you have to tell me what it is. (I'm not a mind reader.)
please make it terse---a paragraph
or two, not a chapter, or anything like a chapter.
(I have to read the passage side by side with your outline,
to check that the latter correctly represents the argument in the former.)
My experience is that attempts to outline longer stretches of text
don't generally work out well.
Aug. 22 (for those of you who have already taken a class
from me, who know what these outline
assignments -- not the same as microcommentary assignments!
-- are supposed to look like, and who want to get an early
start): T I.i.6 (first para. of the section,
starting "I wou'd fain ask those philosophers..."; p. 15f
in the Selby-Bigge, p. 16 in Norton and Norton).
(If the terms "substance" and "accident" are new to you,
check out http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/substance/,
but there's no need to read all of it: just look at
the first couple paragraphs of sec. 2.5.1 ["Locke on 'pure
substance in general'"] to get the idea; treat
"properties" and "accidents" as synonyms.)
Aug. 29: T I.iii.6, 2 paras. starting "Probability,
as it discovers not..." (SB pp. 89f = NN 62f)
Sept. 7 (N.B.: due to Labor Day, the assignment is
due on Wednesday): In T I.iv.2, para. 4, starting
"That our senses offer not their impressions..."
plus
the first sentence of the following paragraph (i.e.,
through "...a kind of fallacy and illusion"), at SB 189 =
NN 126.
Sept. 12: Either T I.iv.6, 7th para., starting "Thus the
controversy..."
(SB 255 = NN166f), or para. 16, "But lest this
argument shou'd not convince the reader..." (SB 259f = NN169f).
Sept. 19: EHU sec. 8, pt. ii, 4th para. (starting "The
only proper object of hatred or vengeance..."); this is on
p. 98 of the Selby-Bigge edition.
Sept. 26: T I.ii.6, from the 2nd para. ("There is no
impression or idea of any kind...") through the fifth
para. ("This we may without hesitation conclude to be impossible.")
Oct. 3: T I.ii.2 (SB 32/NN 26), from
"'Tis an establish'd maxim in metaphysics," to end of the section.
Oct. 17:
In "The Sceptic", para. bridging pp. 164f, starting "But
the case is not the same..."
Oct. 24:
T III.ii.1, para. beginning "It appears, therefore, that
all virtuous actions..." plus the para. beginning "In
short, it may be establish'd..." (SB 478-79/NN 307-08).
Oct. 31:
EPM, Appendix II, in the second-to-last para. ("But
farther, if we consider rightly..."), starting at "Nature
must, by the internal frame...", to the end of the
paragraph. (In the Selby-Bigge edition, this is on pp. 301f.)
Before you outline the argument, look at the 2nd para. of
the Appendix, starting "There is another principle..."
Nov. 7:
"Of the Original Contract" (in Essays,
para. bridging pp. 480-81 (starting "What necessity, therefore...").
Nov. 14:
Essays, p. 194, para. starting "My
second observation on this head...";
alternatively,
if you're looking at the optional reading from Korsgaard,
Sources, p. 59, para. starting "Actually, however..."
Nov. 21:
Essays, p. 218, para. starting "There is,
however..."; you'll need to draw on the previous page,
starting with "L'Abbe DUBOS, in his reflections..."
(Keep in mind that the Essays are a stylistic
shift away from the logic exercises of the
Treatise; it takes extra work to pull the
structure of the argument out from the conversational flow.)
Nov. 28:
Either, in "The Epicurean," on p. 139, from "But
of all the fruitless attempts..." to "...of nature's
wisdom than of yours," or
in "The Sceptic", para. bridging pp. 159f, starting "I have
long entertained a suspicion..."
Dec. 5:
EHU sec. 2, last para., starting "Here, therefore, is a
proposition..."
(in the Selby-Bigge, this bridges pp. 21f).
Dec. 12 (Bonus Weekly Assignment):
T III.ii.5, para. starting "All morality depends upon our sentiments..."
(in the Selby-Bigge, on p. 517; in the Norton and Norton,
p. 332).