Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

Read the essay “A World Split Apart” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  What is he saying about the West?  Why does he say what he is saying?  What is the source of the problem?  What solutions does he give? Write an essay describing what you understand to be the key philosophical ideas in Solzhenitsyn’s speech and in what philosophers those ideas might be found ?  (Identify at least five key philosophical ideas and what might be their sources.)  What does he say about Soviet?  What are its weaknesses? What might Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas  and Nietzsche respond to what Solzhenitsyn says?  Do you agree or disagree with what Solzhenitsyn says and why?

https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/a-world-split-apart