Please no any outside source
1000-1500 words
No plagiarism
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.
Any 1 out of 4 topics
1- The Frivolity of Evil
2- How and How Not to Love Mankind
3- What We Have to Lose
4- Roads to Serfdom
Then, FOR THE ARTICLE YOU CHOOSE TO WRITE ON, you will type a 1000-1500 word response in which you address EACH of the following points IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
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 philosophers we have studied in this course to your analysis.Make sure to give a substantive explanation of how the philosophers' insights are relevant to the topic you are discussing.