Matthew Hutson, in a recent Atlantic blog post entitled “Awesomeness is Everything: Why Encountering Vastness Makes Us More Spiritual, Generous, and Content,”

Matthew Hutson, in a recent Atlantic blog post entitled “Awesomeness is Everything: Why Encountering Vastness Makes Us More Spiritual, Generous, and Content,”

Matthew Hutson, in a recent Atlantic blog post entitled “Awesomeness is Everything: Why Encountering Vastness Makes Us More Spiritual, Generous, and Content,” captured your instructor’s attention long enough for him to decide on a radical switch from the usual food-work-education type of research assignment he usually assigns to something which we could all use more of: awesomeness.*

Final Paper
So, for this fourth and final essay, write an argument essay on awe. In it, state a claim with reasons and support them within the body of your paper.

Introduction

Here, you are to kick things off with a personal anecdote or a hook on awe. Be creative.

Thesis

Your argument’s claim can be in either paragraph one or paragraph two, depending on how you set up your introductory hook. You may consider one or more sides in this section.

Body Paragraphs

This is your “reasons” section in which you’ll work in five (5) sources including:

One (1) of the academic journal articles on awe below.
Four (4) sources on awe that you find on your own. Just get them approved by me, okay? One (1) of which must cover one of our proto-awe dudes—Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Carl Jung, or Abraham Maslow.

Opposition

This paragraph’s where you confront cynical “attitudes”—n.b., not cited sources, just cynicism generally—to one hoping to insert a bit more awe into the day-to-day. Here, you address skepticism about awe, the why-should-I-bother-to-care-about-awesomeness demographic. What are some holes in your discussion? List these; then . . . rebut them.

Conclusion

Come back to your introductory anecdote; work in a reiteration of the more salient points raised in your body paragraphs, and leave us with a final thought.

Organization

The “Classical Essay” handout shows a “classic” organizational approach. Conjure a working thesis by Week 7, and email it to me for feedback; start drafting by the beginning of Week 8.

*Though not new in our literature since we read Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, and other luminaries mulling over ideas on “awe,” Ground Zero for codifying notions of awe was in the year 1757. That’s when a revolution in concepts of awesomeness began, courtesy of a young, Irish philosopher named Edmund Burke. In his influential book, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, he remarked how we feel awe (a sensation he also referred to as “the sublime”) not just during religious ritual or in dealings with the Higher Power, but rather all the time as when we’re riveted by a melody, or when we hear thunder, or in the presence of an Aurora Borealis event. From http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_do_we_feel_awe

PTOà

Academic Journal Article

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