Paper written on John Duns Scotus. I am of Christian belief, but nothing super profound. I put down 4 sources but it does not matter if it is above or below.
This paper has two (2) main parts of roughly equal length, the first sub-divide into three (3) sections. Initially, you must discover, quote, and explain how the philosopher stands on philosophys main questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. You are expected to research primary sources (no encyclopedia or dictionary quotations here), and expected to accurately represent the philosophers worldview. Given the length of the paper (that is, relatively short), your quotations will need to be brief and well-chosen so that you might have space to explain the text.
In the second section, you are to engage the philosopher from a Christian worldviewHow does his system differ from your own? Where is it susceptible to a Christian critique? How does it represent a challenge to Christianity? What would you say to this person? NOTE: while we expect your own view to be biblical, a mere quotation of verses will come very short of acceptable in this context.
A couple of final comments. You are expected in this paper to go well beyond our class discussionsas a matter of fact, since we have engaged almost every philosopher in the syllabus along just such a rubric, you are strongly recommended not treating any figure we have discussed extensively in class. Pick someone Sproul only mentions, or someone you have heard of outside this course, and show you are capable of applying the tools we have developed through our course of study. Note as well that this is not a biography paper it is going to matter very little where and when this person was born, etc. Any such comments must be restricted to a very few words in an introductory paragraph. We are interested in the ideas, not the person.
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