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.

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