TEXT SUMMARY 2
Assignment due in class on September 27* from students who did not complete Text Summary 1 *Since part of the value of the text summary assignment is to help you prepare the reading assignment for a particular 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.
1. Before beginning the writing assignment, please read
2. Please prepare a written summary (1-1.5 pages** long, approximately 500 words) of: John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, trans. William Popple
(1689), ed. James H. Tully (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983) [purchase
book]: p. 38 ("Having thus at length freed...") - p. 43 near the bottom
("…in one place more than another")
Explanatory Note:
On pp. 39-40, Locke discusses forms of worship that are "indifferent."
This refers to the idea that (some?) ceremonies and rituals are of
lesser importance (i.e., "indifferent") to whatever is deemed to be
essential to (Christian) religion.
In your summary please include at least one
quoted
phrase (e.g., embedded into a sentence of your own) or a quoted
sentence
that helps you convey a point more effectively or vividly (see e.g.,
the list of reasons to quote in Harvey, p. 17 item (f)). Since
this summary is short, quote only a phrase or a short sentence at
a time, and be sure to make clear what point the quoted
phrase/sentence is supposed to illustrate. Note: Since
this is your first reading of this text, and since
we have not yet discussed it in class, the summary assignment is simply
a first effort at figuring out what it says, and doing it will help you
get the most of our in-class work on it. Your fuller
understanding will develop in the course of our class meetings, and
with successive re-readings. **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 summary to refer to in our class discussions of Locke. |
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