Assignment Instructions/ Description
The third paper is a comprehensive paper/project on the whole course with the following format:
You are invited to speak at a local community center on “Major Issues of the 21st Century.” Your task is to choose the most pressing issue or theme that we have encountered in this course (segment of writing by Descartes and show how it applies to current debate about climate change) and show how a philosophically inclined person would understand and react to this issue. Your presentation will be about 30 minutes and require a 5-6 page carefully written text and a six slide PPT. For this project, you will include a paragraph of “audience analysis, specifying very precisely who, where, and why this speech is being given. You should write the presentation in your own voice in a very warm and spirited fashion, making strong contact with your audience. Your PPT need not be flashy or technically sophisticated, but it should clearly state your major points.
Throughout your presentation you should refer to lessons learned and texts read in Philosophy 336. You should assume that your audience is acquainted with Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant and has a good understanding of the basics of all the issues we have studied this semester. Kindly strive to write in your own voice taking into consideration the needs and interests of your audience. You may assume that your audience has a solid background in philosophy and current affairs; there is no need to define and explain basic issues and themes. Please do not use US dictionary definitions.
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