Due Dates
Rough Draft:  Due Week 8 (Feb. 28 - March 4) in tutorial.
Final Draft:  Due Week 9 (March 7 - 11) in tutorial.

When you hand in your final draft you must include:

1.  Your rough draft
2.  Your peer review worksheets
3.  Your final draft
4.  All of these should be placed in a  file folder with your name on it.

Prompts
Choose one of the following prompts, and compose an essay which addresses it.

1.  Aristotle writes that “Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.”  Explicate this definition and show how it leads to the conclusion that the contemplative life is the happiest.

Note: The thesis statement is less important for this paper. The introduction should provide the skeletal structure of how the argument will proceed (almost like an abstract of the paper).

2.  To what extent is the conception of happiness presented in the film A Simple Plan Aristotelian?

Note: Because there is very little structure built into the prompt itself, this can make for both a much more interesting and much more difficult prompt to write on.  In addition, the similarities and differences are rather subtle, so it will take a lot of thinking to do this well.  The thesis statement will be crucial for this prompt.

1.  Your rough draft
2.  Your peer review worksheets
3.  Your final draft
4.  All of these should be placed in a  file folder with your name on it.

Objective:  Building on the skills learned in the first paper, explicate a philosophic position and argument.  Like the first assignment, this paper is meant to take the form of an argument; however, this time the focus is exegetical (interpretive).  Many students find doing history of philosophy and working with primary sources quite difficult.  The goal is to develop the ability to take a substantial chunk of material, process it, and separate out core argumentative strands.  In doing this, you will simultaneously be developing your skills at spelling out a philosophic argument.