| TEXT PREPARATION 2
Assignment due in class on October 18* *Since part of the value of the text preparation assignment 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. This assignment is based on: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract, book 4, chap. 8: "On Civil Religion"In well-written paragraphs, a total of 600-750 words, please address the following two questions: 1. pp. 220-22: What stages of development of the relationship between religion and state does Rousseau identify? (Here it may be useful to recall our earlier class discussions of the concept of "theocracy" and to consider the question: What relation do the various stages have to theocracy?) 2. pp. 223–25: What three kinds of religion does Rousseau identify, and what does he see as the advantages and disadvantages of each? As was the case for the Text Summary assignment, your observations in the Text Preparation assignment should be backed up with references that allow your reader to see what they are based on; for this purpose, please use parenthetical page references - for an example of these, see Harvey, Writing with Sources, p. 51, under "MLA Basic Rules." Your answer may also include 1-2 important questions raised in the reading for further discussion. Please indicate the total word count at the end of your assignment. Note: Since this is your first reading of this text, and since we have not yet discussed it in class, you needn't aim for definitive answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on close attention to the text. Your fuller understanding will develop in the course of our class meetings, and with successive re-readings. Please type and double-space your answer, use 1-inch margins, and number and staple the pages you hand in. |
**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 assignment to refer to in our class discussions.
posted October 11, 2012