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Globalization And The Sex Trafficking Industry: Examination Of Effects On Regional Value Chain Operations, Mary R. Gilbertson
Globalization And The Sex Trafficking Industry: Examination Of Effects On Regional Value Chain Operations, Mary R. Gilbertson
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
The purpose of this paper is to examine sex trafficking as a profitable, international, and illegal industry. One goal of this paper is to explain what sex trafficking is and how it differs from other industries. Sex trafficking is an underground activity and its growth worldwide since the 1980s has had a destructive impact on global societies and economies. Beyond this, the study wants to show that, aside from moral and socio-cultural implications, that sex trafficking is indeed an industry, with a structure not so different from other industries. Understanding sex trafficking as an industry is critical to understanding how …
Language Speaks: Heidegger's Understanding Of Language, Jason Barrett
Language Speaks: Heidegger's Understanding Of Language, Jason Barrett
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
The central task of my thesis, entitled "Language Speaks: Heidegger on Language," is to bring to light an understanding of language found in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger (18898-1976). This understanding was rendered by a textual exegesis of three difficult texts from Heidegger's corpus: Being and Time (1929), "On the Essence of Truth" (1930), and "Hoelderlin and the Essence of Poetry" (1936). The reading of Being and Time (up to section 34) provided the grounding for the discussions on truth and language by situating Heidegger with regard to the problem of Being an language, articulating Heidegger's foundational thought, and identifying …
A Look At Kabbalah, Scott M. Wellman
Elie Wiesel: Moral Action In An Immoral World, Christopher R. Johnson
Elie Wiesel: Moral Action In An Immoral World, Christopher R. Johnson
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
The essay, "Elie Wiesel: Moral Action in an Immoral World," is an investigation into the three ways Elie Wiesel's characters in his novel The Town Beyond the Wall deal with their own often painful and confusing views of the absurd world about them. Because The Town Beyond the Wall is a very autobiographical work for Wiesel, the backdrop of chaos found in the novel--the concentration camps, the death of the main character's father, mother and sister, the cold indifference with which the rest of the world watched as the Jews were 'liquidated'--are found in Wiesel's world too. Reading Wiesel's works, …
Ethics And The Awareness Of Complex Individuals: Reflections On Adolf Eichmann And Oskar Schindler, Glen Tautges
Ethics And The Awareness Of Complex Individuals: Reflections On Adolf Eichmann And Oskar Schindler, Glen Tautges
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
Like many philosophers who favor Aristotelian virtue ethics over more legalistic and impersonal theories like those of Kant and Mill, I claim that ethics is more a matter of cultivating the right character than of living by a set of rules based on abstract principles. True to this stance, I present a certain attitude toward others as crucial to living well. This attitude involves cultivating a powerful awareness of the intricate complexity of other people and a deep appreciation of the value of such complex beings. Also with this attitude comes a sense of relation and community inspired by our …
Nietzsche And Daly: Sparks Of Friendship A Study Of Nietzschean Thought In Daly's Early Works, Pete Costello
Nietzsche And Daly: Sparks Of Friendship A Study Of Nietzschean Thought In Daly's Early Works, Pete Costello
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
This thesis studied the possible Nietzschean influences upon or parallels within the early works of Mary Daly, radical feminist philosopher. To this end, the thesis first tried encapsulate Nietzschean thought in the discussion of the eternal recurrence, the will-to-power and self-overcoming. Then it proceeded to discuss Mary Daly's self-described project of moving beyond the patriarchal structures of the Catholic church and society as a whole. And finally, while it avoided questions of Nietzsche's alleged misogyny, this study outlined possible points of light between a particular feminist project and the ""lasting"" value of Nietzschean philosophy. The end result was not an …
Edmund Husserl's Crisis : A Critique Of Modernity And A Phenomenology Of History, John Cords
Edmund Husserl's Crisis : A Critique Of Modernity And A Phenomenology Of History, John Cords
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
This thesis is an explication and analysis of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology as he presents it is his last work, The Crisis. I do a page-by-page reading of this work and explain such topics as what the crisis itself actually is, how it came about, and what Husserl sees as a way out of this crisis. This involves, for Husserl, an analysis of modernity as arising from the thought of Descartes and the physical science of Galileo. Within this, the rapid development of technology and the theoretical science is explained and interpreted. Husserl sees these great advancements as giving rise to …
Plato's Divided Line And A Mythical Mode Of Knowledge, Dorothy Hageman
Plato's Divided Line And A Mythical Mode Of Knowledge, Dorothy Hageman
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
My thesis is a discussion of Plato's divided line with a special concentration on the fourth level of knowledge. First, the discussion centers on gaining an understanding of the divided line and what Plato says about the method of attaining fourth level knowledge. Second, I show the four levels of the line in two of Plato's dialogues, the Republic and the Phaedrus. The first three levels match the description of them that Plato gives in the divided line, but instead of finding what Plato describes for the fourth level we find a myth. Finally, I discuss how the myth takes …
Heidegger And The Wander Of Poetry, John T. Pollard
Heidegger And The Wander Of Poetry, John T. Pollard
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
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David Hume: A Philosopher Discovered, Steven Viner
David Hume: A Philosopher Discovered, Steven Viner
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
No abstract provided.