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
How and How Not to Love Mankind
What We Have to Lose
Roads to Serfdom
You will type a 1000-1500 word response in which you address EACH of the following points
1) What is the author's main argument?
2) How does he support his main argument (evidence, ancillary arguments, etc.)?
3) Do you agree or disagree with him
? 4) Why or why not?
5) Apply the insights of at least two of the readings we have studied in course to your analysis. Make sure to give a substantive explanation of how the philosophers' insights are relevant to the topic you are discussing.