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Task 8. Answer the questions to texts A and B:

A.

1. What is the only satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence according to Erich Fromm?

2. What is the first chapter of E.Froms book generally devoted to?

3. What is E. Fromms essay noteworthy for?

4. What premise is said to have become basic to E. Fromms book?

5. What is the thing anyone hardly ever thinks about according to the author?

6. What does the author mean by a peculiar attitude and what is this attitude said to be based on?

7. What are the paths people are known to follow to become lovable and be loved?

8. What is the essence of the notion being lovable in the Western culture?

9. What is the second premise behind the attitude to love, the author indicates as basic to his reasoning?

10. What are the reasons for such kind of attitude according to the author?

11. What is the importance of the new concept of freedom in love according to the author?

12. What feature, characteristic of contemporary culture is emphasized by E. From when the pattern of human love relations is discussed?

13. What is the way, modern men and women look at each other like?

14. What does the author say about the pattern of attractiveness girls used to follow in the twenties and that of today?

15. What outstanding value of modern society is discussed by E. Fromm?

16. What sort of confusion is said to be responsible for the third error people tend to make?

17. Who is the moment of oneness said to be most exhilarating for?

18. What kind of attitude to love is described as prevalent in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

19. What is the only adequate way to overcome the failure of love according to the author?

20. What is the essence of the mastery of any art according to the author?

 

B.

1. What is H.L.Menckens purpose in writing the essay?

2. According to the author is there in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning?

3. Does the author believe that a person chooses what to do in life or is it ordained by the inscrutable fate?

4. Has the author ever been interested in the effects of his activity upon other peoples lives?

5. Can you call a person lucky if he makes a good living doing precisely what he has wanted to do?

6. Has the author ever in his life experienced anything that could be plausibly called a religious impulse? What was his attitude to religion?

7. What firm conviction did the author have?

8. Many people incline to suspect that human life has no meaning, dont they?

9. How does the author perceive immortality?





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