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Paper I - Topic #X Comment by gc-faculty: As you can see, this is the only heading necessary in the body of the paper—the header (not the heading) should only contain your last name and page numbers beginning at one; do not attach a cover sheet, and do not list any other items in the header (e.g. name of institution, my name, name of class, etc.)

For thousands of years people have wondered about the big questions of philosophy, ethics, and…stuff. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods.” [footnoteRef:1] Comment by gc-faculty: Avoid beginning your essay with sweeping generalizations like this one. Comment by gc-faculty: Make sure your paper is formatted with Times New Roman font, 12 point font size, double-spaced with 1 inch margins. Comment by gc-faculty: Be sure to always put “quotation marks” around quotations. Comment by gc-faculty: To make a footnote in MS Word, press “CTRL+ALT+F” on your keyboard or go to “References” and then select “insert footnote.” Footnote #1 shows how to provide a citation from any of Plato’s works…write “Plato,” italicize the title of the work, and then provide the Stephanus number. If you quote, paraphrase, or summarize an external source, you must provide a citation or you shall be charged with plagiarism. Lecture content, however, and any material from any handout I have distributed is assumed, and need not be explicitly referenced. [1: Plato, Euthyphro, 10a.]

Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. “Every art and every science…is directed at some end.”[footnoteRef:2] Comment by Thom: Make sure to indent each paragraph. Comment by gc-faculty: Footnote #2 below is an adequate citation for Aristotle: write “Aristotle,” italicize the title of the work, and then provide the Bekker number. [2: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1094a1.]

“For we both are and know that we are, and take delight in our being and knowing.”[footnoteRef:3] Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. “Consequently, neither am I deceived in knowing that I know.”[footnoteRef:4] Comment by gc-faculty: Footnote #3 demonstrates how to make a citation from a book: write the name of the author (last name first, comma, first name, comma) then italicize the title, list the editor or translator (if any), name the publishing company, identify the copyright date, and then the page number(s) used. Comment by gc-faculty: If a source that you use is the exact same source as the last one that you used, footnote 4 demonstrates how to proceed, since you already would have provided the full citation in #3. [3: Augustine, The Essential Augustine, ed. Vernon J. Bourke (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1985), 33.] [4: Augustine, 33.]

“The argument of the Phaedo begins from Plato's assertion that the soul seeks freedom from the body so that it may best grasp truth, because the body hinders and distracts it.”[footnoteRef:5] Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. Topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content, topic x content. T’Challa is the king of Wakanda in the film Black Panther.[footnoteRef:6] Comment by gc-faculty: Footnote #5 is how to cite an internet citation. Be sure any internet citation comes from a source ending in “.edu” otherwise you shall have points deducted if you frequently cite non-scholarly sources. However, it is better to have a few points subtracted for utilizing a non-scholarly source that to earn a “0” for plagiarism. Comment by Thomas Burrus: How to cite a film. [5: Allan Silverman, "Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, August 30, 2011, http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2008/entries/plato-metaphysics/.] [6: Ryan Coogler, dir. Black Panther. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, and Lupita Nyong’o. 2018; Marvel Studios.]

Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. If you really think about it, Plato was just trying to show you that what you can know is accessible through your own mind. Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Marcia faces an ongoing divorce in one particular episode of American Crime Story.[footnoteRef:7] Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. I think Aristotle was right. Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. “The label ‘divine command theory’ does not pick out any particular metaethical thesis, but rather a cluster of similar views.”[footnoteRef:8] Comment by gc-faculty: Avoid the usage of the second person plural, “you,” since this ultimately ends up referring to me—your professor. Instead, this sentence should be written in this way: “If one really thinks about it, Plato was just trying to show that what one can know is accessible through one’s own mind.” Same content, essentially, yet this is more appropriate. Comment by Thomas Burrus: How to cite a television episode. Comment by gc-faculty: Avoid assertions like this unless you support it with an argument; however, a stronger sentence would simply be, “Aristotle was right,” as it leaves your opinion out of it, and lets the claim stand on its own. Comment by gc-faculty: Footnote #6 is how to provide a citation for a scholarly article: last name, comma, first name; then, in quotation marks, provide the title of the article; then italicize the name of the publication, comma, provide the volume numbers and date of publication, and then provide the page number used. [7: American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson, episode 6, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,” directed by Ryan Murphy, written by D. V. DeVincentis, featuring Sterling K. Brown, Kenneth Choi, and Sarah Paulson, aired March 8, 2016, on FX.] [8: Richard Joyce, “Theistic Ethics and the Euthyphro Dilemma.” The Journal of Religious Ethics, 30, no. 1 (Spring 2002), 49.]

. “All corruptible natures therefore are natures at all only so far as they are from God” (Augustine 51). Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Can’t don’t didn’t won’t wouldn’t couldn’t shouldn’t shan’t weren’t. Comment by gc-faculty: DO NOT USE MLA CITATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comment by gc-faculty: Avoid the use of contractions in a scholarly paper.

Where were you at? Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Comment by gc-faculty: Avoid ending a sentence with a n unnecessary preposition…here, “Where were you?” would be just fine.

What sort of punishment, and how great is due to each fault, belongs to Divine Judgment, not to human; which punishment assuredly when it is remitted in the case of the converted, there is great goodness on the part of God; and when it is deservedly inflicted, there is not injustice on the part of God; because nature is better ordered by justly smarting under punishment, than by rejoicing with impunity in sin; which nature nevertheless, even thus having some measure, form, and order, in whatever extremity there is as yet some good, which things, if they were absolutely taken away, and utterly consumed, there will be accordingly no good, because no nature will remain.[footnoteRef:9] Comment by gc-faculty: If you provide a quotation that is five lines or longer (and you should, for the most part, refrain from doing so), be sure to format it this way: do NOT put it in quotation marks in this instance; instead indent the entire quotation, single space it, and nevertheless be sure to insert the footnote reference at the end be sure to put the citation itself down below (in this case, this is a reference that has already been used in this assignment, so last name and page number are all that are required here.) [9: Augustine, 51.]

Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content, topic y content. Comment by gc-faculty: With this formatting, no “works cited” page or “bibliography” is necessary since all citations are easily accessible in the footnotes.