Philosophy
Concept of humanity
You will write a 1000-1500 word response to your chosen paper topic from the list below. See Course Outline for the due date.
This assignment is worth 300 points, or 30% of your grade.
DO NOT USE ANY SOURCES OTHER THAN THE DALRYMPLE ARTICLE AND YOUR TEXTBOOK.
YOU WILL ATTACH A FILE IN THE BOX AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.
Learning Objectives:
Students will demonstrate their ability to construct arguments about issues of both personal and universal significance. Their writing should demonstrate that they can construct cogent, concise, and logically coherent arguments.
Assessment:
Students should demonstrate that they can distinguish the relevant points that form a logically coherent argument. They should also be able to construct criticisms which effectively undermine, through the use of appropriate counter-examples, some premise of that argument.
Your assignment is to read any ONE of the following four articles:
The Frivolity of Evil Or,
How and How Not to Love Mankind
Historic philosophers
In this assignment, you are to take one of the Reading Reflection Drafts you have already written, and use that as a springboard for writing a more rigorous, polished, 1500-2000 word (5-8 double-spaced pages) short paper.
You may, alternatively, choose to develop your own topic for this paper, but you will need to get my approval for your topic in order to do so. In order to get an alternative topic approved, you must send me your topic before 4/23/20.
Please consult the Writing Philosophy module for helpful tips in writing a philosophy paper.
YOU MUST MAKE USE OF AT LEAST TWO ACADEMIC SECONDARY SOURCES IN YOUR RESPONSE. I have provided some potential secondary sources for many of the Reflection Draft
Naked Reverse Chapter Analysis
The course is philosophy
Critical Plot Summaries
The required is to do a critical summary fulfilling the professor instructions Bellow:
2—Naked Reverse: pp. 74-140/ chapts. 6-8/ critical summaries (The critical summary for these chapters)
The textbook link https://read.amazon.com/
It’s Kindle on amazon for free if you are student
I attached a copy of the assigned part of the book (Chapters 6-8)
Professor instructions:
To do a critical plot summary first determine from the syllabus the number of chapters you have assigned for each class.Then summarize what has happened in the plot for each chapter separately—for example for chapter one say what happened in chapter one.If you have an assignment of five chapters (for example):
Chapter One
Give a summary of the plot (around 100-150 words)
Chapter Two
Give a summary of the plot (around 100-150 words)
Chapter Three
Moral philosophies
Select ONLY ONE question listed below to write an essay for this week’s discussion forum.
1. From Chapter 1 as a manager, identify the moral or principles you most relate to and describe why. Explain why it is important, in your opinion, for managers to embrace.
2. From Chapter 2 and Figure 4 (Schema for solving ethical problems), describe some of the administrative/organizational challenges as it relates to ethics that managers must consider when looking to solve ethical problems.
Taoist thoughts in Classic China
1. A comparison between Confucius’ thoughts and Taoist thoughts in Classic China.
The essay should follow the very basic format: an introduction, a set of arguments to support your opinion or present your comparative points, and a conclusion. (It is obvious to me that most of the essays relied too much on the Internet sources often neglect the use of such a format.)
You can certainly use materials from other sources, including sources from the Internet, but make sure you are introducing Hindu traditions and the comparison of Classical Chinese thoughts in their proper time periods. You must make proper judgments as to what materials and views should be included in your writings in your research.