- Harry Frankfurt, in a presidential address to the American Philosophical Association
a few years ago, said that modern philosophy was born of anxiety. If you reflect on
what you know of Descartes, what would you say Frankfurt meant? How does the
philosophy by Plato and Aristotle deal with anxiety and depression, if any?
Reconstruct selectively major ideas, terms, arguments, and quotes provided by Descartes in his
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Make your paper a “text-oriented”
work that consists of a short analysis of arguments, quotes, and bibliographical sources. Critical
thinking and intellectual independence are required.