Please answer each with a minimum of 1-2 sentences. It is fine to write more, but your answers should be written in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
1. Describe Bellah’s answer to the question “how ought we live?”
2. Describe civic republicanism or neo-Athenian republicanism. Support your answer with a quotation from the assigned reading.
3. Identify 2-3 contemporary civic republicans.
4. Describe Bellah’s paradox that American society is more interdependent than ever, but also more individualistic and privatized than ever.
5. Describe a problem of excessive individualism according to Bellah. 6. Support your answer with a quotation from the assigned reading.
6. Describe Bellah’s critique of the therapist.
7. Analyze one way that Bellah’s argument is applicable to American society today and one way that it is not.