Choose one philosopher from each of the following groups (corresponding to the three weeks of class so far):
Socrates 2. Seneca, Epictetus, or Montaigne
Emerson or Thoreau
And then write a paper comparing/contrasting those three views and your own considered point of view on the following question.
What is the purpose of education, and does the study of philosophy help us to achieve that purpose? If it does help, how does it help? If not, why not?
The goal of a philosophy paper is to present your own considered and clearly articulated beliefs alongside your understanding of the material we have read in the course. To that end, please be sure it is always clear whose views are being expressed—yours or one of the authors whose works have been assigned. Be sure to address yourself not only to an answer to the question, but also to providing your reader with an account of why you believe your answer to be correct. What are your reasons for taking one position or another? On what basis do you say the things you say about the readings? In order to justify the claims in your paper to your reader, when discussing material from the readings you must offer substantiation for your claims with quotations from the text. Quotations are absolutely required. Papers that use no direct quotations to support the claims they make about the readings will receive an F; papers that quote only one of the two thinkers discussed in the paper will not receive a grade higher than C.
Please do not consult any sources or resources other than the assigned readings. Any paper that quotes from any other source (including anything I’ve written as part of this course) will receive a substantial grade penalty; any paper which can be shown to be reliant upon any other source without citation will receive a failing grade
The paper should be 4-5 pages long, typed and double-spaced. Use an 11- or 12-point font with reasonable margins. Citations should be in either the MLA or Chicago Manual of Style formats
and as such must give full bibliographical information for the text in either a “works cited” (MLA) or bibliographical footnotes (Chicago). Quotations should be set off from the rest of the paper (typically by quotation marks), and you should cite the page numbers in the text where the quoted passage appears.
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