Animalism Philosophy and Personal Identity Essay

Can you help me understand this Philosophy question?

 

Phil 100 – Sixth Assignment

Write a 3 to 5 page paper in response to the following prompt. Your script should be double spaced, 12pt text.

Persons and Animals. “……probably nine out of ten philosophers writing about personal identity today either deny outright that we are animals or say things that are incompatible with it. This is surprising. Isn’t it obvious that we are animals?” Discuss.

Before writing your paper, make sure you make a plan. Also, it may be helpful to review the “writing a paper” checklist slide that we discussed in the first class (available on the course site under files/slides and handouts

******Your thesis statement can be to defend or attack a certain point of the author (some basic points, don’t involve too much, such as protecting the author’s entire point of view) all of your body paragraphs should be connected to your thesis statement, you need to summarize, And “analysis”.

When you state your point of view, you can use I agree….. Because…….. and also ……..

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