PHIL University of Oregon Comparing Authors Views on Love and Sex Essay

Write 500 -700 words.

Directions: Please use only the texts we have studied for Unit IV. Do not consult or borrow from any other textual sources (see 2nd page of these instructions on plagiarism). If you do, despite these directions, consult or borrow from any other sources, you must cite the source appropriately to avoid charges of academic misconduct.

here is the pair/set of authors below:

Kollantai and Solomon

Prompt: Write an essay on love, bringing the authors you have chosen into philosophical relation with one another. This is an exercise in recognizing and working with the most central elements of each work in relation to the topic. You need to work closely with the texts and show an understanding of each author’s most important insights or claims. This is also an exercise in comparison, and requires you to understand where the authors agree or disagree with one another, but most importantly, what is at stake, philosophically, in their disagreements or agreements. At the end of your essay, provide a thoughtful, cogent response to the authors’ works in which you not only share your own view but give some justification for it (no more than 1/3rd of the overall essay). Because this is such a short piece of writing it requires you to be succinct and judicious in your use of language. You don’t want to have any words or sentences in your essay that are not doing the work of the essay—so cut everything that is extraneous to your analysis so that you can use the full 700 words to do the work.

Information about how your exam will be graded (also see the grading rubric on the syllabus):

Please only use the texts for the course, no secondary sources. Please read the information in this document about plagiarism and consequences for plagiarism at the end of this document before you begin. If it is not already obvious, the warnings about plagiarism apply to reflection journals as well.