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Essay 1 Thinkers
The exam covers material from the Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and Leucippus and Democritus fragments.
Advice and General Instructions
Please use your work in the discussion forums to facilitate your preparation for Essay 1.
Think of your reader as someone who needs your help. Your essay will serve as a tutorial:
Be sure your essay is fully formed, i.e., introductory remarks, summaries, and analyses. When formulating your position, be sure to make your argument clear.
Organize your thoughts so they are expressed on paper as a coherent whole. Given the constraints of the exam format, you'll probably do minimum of four, and a maximum of six paragraphs. These should 'hang together' in a way that's easy to follow; there is a clear progression of ideas.
Write intelligibly: sentences must be grammatical and cohesive.
Choose your words carefully. Remember, you're constructing ideas for your reader.
Orient your essay around a single point you want to make, using your thinker(s) concepts and argument(s) as evidence.
Be sure to present, describe, and explain significant concepts and their relations:
Describe important concepts and lines of reasoning, e.g., 'He says this, he argues that.'
Explain important concepts and lines of reasoning, e.g., 'This is what he means by this and that.'
Connect important concepts and lines of reasoning to your thesis, e.g., 'So, this is why...'
In addition, do not use material from any outside (i.e., secondary) sources, and do not use quotes from the primary source material longer than several words; I want to read what you have to say about the text. When you do quote the text, however, be sure to enlist the appropriate punctuation.
Your essay should run between (no fewer than) five hundred and (approximately) eight hundred words.
Save your work in a Word document (or similar program), and then copy and paste it into the exam field, which is accessed through the red Submit button.
Please see the essay rubric for scoring categories.
Essay Instructions
Click on the red SUBMIT button above. In the text field provided on the submission page, please copy and paste your essay. Remember to construct grammatical, cohesive, and carefully worded sentences in response to the essay question. In addition, be sure not to quote the text. Instead, make references to the relevant sentences or passages you will discuss.
Essay Question Choices
Please choose one of the following questions to answer:
1) Is Heraclitus' logos equivalent to Parmenides' what-is?
2) Heraclitus asserts, "Changing it rests." (55/B84a) What does he mean, and how would Parmenides respond?
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