thinkers (Plato, Kafka, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Bartky, Camus) discussed.
Select one topic we explored in class such as death, freedom, responsibility, God/religion, truth/values, nature/ecology, feminism, being (a) human (animal), the body, or language.
Select two of the thinkers (Plato, Kafka, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, De Beauvoir, Bartky, Camus) discussed.
Select one topic we explored in class such as death, freedom, responsibility, God/religion, truth/values, nature/ecology, feminism, being (a) human (animal), the body, or language. Or you can combine up to 2 topics.
-Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the ideas of the two chosen philosophers.
-Start your essay with an introduction in which you state a clear, specific, and argumentative thesis that relates the two thinkers
-Start by explaining each thinkers in detail separately.
-Use at least 3 quotes by each thinker (thus a total of 6 quotes).
-Provide a compare and contrast after you have fully explained both thinkers in detail.
-Write for a hypothetical reader who is, like yourself, smart, but who did not read these texts. Make sure it is clear for such a reader.
-Only use resources given
