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The Psychology Of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 Into Account, Daniel Mailick

All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Three puzzles motivate this dissertation. First, how much does Republic Book 10 contribute to the dialogue’s main argument? For centuries, commentators have found Book 10 to be a puzzling and disappointing conclusion to the dialogue. The second puzzle is the important and still much debated question of whether Plato considered the parts of the soul to be independent and agent-like (as ‘realists’ interpret the dialogue) or not (as ‘deflationists’ argue). The third puzzle regards an issue that is much less discussed in the literature, namely the Republic’s notion of character. On the one hand, Socrates never launches an ...

The Library Of Robert Morris, Civil Rights Lawyer & Activist, Laurel Davis, Mary S. Bilder

Boston College Law School Faculty Papers

This article analyzes the Robert Morris library, the only known extant, antebellum, African American-owned library. The seventy-five titles, including two unique pamphlet compilations, reveal Morris’s intellectual commitment to full citizenship, equality, and participation for people of color. The article provides a model for the interpretation of small law libraries.

List: Participants In The Campaign Techniques Workshop, National Women’S Education Fund.

Saffy Collection Textual

A participant list in the Campaign Techniques Workshop for the National Women's Education Fund held in Atlanta, Georgia. July 26-29, 1974. Box 28, Folder 1

“Father Retains His Love Of Shakerdom”: The Journals Of Wendell P. Elkins, 1874-1929, Galen Beale

American Communal Societies Quarterly

In 2012, a set of forty-eight journals which followed the life of Wendell Elkins until his death, were donated to the Andover (N.H.) Historical Society. Written by the son of a Shaker apostate, these journals provide a new look at how the relationship between the Shakers and their former Believers had evolved by the late nineteenth century. The earlier, stricter edicts separating Believers and apostates had softened with time. The Elkins family’s relationship with the Enfield, New Hampshire, Shakers was neither combative nor dismissive, but rather, kind and loving. The journals’ many Shaker-related stories which are extracted here ...

The Role Of Women In Hopedale, A Nineteenth-Century Universalist-Unitarian Utopian Community In South-Central Massachusetts, Deirdre Corcoran Stam

American Communal Societies Quarterly

In the communal Massachusetts society known as Hopedale, existing formally from 1841 to 1856, women were granted an extraordinary range of rights comparable to those enjoyed by men, including holding office, owning property, and enjoying civil protection even within marriage. Women played a major role in civic engagement and intellectual life. The progressive role for women’s rights took place among a group of people who, unlike inhabitants of contemporary Fruitlands and Brook Farm utopian experiments, were described by Hopedale Community head Adin Ballou as “poor, and comparatively unlearned.” Vestiges of community values were perceptible a century later long after ...

Table Of Contents

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Contents of the July 2013 issue.

The Place Of Spirituality In Social Work: Practitioners’ Personal Views And Beliefs, Alexis Garcia-Irons

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The integration of spirituality in Social Work is on the rise, but due to the lack of literature on spiritually-involved interventions and applicable integration of spirituality into ones practice, literature suggests social workers do not feel competent or confident in this area of practice. This study explores the attitudes and beliefs of social workers in San Bernardino County towards spirituality in their own practice and social work overall. The data is collected through audio recording individual interviews with each participant, which are then transcribed into transcripts. The transcripts are coded for themes and commonalities among the participants. Results lay ...

The Ideologies And Outcomes Of The French And American Revolutions, Donald D. Palmer

Masters Theses

One effective way to compare the fruits of biblical Christianity with modernism is to contrast the ideologies and outcomes of the American and French Revolutions. Pre-revolutionary America was rich with biblical influence. Adherents of both Protestantism and Deism sought a “Christian society,” and while revolutionaries drew from both biblical Reformation and secular Enlightenment thought, much of the latter was biblical thought in secular form. Ministers employed the Bible extensively to support the Revolution. This relative theological consensus encouraged religious practice and a political system that accommodated dispute. Human rights were secure thanks to man’s subordinate position under God. Even ...

Shaker Messages From Mary Magdalene And John Calvin: Haughty Spirits, Bearing For The Dead, And The Problem Of History, Jane F. Crosthwaite

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Among the pleasures and puzzles of the Era of Manifestations are the many messages that Shaker instruments received from personages long dead. The responsibility and perhaps temptation of the scholar is to decode these messages, to analyze the intention of the instrument, the value of the message, and the utility of the experience for the larger Shaker enterprise.

I have chosen two messages to examine; although they are rather dissimilar—one being a life story from Mary Magdalene and the other a confession from John Calvin—they do have several features in common. They exemplify the range of messages recorded ...

Recognizing America's "Religious Nones" And Their Influence On Political And Legal Norms, Samuel Seeds

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

No abstract provided.

The Sepulchres Of The Fathers Revisited, Sarah Dennis

Criticism

No abstract provided.

'Just Call Me Bill': William Taft Brings Spectacle Politics To The Midwest, Jeffrey Bourdon

Studies in Midwestern History

Historians long rated William Howard Taft’s campaigning ability during the 1908 presidential contest as below average and in need of Theodore Roosevelt’s resuscitation. Recently, they have given Taft more credit for his electioneering appearances. Taft’s ability to teach out to voters was vital to his candidacy because he ran at a time in American political history when the ability to deliver charismatic speeches and shake hands was put at a premium by larger-than-life candidates such as Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, and Eugene Debs.

Taft toured several regions during the campaign, including the Midwest, the South, the Mid-Atlantic ...

Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Christian Goodwillie Appointed Curator

Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

1. Chamberlin, Solomon. A Sketch of the Experience of Solomon Chamberlin, To Which is Added a Remarkable Revelation, or Trance of His Father-In-Law Philip Haskins: How His Soul Actually Left His Body and Was Guided by a Holy Angel to Eternal Day. Lyons, N.Y., 1829. 12 p. 18.4 cm.
2. Hebert, William. A Visit to the Colony of Harmony, in Indiana, in the United States of America, Recently Purchased by Mr. Owen for the Establishment of a Society of Mutual Co-operation and Community of Property, in a Letter to a Friend ...

Norby Collection Databases, Brookings Businesses Listed By Street Address, Sdsu Archives And Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library

Regional Collections

The Databases sub-group is composed of material was compiled by George Norby. This material covers Brookings (S.D.) related topics and includes businesses, historic homes, churches, city and county government, and South Dakota State University. As noted by George Norby within the collection, information compiled in these databases is as accurate as possible and was gathered from the following sources: Brookings County Press, Brookings Register, Brookings County Sentinel, Brookings telephone directories and business directories, Brookings City publications, Brookings County election returns, Brookings County Commission minutes, and records in the Brookings Count Register of Deeds office. While this material is quite ...

Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, 1831-1917, Letter.

Correspondence

Letter, Concord, Mass., to Edwin R. Champlin, Fall River, Mass. Regarding his book and others on John Brown. Also mentions publications on Theodore Parker-Abraham Lincoln correspondence.

T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", And Yoga Philosophy, Jessica Cloud

Master's Theses

While pursuing his graduate studies at Harvard, T.S. Eliot put a year into deep study of the Yoga Sutras with renowned scholar James Haughton Woods. Yoga, defined in the Sutras as the practice of stopping “the fluctuations of the mind-stuff” (Patañjali 8), provides the possibility of hope and equanimity in Eliot’s poem The Waste Land (1922), which depicts a world seemingly devoid of meaning. Not only can the influence of the Yoga Sutras be seen in the poetic form, style, and voice of The Waste Land and in the explanatory notes to the poem provided by Eliot ...

Postwar Churches Of Christ Mission Work: The Philippines As A Case Study, Brady Kal Cox

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

There was a large increase in the number of Churches of Christ missionaries and missionary efforts following World War II (WWII). There were also significant changes and developments in American religious culture following WWII—Churches of Christ were not exempt from these changes. This study examines the question of how postwar developments in American religion influenced missionary efforts of American Churches of Christ by looking at examples of American missionaries in the Philippines.

The study relies heavily on primary sources, including letters and news reports from archival collections, Churches of Christ periodicals, and email correspondence with people familiar with the ...

I'D Strike The Son If He Insulted Me: Milton's And Melville's Flawed Revolutionaries, Benjamin Platt

Honors Theses AY 17/18

John Milton and Herman Melville, despite 184 years and an ocean of separation, created two of Western literature’s grandest rebels in Satan and Ahab. I propose that these two characters are blueprints for a literary type, that of the fallen revolutionary. Both assert their own equality and try to overthrow the power structures that they feel oppress them in their respective settings, but both, instead of destroying the inequality that drove them to rebel, betray their own cause and comrades by serving only themselves. Both Milton and Melville advocated for increasing political democratization within their societies; Milton fought against ...

Effect Of Root Cause Analysis On Pre-Licensure, Senior-Level Nursing Students’ Safe Medication Administration Practices, Kristi Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine if student nurse participation in root cause analysis has the potential to reduce harm to patients from medication errors by increasing student nurse sensitivity to signal and responder bias.

Background: Schools of nursing have traditionally relied on strategies that focus on individual characteristics and responsibility to prevent harm to patients. The modern patient safety movement encourages utilization of systems theory strategies like Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The Patient Risk Detection Theory (Despins, Scott-Cawiezell, & Rouder, 2010) supports the use of nurse training to reduce harm to patients.

Method. Descriptive and inferential analyses of the demographic and major study variables were conducted. Validity and reliability assessments for the instruments were performed.

The Safe Administration of Medications-Revised Scale (Bravo, 2014) was used to measure sensitivity to signal. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ; Sexton et al., 2006) was used to assess responder bias; this was the first use of this instrument ...

Tracing Moral Injury In Us Wars And Implications For The Year 2050, Robert A. Jensen

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Throughout conflicts in history, the psycho-spiritual construct known today as “moral injury” can be found. This term was coined in 1994 out of conceptions of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to describe intense shame and guilt aspects resulting from military service. The challenge comes with extrapolating this injury in the wake of nuances in terminology about related symptoms in conjunction with an evolving consciousness in identifying invisible military-related injuries. With current research and a historic pattern of unnamed moral injuries, this study explores the following: How did military chaplains address moral injuries without this construct? What are Unitarian Universalist (UU) military ...

School Of Music Faculty Newsletter, May 2018, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Rights And Rites: Revolution, Performance, Gender, And Religion In British Novels Of The 1790s, Jamie T. Smith

Dissertations

This dissertation explores the intersections between gendered and religious identity in British novels of the 1790s that engage in revolutionary ideology and rhetoric. My work engages with two dominant cultural-historical narratives in eighteenth-century scholarship: first, the argument that the provenance of modern identity categories can be traced to the revolutionary period and the concomitant emergence of the rights-bearing individual and the bourgeois public sphere; and second, the secularization narrative that elides religion from a consideration of modern identity. Since religion is often positioned as antithetical to reason and the emancipating ideals of the Enlightenment, religion as a category of identity ...

"Perhaps No One General Answer Will Do": Cotton Mather's Commentary On The Synoptic Gospels In "Biblia Americana", Grace Sara Harwood

English Dissertations

The Bible began to lose its privileged place in Western society when skeptics found its contradictions irreconcilable. Cotton Mather (1663-1728) witnessed the integration of radical ideas into mainstream hermeneutics and attempted to respond honestly in his “Biblia Americana.” Although Mather never left New England, his exegesis was shaped almost entirely by European radicalism and its conservative responses. His remarks on the Synoptic Gospels reveal that as he tried to weigh radical arguments objectively, so he often accepted the radical conclusions that undermined the Bible’s authority. While Mather seemingly did not recognize the significance of the concessions he made, examination ...

Hard Times In The Big Easy: The Medical, Social, And Political Effects Of The Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1853 In New Orleans, Molly Iker

Voces Novae

From May to October 1853, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, battled a terrifying epidemic of yellow fever. This paper examines the spread of the disease, the death toll as the epidemic continued, and the political, medical, and social effects of this particular epidemic. Several thousand individuals succumbed to yellow fever between May 28 and October 8, 1853, and over 8,000 of these died. The medical, political, and social views on yellow fever varied by region, but all held that it was a mysterious and terrifying disease that carried off an excessive number of individuals. The 1853 yellow fever ...

Visions Of Indecency: The Intersection Between The Church And Prostitution In Augsburg, Rome, And Southwark From The Twelfth To Seventeenth Century Ce, Samantha Leahy

Young Historians Conference

The following research paper endeavors to present and enhance knowledge on the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and prostitution across Italy, England, and Germany from the 12th to the 17th century CE. The paper traces the Church’s opinion of reluctant tolerance prostitution to openly condemning it and argues that this ecclesiastical shift can be traced to various syphilitic breakouts that occurred in association with the Columbian Exchange and the growing popularity of Prostitute Reform Houses. The paper argues that these aspects of European history, in conjunction with the increased influence of Protestant Reformers in the 16th century, expedited ...

The Lantern 2009, Interdenominational Theological Center

Interdenominational Theological Center, The Lantern

No abstract provided.

You Are What You Eat: The Grimke´-Weld Family And The Graham Diet, Ilana Gabrielle Newman

Honors Theses - All

This thesis will explore the dietary theories of Sylvester Graham and how they were practiced by the Grimke´-Welds, a family of abolitionists. To Graham and his adherents, a diet was connected to the idea of living a good life, which implied spirituality, morality, and especially, a social conscience. The desire to eat was driven by more than merely taste or possible health benefits. The moral and political implications were just as important. Thus, through his dietary theories, Graham visualized a means to the ideal civilization. For this reason, abolitionists and radicals like the Grimke´-Welds found the Graham diet ...

Brook Farm: The Shortcomings Of A Transcendentalist Utopia, Max Samuel Horowitz

Honors Theses - All

In the spring of 1841, George Ripley, a former Unitarian minister, began his experiment, Brook Farm. The Transcendentalist utopia was intended to be an agricultural and educational institution in which its members would live and work together harmoniously. While the Brook Farmers were able to create a great deal of interest in their project, they were never able to draw the support of key members of the Unitarian and Transcendentalist communities. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s inability to support his friend?s experiment points to the contradiction between the Transcendentalist philosophy and Brook Farm?s structure. However, Emerson was willing to ...

Adoption Contracts And Deals As Plan B Parenthood, Martha M. Ertman

Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

Officially, law bans adoption contracts as baby-selling. But law professor Martha Ertman shows that people routinely enter entirely legal adoption contracts. Moreover, those contracts, and the mini-contracts that she calls “deals” help birth and adoptive families tailor the agreements to their situation. Blending memoir and law, Ertman integrates small group exercises with law and history of American adoption agreements, arguing that a contractual framework treats types of adoption as variations of family form, Plan B options when circumstances block the most common -- Plan A -- form of parenthood.

Inventory Of California Land Pamphlets In Hornbeck Collection

California Land Pamphlet Inventory

A document with active links that lists the content of the California Land Pamphlets found in nine volumes, plus three additional publications.