Humanities Homework Help

This paper consists of THREE sections. Your task is to choose ONE citation from each section and to write a critical commentary/analysis. You should consider the context of the citation, who is speaking, and why they say what they do. Feel free to draw on your knowledge of Freud, Marcuse, and Dreyfus when writing your commentary. Be sure to write precise, clear sentences. Keep your commentary focused. 12, times new roman, double space Don’t forget to tag which citation you choose.

Critically analyze one of the following citations from Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents:

Link https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/20…

1. ‘…in whatever way we may define the concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering are part of that very civilization.’

2. ‘When once the Apostle Paul had posited universal love between men as the foundation of his Christian community, extreme intolerance on the part of Christendom toward those who remained outside it became the inevitable consequence…Neither was it an unaccountable chance that the dream of a Germanic world-dominion called for anti-Semitism as its complement…’

Critically analyze one of the following citations from Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Liberation:

Link https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse…

3. ‘Is such a change in the ‘nature’ of man conceivable? I believe so, because technical progress has reached a stage in which reality no longer need be defined by the debilitating competition for social survival and advancement.

4. ‘[H]ow can he satisfy his needs without hurting himself, without reproducing, through his aspirations and satisfactions, his dependence on an exploitative apparatus which, in satisfying his needs perpetuates his servitude?’

Critically analyze one of the following citations from Dreyfus’ On the Internet:

Link https://cryptome.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz/On-the-I…

5. ‘Such a new being is not interested in collecting what is significant but in connecting to as wide a web of information as possible.’

6. ‘Hyperlinks have not been introduced because they are more useful for retrieving information than the old hierarchical ordering. Rather, they are the natural way to use the speed and processing power of computers to relate a vast amount of information without needing to understand it or impose any authoritarian or even generally accepted structure on it.’