Due Date: Monday, Dec. 20 at 9pm in the hangbox outside McCook 325.
A penalty of 10 points for each day late after 9pm on 12/20 will be applied.
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Instructions: Write ONLY your LAST NAME, page #, and date as Header. Begin your essay immediately under the Header. Write ONLY in 12pt Times New Roman font.
Answer the questions below in the form of a cohesive essay. Students are expected to provide relevant and accurate details regarding the philosopher’s claim or theory. (Do NOT oversimplify). The best paper will take time to define terms and explain all related and relevant concepts in order to write a comprehensive and cohesive essay.
Make sure every claim you attribute to a philosopher is based on the text. You MUST CITE! Parenthetical citations with text title and page number is all that is required. Any external source used ought to be cited! Check library website on proper way to cite internet sources. However, answers should not be primarily based on external sources.
Academic Integrity Contract: Copy and Paste the Student Integrity Contract below onto your paper with your signature at the end of your exam. Typed signatures will be accepted. Failure to sign the academic integrity contract will delay grading of your paper until the contract with signature is submitted! Any instance of academic dishonesty will result in an F for the exam and reported to the Dean of Student’s office.
In accordance with Article II of the Trinity College Student Integrity Contract: (Write It and Sign It)
I hereby confirm that the paper, exam, or other academic exercise I am submitting with this declaration represents my own work; that I have properly acknowledged and attributed any and all information and ideas that I have used from other sources; and that no collaboration unauthorized by the instructor of the course occurred in the course of its completion.
Essay Questions: Choose One (Worth 50 points) Make sure to define and explain all relevant terms.
- Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is said to have inspired a “Copernican Revolution” in philosophy. Describe Kant’s metaphysics and how it answers Hume’s skepticism. (Include terms like Pure Concepts of Understanding and Synthetic A priori knowledge.) Why is Kant’s work considered a “Copernican revolution?” (In other words, explain the lasting impact of Kant’s metaphysics on philosophy).
- Explain Hegel’s phrase “The Real is Rational and the Rational is Real.” How does this phrase connect to Hegel’s Absolute Idealism and Philosophy of History? How is this phrase linked to Hegel’s theory of the Dialectic? Make sure to include ideas like the Master/Slave dialectic and its relationship to consciousness, the relationship of idea to culture, etc.
- Karl Marx’s Historical Materialism is said to have turned Hegel’s Philosophy of History on its head. Explain what this means. Explain the role of alienation, ideology, conditions of labor, division of labor and their relationship to exploitation, the crisis of Capitalism and the eventual revolution that should lead to the beginning of Communism.
Part II- Worth 50 points. Make sure to define and explain all terms!
Jean-Paul Sartre is known for his phenomenological existentialism. Starting with Descartes Cogito, Sartre’s philosophical work identifies the structure of human consciousness. Define and explain Sartre’s idea of consciousness including the significance of the concept of Nothingness and the metaphysical structures which are the basis for consciousness. Explain the relationship and significance of the “Look” to consciousness (what structure of consciousness does it produce? How does it affect us?) How are the Sartrean structures of consciousness related to the problem of freedom and determinism, the concepts of facticity and the situation, anguish and responsibility, authenticity and bad faith?
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