What can the pre-modern world teach us about how to be better humans in a modern, globalized world?
Submit a 1500-2000 word Research Paper that advances a scholarly argument which answers the question above with your primary and scholarly source(s), but is still open to interpretation and different views. You have two options:
Option #1: Single focus essay – Identify one pre-modern source, concept, philosophy, or person that you have studied in the course and make an argument, grounded in scholarly research, in answer to the question above.
Option #2: Comparative essay – Identify two different pre-modern sources, concepts, philosophies, or people studied in the course. Write a comparative essay that makes an argument, grounded in scholarship, in answer to the question above.
Select a philosopher, philosophy, wisdom text or concept from your assigned in-class readings that modern scholars have identified as making a contribution to living as better humans in our modern world.