Aristotle-Philosopher

Format: The first half of your paper should be explication, in other words, should be a clear, concise description of the viewpoint of the philosopher you are looking at. You should give an accurate and charitable account of the thinker’s arguments even if you end up critiquing them. The second half of your paper should be critique or analysis: you must then either attack or defend the philosopher’s argument. You must, of course, give reasons and not just state your opinion: your goal is to convince someone else who might not agree with you that your view/opinion is the right one, or at very least a valid view/opinion to have. The second half of the paper is persuasive: persuade me that your view about your chosen philosopher (“they are right/wrong about _____”) is a valid, reasonable view, perhaps even the right one. Thesis Statement: The main point you are arguing for in your essay should be stated in a single sentence somewhere in your introduction. E.g., “Kant is wrong in his belief that ALIENS run the world because blahblahblah.” The rest of your paper would then 1. Describe how Kant argues aliens run the world and then 2. Argue that Kant is insane for believing this and then give a well-reasoned argument why he is wrong. Citations: You are not required to do outside research for this paper. However, you are more than welcome to, and I even recommend it: seeing what other people say and think about your chosen topic can be very helpful. If you DO end up doing outside research, and you use it in your paper, you MUST cite it. work. If you do cite work besides the textbook, you must also have a Works Cited page. If you use quotations from the textbook, you can just put the page numbers in parentheses. E.g., “My name is Kant, and aliens totally run the Earth.” (25). Purdue OWL is a good reference for how to cite sources in the various formats: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/