Kant Essay from an excerpt
1. Read the entire excerpt once through. Perhaps take note of the questions I pose, and the places in which I pose them, but don’t comment on them yet.
2. Now go back and read (more carefully and deliberately) the passages I’ve highlighted and numbered 113, and read them in that order (i.e., beginning with passage 1 and ending with passage 13).
3. While you’re reading through them, answer the questions I pose by leaving a comment. If you’re having difficulty making sense of the comment, leave a question for other students to answer. Use other students’ comments and/or questions to help you make sense of what’s happening in that passage.
4. Compose a paper in the form of a commentary, and have the following structure:
1. Give a basic summary of the passage as a whole, using your answers to the questions posed in Passages 7 and 13 to outline the main claims of the “basic law” and its “corollary.” This is your first paragraph.
2. In the next paragraph, introduce the “basic law” by providing a summary of your view of its main point. Then:
3. Give a detailed walkthrough of your answers to the questions posed in Passages 16. Devote a paragraph to each passage.
4. In the next paragraph, introduce the “corollary” by providing a summary of your view of its main point. Then:
5. Give a detailed walkthrough of your answers to the questions posed in Passages 8, 1012. Devote a paragraph to each passage.
6. Describe how you think the “basic law” and the “corollary” are related. What is the “corollary” adding to or clarifying about the “basic law”? Use your answer to the questions posed in Passage 9 to make sense of the connection.