short response paper 5
In no less than two typed double-spaced pages with 1-inch margins and Times New Roman 12 point font pages answer one of the questions listed below.Please avoid long quotes or paraphrases as I am looking not just for your demonstration that you know the material but also (and more importantly) for your own opinion on the subject. Please clearly indicate on your paper which question you are answering.Submit your response to TurnItIn on Blackboard.Papers will be graded on grammar and style, length, the ability to correctly summarize the arguments in the works discussed, and the ability to synthesize a personal argument based on the works discussed. Outside sources other than the materials read for class are not allowed, nor are any collaborative efforts with other students.
- What is Cartesian Skepticism?What is the First Principle that Descartes derives from this type of skepticism?How does he reverse engineer the existence of God and the sensory world beginning with the First Principle?
- What do you think of Descartes’s four maxims of his method for examining his own beliefs and opinions?Do you think this is a process that everyone should undergo?Have you done something similar to this process in your own life?
- Select two of the following authors (Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau) and compare and contrast their views about human nature.How do they agree/disagree with each other?Which explanation do you find more compelling?Why do you feel this way?In no less than two typed double-spaced pages with 1-inch margins and Times New Roman 12 point font pages answer one of the questions listed below. Please avoid long quotes or paraphrases as I am looking not just for your demonstration that you know the material but also (and more importantly) for your own opinion on the subject. Please clearly indicate on your paper which question you are answering. Submit your response to TurnItIn on Blackboard. Papers will be graded on grammar and style, length, the ability to correctly summarize the arguments in the works discussed, and the ability to synthesize a personal argument based on the works discussed. Outside sources other than the materials read for class are not allowed, nor are any collaborative efforts with other students.
