For this essay, you are to develop your responses as clearly as possibly in a 3-4 page essay (minimum 3 full pages).  B

For this essay, you are to develop your responses as clearly as possibly in a 3-4 page essay (minimum 3 full pages).  Be sure to eliminate any unnecessary filler, and directly respond to the assigned questions.

For this essay and for all others throughout the course, you are responsible for following the MLA general essay guidelines, which can be found at the Purdue OWL website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ (Times New Roman 12 pt. font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins, page numbers, first page heading, proper in-text citations and works cited entries, etc.)

Questions (Please select only one of the following 2 options):

1. What do you think is the best criterion for personal identity? Are race or gender important parts of this personal identity? If you think there arent any good criterion for personal identity, please explain why this might be the case.  In developing your essay, be sure to explain whether or not you agree with Deleuze and Guattari that we are multiplicities, and whether or not you agree with Lockes views in Of Identity and Diversity. You should also make sure to include at least 1 outside source in the development of your essay, which should be related to your response to the 1^st question (you may use unassigned readings from our text within your essay, but your outside source should come from outside of our text).

2. What are your thoughts on the concepts of race or gender? Do you think these concepts should be eliminated, as Appiah suggests and Haslanger appears to hope for? Or do you think these concepts will always be necessary or useful for some reasons? In your essay, you should make sure to summarize and explain Appiahs and Haslangers views and examine 1 specific cultural issue related to race or gender and how/why your own views on race and gender might be useful in helping to solve or better address this chosen applied ethics issue. You should make sure to include at least 1 outside source in the development of your essay, which should be related to your chosen cultural issue (you may use unassigned readings from our text within your essay, but your outside source should come from outside of our text).