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Tragedy And Transcendence: Tracing Tragedy From Early Modernity To Present, William J. Giancola '12
Tragedy And Transcendence: Tracing Tragedy From Early Modernity To Present, William J. Giancola '12
College Honors Program
This thesis will examine six “tragedies” spanning the Renaissance and Modern epochs and attempt to trace the narrative of tragic consciousness as this consciousness expands to include new forms, symbols, and modes of expression. Additionally, this thesis will attempt to parse the kind of relationship tragedy has with transcendence and seek to understand – and ultimately judge – whether each of the texts examined herein is properly “tragic” as opposed to ironic, pessimistic, nihilistic, merely cynical, or merely existential.
Between Capitalism And Socialism: Religion And Distributive Justice, Nicole Guarnieri '12
Between Capitalism And Socialism: Religion And Distributive Justice, Nicole Guarnieri '12
College Honors Program
Takes up the issue of “devout Catholics” who seem to have forgotten the significance of traditional Catholic ethics, or obligations to society as a whole. Capitalism is the most appropriate economic system, however this thesis will re-address ethics and morality in relation to our current situation, because capitalism today is lacking something that the capitalism of Adam Smith was not.