This paper is quite a bit different than the others we have been asked write this quarter. When you are reading my paper I would like you thoughts on the following and anything else that you see that I need to change for my final draft. After reading my paper do you think that my […]
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MP3 Rough Draft and Writing Conference Feed Back 3 comments
Fall Quarter Aspects 3 comments
During this quarter we have covered a lot of material. The political theory of Rousseau has been the most challenging for me to get a grasp of. It has been the most difficult for me, because he does not lay out his theory as systematically as Locke and Hobbes. In his work he jumped around […]
Draft Critique 1 comment
This rough draft was a little difficult for me at first to decide what I was going to write on and how I was going to do it. While reading my rough draft, I would like it if you could give me some feed back in the following areas. See if I present a clear […]
MP2.2 3 comments
Emmett Egger Paige Morgan ENGL 298 04 November 2011 MP 2.2 Government exists to protect the peace. Hobbes and Locke each have different arguments for why political authorities form. Hobbes believes they form to preserve the lives of the subjects. In contrast, Locke believes they form to preserve the subject’s property. Hobbes presents a more […]
Locke’s State of War vs. State of Nature 4 comments
In chapter 3 (Page 14-16) Locke talks about his perspective of state of war. He asserts that his view of the state of war is one of enmity and destruction and occurs when a someone tries to take away ones natural law to self preservation. If a thief tries to take away your natural freedom and […]
Process of First Draft for MP1 3 comments
When I first started to write the my first draft I was unsure on what I could use for dialogue. I looked through Goldman’s and Plato’s texts and went through it and picked out points that they would agree or disagree on. After finding several points in each of their works, I began to think […]
Emmett’s MP1roughdraft 4 comments
English 298b MP Rough Draft 10/19/11 Emmett Egger Socrates: I was just at a coffee shop discussing political authority with several people enjoying a latte and I was amazed at how ignorant they were. Goldman: I have learned not to be astonished by the ignorant mass. I am an anarchist and at first […]
2.5 Weeks of Change 4 comments
This class is very different from any other English class that I have taken in the past. The English courses I took in high school usually asked for the classic five paragraph essay. I feel really comfortable with that type of writing assignment. This class has put me out of my comfort zone. In the […]
Goldman’s View of Thick and Thin Selves 4 comments
A thick self is not an individual and is defined by its commitments. Goldman expresses clearly in her essay that individuals who live freely chosen lives are essential for anarchism. An individual that lives a freely chosen life cannot be apart of a thick selfhood by definition. Goldman would have a negative reaction to the […]
Week 2 Blog – Keywords 4 comments
“…there is a man called Socrates, a wise man…”(22b) The word “wise” is an important part of the text for the following reasons. In the book the word plays a similar role to Socrates in Athens. It gets you to think of what you know and what you pretend to know. In the text we […]