that.
3        The openingpages of this chapter build toward Freud’s assertion that humansare “creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoneda powerful share of aggressivenessâ€; man is revealed to be “asavage beast to whom consideration towards his own kind issomething alien.†Does he persuade you that this is true?
4        What’s meantby the phrase, “the narcissism of minor differences�
5        At the end ofthe chapter, there’s a jab against American political ideology?What is it?
