Summarize, and Analyze the content and Critique the primary sources’ argument in clear, precise, coherent prose. Section can be labeled (summary, analysis, critique) but not required.
The summary section should be no more than 100 words on each page.
The main focus of these essays should be the Analysis and Critique.
The essays should be on:
Page 1: Descartes, “Some Thoughts on the Sciences” and “The Principal Rules of the Method,” in Discourse on Method, I & II
Page 2: Descartes, “Concerning Things Than Can Be Doubted” and “Of the Nature of the Human Mind, and That It Is More Easily Known Than the Body,” in Meditations, I & II