Let’s think from Professor Caritat’s perspective. You will remember that Professor Caritat, a philosopher and expert in the Enlightenment, was forced out of his home in Militaria. This expulsion, or escape, set him on a journey, as an asylum seeker, to look for the “best possible world.” The book, by Steven Lukes, which is a novel of ideas, is the record of his journey through invented countries bearing curious names like: Utilitaria, Communitaria, Proletaria. The names, of course, relate to the ideologies which guide life and public policy in these places. Keeping this in mind, and based on the materials you have seen, watched, and read this semester, and viewed through Professor Caritat’s eyes (remember he is constantly inquiring, rationalizing, balancing, weighing his experiences and his sources), do you think that, in the contemporary United States, and especially Juárez/El Paso, he would have found “the best possible world”? As you answer this question it is absolutely imperative that you bear in mind the following: Scholars (which you are) advance arguments that help explain how things are (or were). As scholars, working at a University, we explain the world by weighing evidence (source materials) around criteria and concepts. Therefore, it is absolutely crucial that you answer the question posed above by applying concepts and criteria to the evidence (this semester’s source material) you use to advance your argument. Three paragraphs, please. Comment on another student’s contribution, too.
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