| TEXT PREPARATION 1
Assignment due in class on February 13* *Since part of the value of the text preparation assignment is that it will prepare you to be an engaged participant in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due. If you have to miss that day's class, please contact the instructor to make alternate arrangements. This assignment is based on: Immanuel Kant, "On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy" (1791)Looking at pp. 26-28, please give an overview in your own words of the two first "complaints" against God that Kant considers (I and II), the three respective defenses/"vindications" ((a), (b), (c)) of God against each complaint, and Kant's refutation for each of those. Note that Kant's refutation appears in each case after a dash. (If you find it helpful to draw on the earlier part of the text in order to explain a particular point, feel free to do so.) The assignment should consist of well-written paragraphs, and should be 600-700 words long. Since this is your first reading of this text, and since we have not yet discussed it fully in class, you needn't aim for definitive answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on close attention to the text. As was the case for the Text Summary assignment, your observations in the Text Preparation assignment should be backed up with references that allow your reader to see what they are based on; for this purpose, please use parenthetical page references - for an example of these, see Harvey, Writing with Sources, p. 51, under "MLA Basic Rules." (Note the following convention for citing from an unnumbered footnote: "18n" means "footnote on page 18.") Your answers may also include 1-2 important questions raised by your reading for further discussion. Please type and double-space your answer, use 1-inch margins, and number and staple the pages you hand in. |
**Please print your assignment double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font. Please number and staple the pages you hand in.
Please keep a copy of your assignment to refer to in our class discussions.
posted February 7, 2012; slightly edited February 8, 2012