Paper Guidelines and Final Examination

~ Any subject related to philosophy: figures, fields, schools, movements, problems, historical periods, influences, philosophy and history/politics, philosophy of __________. 
 
~ Follow Essay Checklist
 
~ Five pages plus Works Cited page. MLA citation format.
 
~  Times New Roman, Size 12, double-space.

Essay Checklist:

I. Introduction

A. Create Interest

B. Thesis

C. Main Points

II. Body Paragraph

A. Topic Sentence--General Statement

B. Supporting Sentences--Specific Statements

C. Fully Developed

D. One Topic per Paragraph

III Conclusion

A. Thesis

B. Main Points

C. What's Next?

D. Closure

Philosophy Terms for the Final Examination.

In addition to the following terms, students will be responsible for the terms from the first half of the semester.


Francis Bacon (1561-1616)
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677 )
Gottfried Leibniz ( 1646-1716)
John Locke (1632-1704)
George Berkeley (1685-1753)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Karl Marx (1805-1900)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Utilitarianism
Pragmatism
Existentialism
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Analytic Philosophy
British/Analytic Philosophy vs. Continental Philosophy (Click  HERE)
Hobbes vs. Locke


Possible Essay Question Subjects:

Hobbes vs. Locke
British/Analytic Philosophy vs. Continental Philosophy
Socrates and Western Philosophy
Essential Figures in Western Philosophy
Is Philosophy a Science?

Extra Credit Paragraph (or essay):  The Name of the Rose and Philosophy