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Using yоur plаnning sheet, the cоmments frоm your Peer-Review session, аnd the comments Dr. Cаmpbell made on Draft #1 of your Comparison-Contrast Essay, write a second draft of your essay. Your second draft should be at least 800 words long. Please make sure you compare and contrast two subjects. Please remember that any sentence that is not your original thought must contain an in-text citation in MLA format. Any essays that do not include appropriate in-text citations for research will be penalized.
Frоm the five pаssаges given belоw, select twо. Pleаse provide both the author and the title of the text for each passage. Then, analyze each passage by explaining its context, key themes, and relationship to the dialogue between Christianity and culture. Each passage will be worth 25 points, totaling to 50 points. Note: Please clearly indicate the passages to which you are responding by noting the lower-case letter of that passage. Failure to do so will automatically result in no credit. (a) “Let us grant then that theology is conversant with the loftiest divine contemplation, and occupies the regal throne among the sciences by dignity. But acquiring the highest authority in this way, if she does not descend to the lower and humbler speculations of the subordinate sciences and has no regard for them because they are not concerned with blessedness, then her professors should not arrogate to themselves the authority to decide on controversies in professions which they have neither studied nor practiced. Why, this would be as if an absolute despot, being neither a physician or an architect but knowing himself free to command, should undertake to administer medicines and erect buildings according to his whim – at grave peril of his poor patients’ lives, and the speedy collapse of his edifices…” (b) “But as man gradually advanced in intellectual power, and was enabled to trace the more remote consequences of his actions; as he acquired sufficient knowledge to reject baneful customs and superstitions; as he regarded more and more, not only the welfare, but the happiness of his fellow-men; as from habit, following on beneficial experience, instruction and example, his sympathies became more tender and widely diffused, extending to men of all races, to the imbecile, maimed, and other useless members of society, and finally to the lower animals, so would the standard of his morality rise higher and higher.” (c) “It is by virtue of his spiritual soul that the whole person possesses such a dignity even in his body. Pius XII stressed this essential point: If the human body takes its origin from pre-existent living matter, the spiritual soul is immediately created by God. Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the spirit as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.” (d) “Because of the increasingly close interdependence which is gradually extending to the entire world, we are today witnessing an extension of the role of the common good, which is the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily. The resulting rights and obligations are consequently the concern of the entire human race. Every group must take into account the needs and legitimate aspirations of every other group, and even those of the human family as a whole. At the same time, however, there is a growing awareness of the sublime dignity of human persons, who stand above all things and whose rights and duties are universal and inviolable.” (e) “The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say ‘this is mine’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared by someone who, uprooting the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellows: ‘Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget that the fruits belong to all and the Earth to no one!’”
Frоm the three clаims given belоw, select оne. Pleаse write аn argument either in agreement or in disagreement of it. Support your argument by drawing upon at least two of the readings discussed at any point in this course. Exceptional essays will include a clear thesis statement, an organized structure supporting this argument, and integrate appropriate sources neatly within the argument. Note: Please clearly indicate the passages to which you are responding by noting the lower-case letter of that passage. Failure to do so will automatically result in no credit. (a) There are some things that science will never be able to explain. Scientific methods and studies cannot definitively provide an explanation for the existence of human consciousness, moral principles, and the human soul. For this reason, there will always be a need for the Bible and other religious texts to supplement our understanding through divine revelations. (b) Human dignity is subjective and a social construct based on a society’s morals and traditions. The determination of human value thus falls in the same category as other aspects of culture, such as familial expectations and dietary habits. Therefore, societies should respect one another’s different estimations of human dignity, regardless whether such a view would be problematic in one’s own cultural perception. (c) The preservation of individual liberties and entitlements is necessary for achieving the common good in society because it permits people to exercise their rights to the extent that they desire. For example, in the case of private property, fairness and equality are ensured by the direct relationship between the productivity of one’s labor and the quantities of property obtained.