For my rough draft, I really struggled on making my ideas clear. From the beginning I was never really sure of what I wanted to write about or approach it for that matter. But, as I thought through some things, and started to really engage in the ideas of both Plato and Goldman I realized there were so many ways that I could come at it. In the beginning, I wanted to make sure that the way they met was somewhat unusual so that Plato would be shocked at the way Goldman came at him. And so, I did that exactly. I wanted to created a tension between Goldman and Plato so that the whole conversation would be an ongoing type of argument in some ways. My overall main idea that I wanted to focus in my paper would be the Socrates and Goldman’s position on Religion. I felt like this was such a big aspect in Goldman’s work that it was hard not to choose because of how strongly each person felt about this topic. Socrates was so obligated to the gods in his lifetime and wanted to get that across, and by choosing that topic I knew that Goldman’s role in this would be very strong and kind of heated. I knew that Goldman’s character could get arise out of Plato because in a sense he was a messenger for Socrates and had to defend him because he was stating Socrates beliefs. It was hard at times to really think of good points to say in the paper, but I hope from the comments I received in conference that i’m able to tweak my rough draft so that it’s academically appropriate as a college paper. My hopes are that i’m able to really understand and fulfill the beliefs on both parts and demonstrate my understand of each standpoint and show that to the reader and grader.
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