1998/99
ASSESSED COURSE ESSAY
The assessed course essay must be handed in by Monday 8th March, and there are penalties for late submission. It will count 25% towards your total marks for the module. The remaining 75% will depend on your performance in the sat examination in May/June. For details of submission procedures, marking criteria, etc., read the Assessment section of the Module Handbook.
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As far as possible, you should give evidence of having mastered all the compulsory reading from Spinoza’s Ethics Part I.
Write an essay of about 1,000 words (± 10%), which must be wordprocessed and submitted in duplicate, on one of the following topics:
1. Is Spinoza’s identification of essence and definition an elementary logical mistake, or a deep metaphysical insight?
2.What grounds does Spinoza give for saying that God is extended substance? Does he succeed in showing that this enhances rather than detracts from his divine status?
3. What arguments does Spinoza give for the thesis that there is nothing contingent in the universe? Is he guilty of confusing physical and logical necessity?
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