Kris Maulden's questions - Week 2
This week, we'll be discussing the online readings and the first two chapters of the textbook (especially chapter 1). You are not required to answer these questions online or post additional questions this week, but if you want to earn extra participation points you are welcome to add them by clicking on the comments button below. But without further ado, here are my thought/discussion questions for the assigned readings:
1. What terms, especially familial ones, does Filmer choose to describe the monarch in his essay? Why do you think he chose them, and what do they reveal to you about the way that Europeans viewed private and public life? More specifically, how did Europeans see family life and political life as separate or combined?
2. Imagine that Filmer and Hobbes were to have a conversation about the essays you read this week. On what points do you think they would agree and disagree, and why? On a related note, how do you think the English Civil War of 1642-1649, in which King Charles I was beheaded (you can read more here), changed the way that Hobbes described sovereignty?
3. In the conclusion to "The White Indians of Colonial America," James Axtell quotes Crevecouer in saying that "something singularly captivating" (p. 88) kept white captives in Native American societies, but Axtell never says what that something was. From the article and the textbook, what do you think it was, and why? Do you think that factor changed for men and women, adults and children, English and French? Why or why not?
4. Last week, we discussed the ways that Americans have discarded (at least, to some extent) the patriarchal views that Europeans maintained during the colonization process. Do you see any attitudes or ideas from the readings this week that have continued until today? Can you provide examples in which those older ideas have continued or been abandoned?
1. What terms, especially familial ones, does Filmer choose to describe the monarch in his essay? Why do you think he chose them, and what do they reveal to you about the way that Europeans viewed private and public life? More specifically, how did Europeans see family life and political life as separate or combined?
2. Imagine that Filmer and Hobbes were to have a conversation about the essays you read this week. On what points do you think they would agree and disagree, and why? On a related note, how do you think the English Civil War of 1642-1649, in which King Charles I was beheaded (you can read more here), changed the way that Hobbes described sovereignty?
3. In the conclusion to "The White Indians of Colonial America," James Axtell quotes Crevecouer in saying that "something singularly captivating" (p. 88) kept white captives in Native American societies, but Axtell never says what that something was. From the article and the textbook, what do you think it was, and why? Do you think that factor changed for men and women, adults and children, English and French? Why or why not?
4. Last week, we discussed the ways that Americans have discarded (at least, to some extent) the patriarchal views that Europeans maintained during the colonization process. Do you see any attitudes or ideas from the readings this week that have continued until today? Can you provide examples in which those older ideas have continued or been abandoned?
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