Phil 100 – Tenth Assignment

Write a 3 to 5 page paper in response to the following prompt. Your script should bedouble spaced, 12pt text.

Liberalism and Identity : What, roughly speaking, does it mean to be a “liberal” inthe sense that Appiah is concerned with? What is his response to the old-schoolconservative who worries that freedom to “do whatever you want” (theirdescription of liberalism) could be bad because people will misuse it? How is theidea of leading a valuable, flourishing life part of Appiah’s response, and why is thenotion of a person’s “identity” important to this response?

Before writing your paper, make sure you make a plan. Also, it may be helpful toreview the “writing a paper” checklist slide that we discussed in the first class(available on the course site under files/slides and handouts).

Papers are due Sunday November 8th by 11:59pm. As always, you should explain theideas you are discussing in your own words. If you use someone else’s words in yourpaper, be sure to indicate this clearly (e.g. with quotation marks), including acitation of the original source of the text.

***You can learn from the writing techniques and argumentation logic of this article

Half a page of Intro is enough, Thesis must tell what you argue