Instructions
Important Preliminaries
This essay assignment is worth 20 points (20% of your overall grade). It’s due September 25th, before midnight. Submit your essay to Brightspace. You must receive a Turnitin score.
Write only seven paragraphs. Use double-spacing and 12-point font. Don’t exceed three pages.
Prompt
Introduce your paper’s topic. Then explain Harry Frankfurt’s theory of personhood. After that, using either the first or second strategy discussed in class, explain how to answer the “Who am I?” question. Next, in light of what you just wrote, describe a representative part of who you are as a person. Once that’s done, explain Eleonore Stump’s theory of personhood. Then explain the ideas of internal unification and fragmentation. Finally, with those ideas in mind, describe a representative aspect of who you are.
When you explain something, keep in mind one of our key learning objectives, noted on the syllabus: “explaining carefully and autonomously involves accurately stating ideas in your own words and illustrating them well with your own examples.”
Essay Outline
Introduction (copy-paste; see today’s announcement)
Frankfurt’s theory of personhood
If Frankfurt is right, how might we answer the “Who am I?” question?
If the foregoing is right, who am I?
Stump’s theory of personhood (copy-paste; see today’s announcement)
Internal unity and fragmentation (copy-paste; see today’s announcement)
If the foregoing is right, who am I?
Point Deductions
Points will be deducted from your grade for (i) external source citations, which includes the assigned readings (so use your own words and your own examples), (ii) factual mistakes, (iii) lack of clarity, (iv) prompt-related omissions, and (v) deviations from the Essay Outline above.
Example and thing you have to copy paste are attached.
