n one page (about 12-15 sentences), summarize “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor” by Garrett Hardin

Note that a summary has three central qualities: brevity, completeness, and objectivity. It should not contain your own opinions or conclusions. You should base your summary on the guidelines for writing summaries on pages 6-7. Also, you should assume that your audience is someone who has not yet read Hardin’s article.

After you have summarized Hardin’s article, you should begin writing a critique of it. In three pages, critique Garrett Hardin’s use of the lifeboat metaphor (pages 306-308) to argue against helping the poor. See the guidelines for writing critiques (pages 71-72), along with the hints on incorporating quoted material (pages 44-50) into your critique. Note that a critique is a systematic evaluation of a text in ways that deepen your reader’s (and your own) understanding of the passage.

The critique should have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The body of your critique should attempt to address the assumptions that Hardin makes (or fails to make) in his argument. See a list of suggested assumptions on p. 314. You should guard against simply developing a list of answers to these questions. The questions are hints for you to use in critiquing Hardin’s article. You don’t have to address all these assumptions. Alternatively, you may use your own questions that arise from a careful reading to spark an insightful critique of this article.

Format both the summary (one page) and the critique (three pages) as one essay, with two labeled parts.