Browsing by Subject "philosophy"
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The US legal system relies on its ability to categorize cases presented to present verdicts in an orderly and timely manner. However, as individual identities become more multifaceted, our legal system fails to encompass ...
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(2022-12-10)The point cloud medium in digital survey has been little explored in its overlap with philosophy and theory. Exploring this overlap between the point cloud and philosophy can affect our approach and consideration of such ...
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As a result of ideological opposition or the reduction of his writing to mere propaganda, the legacy of Thomas Paine within mainstream political theory has remained largely unexplored. Never a friend to the elite or powerful, ...
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(2013-09-24)In this project I will create a philosophically rigorous assessment of what it means to be in the 21st century. I will conceptualize the human subject in relation to the primary signifier of the contemporary age: rapid ...
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For this project, I will build upon previous work on phenomenology and the interconnectedness of the world. By utilizing past works on phenomenology, the relation of space, and subjectivity vs. objectivity, I will analyze ...
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(2012-04-18)Privation theorists think that there are no evil entities, that is, that there are no entities which are positively and intrinsically evil. But then what is it that the privation theorist is talking about when citing an ...
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In this paper, I will be applying María Lugones theory of “World-Traveling”, “Arrogant Perception”, and “Decolonial Feminism” to the experiences of minority faculty-specifically women faculty of color- in American institutions ...
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(1986)The way John Barth's characters try to answer the question of their own identity is the thematic catalyst for the conflicts and crises in his fiction. Some characters come to happier and more purposeful conclusions because ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Since Plato first banished poets from his Republic, the relationship between the aesthetic and moral value of literature has been subject to philosophical, critical, and pedagogical debate. In this philosophical investigation, ...
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(1994)This circuitous route seems to have danced neatly around the question: What is the nature of Marxist socialism? What is the nature of the Nietzschean Aristocratic Radicalism? Very well, then, let me answer Marxist socialism ...
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(2023-04-05)The sublime encompasses an opposition of amplified attributes of emotion and experience. These attributes are not commonplace, but are deeply entrenched in human thought, in a place designated the sublime. Throughout ...
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(2012-07-16)The purpose of the present study aimed to develop a comprehensive model that measures the autoethnographic/biographic relevance of dreams, memories, and reflections as they relate to understanding the self and others. A ...
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Literature Review Plato’s Republic (c. 380 BC) is the most critical text under examination, offering the idea of the “noble lie” around which this project is built. Seminal political documents which proclaim some form ...
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(2011-08-08)Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer prize-winning novel Gilead is preoccupied with religious epistemology. Protagonist John Ames, an aging and ill Congregationalist preacher in 1950s small town Iowa, maintains his Christian ...
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In this thesis, I will demonstrate the essentiality of communion relationships in the attainment of freedom, in which I understand freedom to be the capacity to flourish. To do so, I will conduct a comparative and philosophical ...
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(1994)E. M. Forster firmly believed in the value of human relations; the supreme achievement which a person could make was to form a true connection. The connection could be formed between a person and almost anything from which ...
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(1983)What is the relation of mind to body? Are there separate entities called "mind" and "body," or is there only one kind of substance of which they are manifestations. If so, what is that one kind of substance? These are the ...
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(2010-07-14)This thesis argues that 17th century polymath Sir Kenelm Digby treats his scientific discourses as psychological romances in his works Loose Fantasies and Two Treatises, with his use of courtly romantic tropes, and that ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This thesis contrasts the Plotinean attitude towards transcendence at the cosmological level with that of certain Kabbalistic authors of the 13th-17th century. Special emphasis is placed on the different approaches taken ...
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(2022-10-27)Water and architecture have a mildly complicated relationship. To consider water in relation to architecture in the way one considers the plan, verticality, light, climate, and acoustics is difficult.1 In that, water is ...