philosophy essay

Good philosophy paper includes:

· Exposition

· Critical analysis

Essay should have: intro, body, doesn’t necessarily need conclusion

Example of how the paper should look like

· Briefly describe the view of Brittany Maynard [about 0.50 page long]

· Define the physician-assisted suicide, active and passive euthanasia

· Thesis

· Briefly explain the view of J. Gay-Williams [write about 0.75 page long]

· Would he approve or not, and why?

· Briefly explain the view of James Rachels [write about 0.75 page long]

· Would he approve or not, and why?

· Briefly explain your view about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

· Do you approve California’s decision to legalize physician-assisted suicide or not?

· Raise and respond to objections to your view

· State the objections, think of the best objections that others might bring up

· Answer them from your view to support it

Tips :

· One-inch margin for the paper

· No title page

· No reference page needed

· Come up with snappy title at the top of page 1

· Number of page at the bottom of every page

· No need for conclusion, just end with the objections and answers

· Be clear!

· Don’t raise common objections, raise interesting ones

· Use section headers

· Intro

· Body one [title: J. Gay-Williams View]

· Body two [title: James Rachels View]

· Body three [title: my View]

· Avoid Direct quotes

· Use examples to explain your points

· Explaining too much better than explaining too little

· Feel free to use 1st person “I”