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Seminar Paper assignment
for Kant and Mill

 

 

 

You will need to write, post, and print this seminar paper, then bring it to class on Thursday for use in our seminar. The paper will be short, with only two paragraphs in it. The whole paper must be no more than 1.5 -- one and one-half, max-- pages long. (It is sometimes difficult to keep a paper under that length, but that is the assignment; future papers will be penalized if they exceed the assigned length, so you'll want to practice brevity in this paper.)

For the first paragraph in your paper pick just one idea that was interesting to you in the assigned Mill reading. a) Express what that idea is in your own words; b) quote two short passages from Mill in which he expresses that idea; and c) explain briefly (and separately) what you understand each of those two quotes to mean. The idea you pick could be an idea you like, or one you dislike, or one you have questions about, or one that stimulated your thinking, or... etc.

For the second paragraph in your paper pick just one idea that was interesting to you in the assigned Kant reading. a) Express what that idea is in your own words; b) quote two short passages from Kant in which he expresses that idea; and c) explain briefly (and separately) what you understand each of those two quotes to mean. The idea you pick could be an idea you like, or one you dislike, or one you have questions about, or one that stimulated your thinking, or... etc

Post the paper into the folder for your seminar (in FirstClass) before class on Thursday evening. Then also print the paper and bring it to your Thursday evening seminar. These seminar papers can then serve as stimuli or beginning points for your seminar discussion. (Papers must be typed, not handwritten.)