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Utopian And Dystopian Theories On Property, Cheryl Cowles Poe
Utopian And Dystopian Theories On Property, Cheryl Cowles Poe
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The selected works of Plato, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell revealed intriguing political theories on property (liberty) from a utopian and dystopian point of view. The theorists formed new social orders by abolishing various kinds of property. For the most part, their arguments for destroying property were defended by presenting a cure for an existing problem and then sustained through education, psychological conditioning, social and genetic engineering and so on. Common themes and differences were found between the utopian and dystopian theories and among the individual societies as well.
Human Love And Divine Love: The Platonic Matrix In C.S. Lewis, Laura Case
Human Love And Divine Love: The Platonic Matrix In C.S. Lewis, Laura Case
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A comparison of the writings of Plato and C.S. Lewis reveals a common idea that human love is not sufficient for man. An examination of Plato’s Symposium and Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and The Four Loves, in particular, shows that both writers illustrate that man must ascend the ladder of love in order to meet the source of all love: Divine Love. Concerned with man’s innate needs and ethics, both Plato and Lewis argue that there is a universal principle of goodness known to all men of all cultures. Lewis argues, especially in The Abolition of Man, that man …