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Why The Greater Good Is Good: Lessons From Harry Potter, Maureen Zach
Why The Greater Good Is Good: Lessons From Harry Potter, Maureen Zach
Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research
For me, this paper was an opportunity to bring Harry Potter into academia by evaluating a serious moral and philosophical concept, the greater good, with J.K. Rowling’s beloved series. In the end, we see that society could do well to learn from Harry’s selflessness in working for the greater good.
Care Of The Self And The Will To Freedom: Michel Foucault, Critique And Ethics, Stephanie M. Batters
Care Of The Self And The Will To Freedom: Michel Foucault, Critique And Ethics, Stephanie M. Batters
Senior Honors Projects
Care of the Self and the Will to Freedom
Stephanie Batters
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English
What do subjectivity, power and ethics have in common? For French philosopher Michel Foucault, each of these concepts inherently resides within the others. His works, spanning from the mid-1950s to his death in 1984, offer a profound theoretical approach to the complex questions that obtain between the individual and society. Foucault’s works present careful and intricate theories about the relationships of the past with the present, the individual with society, and power with truth. Many of his writings explore how the individual is made …
Feminism In Action: Does Simone De Beauvoir’S Life Reflect Her Philosophy?, Anna K. Grindy
Feminism In Action: Does Simone De Beauvoir’S Life Reflect Her Philosophy?, Anna K. Grindy
The Trinity Papers (2011 - present)
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