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If: Poems From The Unstandardized Perspective, Douglas Pietrzak '05
If: Poems From The Unstandardized Perspective, Douglas Pietrzak '05
Honors Projects
When I was about six years old, I used to read a new sports book every week. The protagonist was always a five to twelve-year-old boy who was slightly dorky and had a minor quirk. Maybe he counted the number of seams on a baseball every morning, had an imaginary pet goldfish, or only wore blue shoes. He was also imaginative and interested in sports, most often baseball, but sometimes soccer. The boy usually went through a series of trials -raising money by painting a fence, helping his grandparents move to a new house, or teaching his little sister to …
Climbing Down The Ladder: Inwardness And Abstraction In Wittgenstein's Philosophy With Reference To Kierkegaard, Lisa Hoelle '05
Climbing Down The Ladder: Inwardness And Abstraction In Wittgenstein's Philosophy With Reference To Kierkegaard, Lisa Hoelle '05
Honors Projects
Both Soren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that there are some truths, located beyond the boundaries of rational understanding, which cannot be communicated directly to others. Wittgenstein was influenced by his reading of Kierkegaard's texts on these matters, and accordingly he, like Kierkegaard, has a place in his philosophy for the importance of inwardness in knowing paradoxical truths. A move of 'inwardness,' for Kierkegaard, is an action that requires a personal and absolute belief that can't be explained directly to others, while 'paradoxical truths', as Kierkegaard uses the phrase, refers to propositions that we regard as incomprehensible but true (one …
Hume's Objection To The Thomistic Doctrine On Suicide, Emily M. Kelahan '05
Hume's Objection To The Thomistic Doctrine On Suicide, Emily M. Kelahan '05
Honors Projects
In "Of Suicide," David Hume argues against the dominant Thomistic doctrine on suicide. Thomas Aquinas, in Summa Theologica, I-IL Q64, Art 5, argues that suicide is morally impermissible because it violates three kinds of duties: one's duty to God, to others, and to oneself. Arguing from within the Thomistic framework, Hume exposes the inconsistencies of Aquinas's theory and refutes Aquinas's arguments against suicide. In this paper I look at only the arguments concerning the ways in which suicide violates a duty to God. My strategy is as follows. First, I argue that G.R. McLean's interpretation of Hume in his paper …
Building A Viable Muslim Community In Central Illinois: The Development And Implementation Of Acculturation Strategies At The Islamic Center Of Bloomington-Normal, Daniel Glade '05
Building A Viable Muslim Community In Central Illinois: The Development And Implementation Of Acculturation Strategies At The Islamic Center Of Bloomington-Normal, Daniel Glade '05
Honors Projects
Developments in the American Muslim community over the last thirty years reveal a notable shift from individualist responses towards the exigencies of survival in a hostile foreign environment to a more community-based attempt to build a viable and lively Islamic environment in the United States. This shift was made possible by three factors including the expansion of Westem Islam through immigration and conversion in recent years, changing American popular attitudes towards Muslims, and developments abroad-particularly in the native countries of immigrant communities. Although responses to changing conditions vary both geographically and situationally, most Muslim communities have responded with some form …
Textual Possession: Manipulating Narratives In Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction, Kieran Ayton
Textual Possession: Manipulating Narratives In Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction, Kieran Ayton
Honors Projects
Examines the mechanisms through which Collins updated the gothic novel to create the sensation novel, with particular emphasis on The Woman in White, The Law and the Lady, and The Haunted Hotel. Highlights Collins's use of transgressive gender characterization, whereby his main characters use documents to gain social power over other characters. Describes the influence of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, on The Woman in White.
Normative Failure In Blackburn's Ruling Passions, William R. Porter '05
Normative Failure In Blackburn's Ruling Passions, William R. Porter '05
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In Ruling Passions, Simon Blackburn advances an ethical theory that welds his quasi-realism to a Humean-Smithean theory of moral sentiments. This paper concerns the latter Humean side of Blackburn's theory, specifically Blackburn's attempt to provide a normative ethical theory. This attempt largely involves getting over the tallest obstacle to any defender of Hume: the famous sensible knave problem.
Arabian Nights (The Framing Of Sherazade), Alison Daigle '05
Arabian Nights (The Framing Of Sherazade), Alison Daigle '05
Honors Projects
This script is the result of a three-month devising process that took place between January and March of 2005, directed by Alison Daigle and advised by Sara Freeman. The original performances (with the actresses listed above) took place on April 2 and 3, 2005, at the Phoenix Theatre on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. Activate the player by clicking above.
Entre Etre Et Devenir La Recherche De L'Identité Dans Trois Romans Maghrébins, Ariana Giles '05
Entre Etre Et Devenir La Recherche De L'Identité Dans Trois Romans Maghrébins, Ariana Giles '05
Honors Projects
Les Maghrébins sont toujours en train de négocier leur identité à cause des lésions laissées par l'ère coloniale. Pour les occidentaux, l'expérience d'un choc culturel et d'une crise d'identité sont amenés par un voyage. La plupart les occidentaux ont le choix (c'est-à-dire ils peuvent voyager ou non) et risquer le choc culturel et la crise d'identité qui les accompagnent. Par contre, le choc culturel et la crise d'identité sont imposées aux maghrébins. La colonialisation et la pression de l'assimilation produisent un choc culturel et une crise d'identité impossibles à éviter. Au moins pour les maghrébins qui avait plus de contact …