Humanities Homework Help

Choose one from these Positions FOR Objectivity:

• Descartes’ Rationalism + Hume’s Empiricism = Scientific Method
• Marx’s Historical Materialism / Ideology Critique

Choose one from these Positions AGAINST Objectivity:

• Nietzsche’s Existential Perspectivism (Subjectivity)
• Abram’s Phenomenology (Intersubjectivity)

Hence, these are the possible debate options: (select one for your essay)

• Scientific Method vs Perspectivism
• Scientific Method vs Phenomenology
• Historical Materialism vs Perspectivism
• Historical Materialism vs Phenomenology

PROMPT: Write an 800-900 word essay in which you argue FOR or AGAINST the conclusion that objectivity is the best way to know the truth about reality. Use one well-developed example to make your case. Use (only) texts assigned or discussed in this class to make your argument.

NO OUTSIDE RESEARCH!!!!! USE FILES THAT ARE GIVEN ONLY!!