Aristotle’s Account of Friendship – Outline
- Paper should be both expository and critical.
- 12 font size and double spaced. Should be 5 pages total; cover page, 3 pages for body and work cited page.
- 3 pages of the body should be in the form of teaching someone about the topic.
- Expository Section – Be impartial/unbiased –Do not want your opinion on topic – 60 % of paper.
- Critical Section – Argue your position and state your opinion on the topic – 40% of paper.
- Grade is dependent on excellent exposition and thought-out argument.
- Expository Section – will make up 60% of paper.
- Critical Section – 40% of paper.
- Conclusion – An argument is declarative statements that lead to a conclusion.
- Explain Aristotle’s account of friendship
- Explain subject of moral status and what is has to do with friendship
- What is at stake with Aristotle’s account of friendship?
- Please feel free to provide any other information in this section that is unbiased and doesn’t include your personal opinion.
- Argue your position – Do you agree with Aristotle’s account of friendship?
- Explain why you think what you think
- Overcome one major objection on the topic (ex. Let me tell you why that person is wrong and why I am right)
- Restate Aristotle’s account for friendship, state your position and reiterate strong objection as to why you are right.


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