Option 1
Write a thoughtful and informative summary of one of the following chapters in Archetypes of Wisdom:
Chapter 2: The Presocratic Sophos
Chapter 3: The Sophist: Protagoras
Chapter 7: The Stoics: Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
Chapter 8: The Scholar: Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 10: The Skeptic: David Hume
Chapter 11: The Universalist: Immanuel Kant
Chapter 13: The Materialist: Karl Marx
Chapter 15: The Pragmatist: William James
Chapter 16: The Anti-Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter 17: The Twentieth Century: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger
Option 2
Write a paper about any aspect of one of these philosophies that interests you:
The philosophy of Lao-tzu
The philosophy of Confucius
The philosophy of Buddha
The philosophy of Socrates
The philosophy of Plato
The philosophy of Aristotle
The philosophy of Descartes
The philosophy of Bentham
The philosophy of Mill
The philosophy of Kierkegaard
The philosophy of Sartre
The philosophy of de Beauvoir*
The philosophy of Camus*
The philosophy of Singer
*If you choose de Beauvoir or Camus, additional research beyond our textbook will be necessary.