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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Freedom Of The Will With Deterministic Opposition, R. Ward Dunphy
Freedom Of The Will With Deterministic Opposition, R. Ward Dunphy
Bachelors’ Theses
In our thesis on freedom of the will it is necessary to select a meaning that will make the issue clear, unambiguous and sharply joined. Our discussion will be of no value if the term "freedom of the will" is not clearly understood. The method employed will be to define the term •freedom", the term "will" and then the combined issue "freedom of the will". The purpose of this form will be to clearly enunciate the terms of the proposition, thus offering a com non meeting ground for the discussion. "Freedom" is defined as an absence from any factor, the …
Creative Education, Clara K. Sterk
Creative Education, Clara K. Sterk
Bachelors’ Theses
How can we expect to know and understand, much less enjoy the real child in the atmosphere of rigid formality of the traditional school? By stressing the acquisition of knowledge and information, the development of skills and habits, an appeal is made only to the child’s intellectual nature. Thus, we overlook the fact that the child is a personality with more than a memory side; that he is a being com¬ posed of a body and a soul, a mind and a will, which must be trained if he is to live a full life. For the complete realization of …
Geography And The Problem Method As Applied To The Adolescent, Gertrude Gede
Geography And The Problem Method As Applied To The Adolescent, Gertrude Gede
Bachelors’ Theses
Authorities agree that a working knowledge of geography is necessary in the life of everybody. When this knowledge can best be obtained, where it can best be obtained and how it can best be obtained have been the ever recurrent questions among schoolmen throughout all ages. What constitutes this knowledge and what part of this knowledge is essential to the everyday and workaday life of an individual have been much mooted questions. Everyone is agreed that the only worthwhile knowledge is that which remains a part of his life experiences and which carries over into life as a means of …
Life Of Cicero Based On His Works, Elizabeth Frances Diedrich
Life Of Cicero Based On His Works, Elizabeth Frances Diedrich
Bachelors’ Theses
The biographies of' Cicero are nearly as numerour as his works. Most of these, however, are merely imitations of the first biographies ever written. It often appears that Cicero was a vain man because of his boasting manner. This, however, can be accounted for on the ground that he was a "novus homo" and accordingly was forced to remind the people of his great deed in order to keep them before their eyes. This boastful attitude, besides . serving his.purpose; aids us in discovering the events of the orator's life as found in his own works . Traces of his …
Early Influences On John Henry Cardinal Newman, Anastasia E. Garvey
Early Influences On John Henry Cardinal Newman, Anastasia E. Garvey
Bachelors’ Theses
John Henry Cardinal Newman was one of the outstanding leaders in the Oxford Movement of 1833. His services to the Catholic Church have been gratefully acknowledged by the Catholic world. He holds a place among England's literary geniuses for his contributions to English literature.
An Insight Into The Human Interest Stories Of The Daily Newspaper, Marjory H. Shong
An Insight Into The Human Interest Stories Of The Daily Newspaper, Marjory H. Shong
Bachelors’ Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the importance of the human interest feature as a distinctive branch of feature writing and to study the various types and methods under this category. The method used was a daily appraisal of the local newspapers, a perusal of a certain collection of feature articles and an additional study of various texts on the subject.
A Criticism Of Hume's Analysis Of Causation, Gilbert C. Wittig
A Criticism Of Hume's Analysis Of Causation, Gilbert C. Wittig
Bachelors’ Theses
The question of cause and effect is an interesting and important one. Upon it and its interpretation many philosophers have argued. Some have said that cause and effect are considered together because of custom, but most of them have declared. the existence of a necessary connection between the two. Among the former is David Hume, an English philosopher of the eighteenth century; among the latter are classed most of the great philosophers of all times, including Plato and Aristotle, St. Thomas and St. Augustine. Indeed, if all of the latter were put side by side the line would be of …
Evolution And Ethics: A Discussion Of The Ethical Theories Of The Evolution Philosophers, Wilbur E. Kearney
Evolution And Ethics: A Discussion Of The Ethical Theories Of The Evolution Philosophers, Wilbur E. Kearney
Bachelors’ Theses
It is indeed unfortunate that our mental make-up is so prone to accept as fact whatever appeals to it as novel and plausible. We are, it is true, rational beings but it is just as true that we accept without due consideration and study, any theory which has but a scintilla of truth and a majority of appeal, if that theory is new to us and has embodied in it, something interesting and fanciful. In our quest for modernity, we often overlook or fail to appreciate the fundamental truths of antiquity. And very often, what we think is new, is …
The Real Causes Of The Death Of Socrates, Casimir F. Hojnacki
The Real Causes Of The Death Of Socrates, Casimir F. Hojnacki
Bachelors’ Theses
Among the men of Pagan antiquity none stand higher mentally nor morally than Socrates. His colossal genius has yet to be equaled. His life was above reproach though his views at times were influenced by the beliefs of the age. He worked for his people, but they appreciated him not. Finally indicted by his enemies, tried and sentenced to death, his last moments were an epitome and a climax of his life. Was he guilty? It is well to sea whether the charges were true or what the real causes of his death were.
The Educational Value Of Christian Doctrine, M. Scholastica Walters
The Educational Value Of Christian Doctrine, M. Scholastica Walters
Bachelors’ Theses
This short thesis is offered with the hope of strengthening the belief that there can be no true education without moral training, and that the moral training without the religious is incomplete, and at times even proves baneful. It is incomplete in as much as vices lead to undermine the physical constitution and to blind the intellect, weaken the faculties and harden the heart; baneful, for intellectual development, without morality, may become a snare and a temptation to virtue.
A Philosophical Dissertation On The Origin Of Ideas With Special Reference To Aristotle, Marion Thomas Lucareli
A Philosophical Dissertation On The Origin Of Ideas With Special Reference To Aristotle, Marion Thomas Lucareli
Bachelors’ Theses
The object of our inquiry is to investigate the Theory of Knowledge, or as it is better known; The Origin of Ideas. We shall investigate the existence, the origin, and the nature of the universal ideas. We shall determine whether these ideas are founded on the order of existing beings, or whether they are purely a mental construction having no objectivity.
Safety Education In The Elementary School, Julia Alice Sheehan
Safety Education In The Elementary School, Julia Alice Sheehan
Bachelors’ Theses
In modern civilization we find numerous and varied hazards, without a sufficient knowledge to combat the startling increase of accidents caused by these hazards. In the United States six per cent to the deaths are due to carelessness. The number of American soldiers, who made the supreme sacrifice in Europe during the nineteen months that our country was in the World War, was 77,118. Statistics of the United States Census Bureau show, in the death registration area of the United States during the twelve months of the year 1920, the number of violent deaths, exclusive of suicide, was 68,697. According …
The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage
The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage
Bachelors’ Theses
During the paet two decades the sports section of the modern newspaper has become an item of almost vital importance to the average American reader. Athletics are becoming such an integral part of our lives that interest today is universal. No doubt the World War gave athletics a tremendous impetous but in our scheme of things, that interest has a sounder foundation. Interest in athletics is fostered in the grammar school and carried on throughout high school and college life. This interest is indicated by the marked attention the world gives today to any athletic contest of importance, whether it …
The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage
The Rise And Progress Of The Sports Edition Of The Modern Newspaper, James M. Savage
Bachelors’ Theses
During the past two decades the sports section of the modern newspaper has become an item of almost vital importance to the average American reader. Athletics are becoming such an integral part of our lives that interest today is universal. No doubt the World War gave athletics a tremendous impetous but in our scheme of things, that interest has a sounder foundation. Interest in athletics is fostered in the grammar school and carried on throughout high school and college life. This interest is indicated by the marked attention the world gives today to any athletic contest of importance, whether it …
Spiritism, Ralph B. Lenz
Spiritism, Ralph B. Lenz
Bachelors’ Theses
In the study of modern Spiritism, one is face to face with a huge collection of facts, phenomena, theories, and frauds. To sift the worthwhile grains of truth from this heap is really a difficult task. Countless books and pamphlets there are in existence today that give us all manner of information relative to Spiritism. They contain descriptions and explanations of the various phenomena produced at sceances; they put forth the religious doctrines of the Spiritists; they expose fraudulent practices at tires; and usually they advance a few theories on the subject.
Effective Editorials, Leonard Scheller
Effective Editorials, Leonard Scheller
Bachelors’ Theses
During the last fifty years journalism has seen a steady decline of the influence of the editorial. The golden age of the editorial existed during the Civil War period, at the time when journalism was still personal instead of institutional as it is today. Among the writers of that period were Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana, Henrey J. Raymond, Joseph Medill and Henry Watterson. These writers were specially effective because they enjoyed a nation-wide reading public due to the fact that the west and the middle west were still undeveloped regions for leadership in thought they turned to the writers …
Optimism Versus Pessimism, James F. Chapman
Optimism Versus Pessimism, James F. Chapman
Bachelors’ Theses
All that promotes success, welfare, or happiness is included in the ideal good. If human beings value their lives and the lives of others; take pride in development and progress-in short, if they consider life worth living, as good, as the best thing for them; they nay be called optimists.
The Teleological Argument For The Existence Of God, Louis A. Wilson
The Teleological Argument For The Existence Of God, Louis A. Wilson
Bachelors’ Theses
After all, the mystic's position is not wholly unintelligible. For while his imagination serves him as an immediate perceptive faculty with which he sees God in his every glance at the universe, his view is not without a philosophical basis. It is from the data furnished us by the universe of our experience that Natural Theology is able to arrive at the knowledge of the existence of God. In doing so it may employ either of three ·types of arguments. If it begins with a consideration of the primary attributes proper to all finite beings as such, it is metaphysical; …
Source Of Moral Obligation, B. Eugene Hibner
Source Of Moral Obligation, B. Eugene Hibner
Bachelors’ Theses
The question of the source of moral obligation is one over which great conflicts arise, and concerning which the various schools vary widely. There actually are two possible theories:- the Scholastic theory, which claims that the source of moral obligation is the necessary will of God; and the Rationalistic school, which makes reason, whether individual or of the universal substance, the source of obligation. Kantian Ethics, the foremost of the rationalistic ethics, advocates "practical reason as the source of obligation." However, there are many sub-theories concerning this question of obligation, but we find that they are influenced to a great …
Possibilities Of Character Formation In Our Public Schools, Julia I. Shinnick
Possibilities Of Character Formation In Our Public Schools, Julia I. Shinnick
Bachelors’ Theses
The end of all education should be the formation of character. Father Hull defines character as "life dominated by principles". No sentence containing four words expresses more food for thought. Life is made up of thoughts, words, and actions. The problem is how are these thoughts, words, and actions determined? The man without character acts upon impulse and he speaks and acts as these impulses seize him. If such a man's life is at all consistent it is because he lacks any originality or initiative to do otherwise. His character depends upon his impulses, or upon the good or bad …
Childhood Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century, Kathryn L. Welch
Childhood Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century, Kathryn L. Welch
Bachelors’ Theses
It is the happy voices and sweet faces of children that gladden life, for they give a spirit of youth to everything and their wistful joy and sense of wonder, their simplicity and trustfulness, their winning ways and innocent mirth, help to make others in the world hopeful and happy too.
The Care Of Old Age In Wisconsin, Eugenia Leone Schmitz
The Care Of Old Age In Wisconsin, Eugenia Leone Schmitz
Bachelors’ Theses
With the changes and. advances made in the industrial system in the past hundred years caused by the rapid spread of the industrial revolution and the growth of the modern factory system, we find the question and problem of the care of the aged increasingly more difficult to solve than it was before this time. In the days of tribal life the aged were looked upon as men of wisdom; they were honored and were given first consideration for their comfort. In the days of the guild system, the old tradesman and artisan worked as long as he was able …
Mothers’ Pensions, Annette E. Schmidt
Mothers’ Pensions, Annette E. Schmidt
Bachelors’ Theses
Man gradually recedes from his primitive forefathers and in like proportion he recedes from his barbaric days. With this recession as the centuries passed man adopted a kindlier and more humane attitude toward his fellow man; he no longer hanged his neighbor for stealing a kerchief, nor placed him in stocks for public ridicule. Man has come to realize that other men are also human beings with the same tendencies and emotions. The equality of man was definitely expressed in the Declaration of Independence, "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable …
The Development Of Character Education, Evelyn M. Shaughnessy
The Development Of Character Education, Evelyn M. Shaughnessy
Bachelors’ Theses
All down through the Christian years of Civilization the ultimate end of all education has been the production of men and women of character and high ideals. Then as the rush and commercialism of modern times swept upon us, this real end of education seemed to be overshadowed in the search for mere information.
Cause: Our Idea Of Cause Has Objective Reality, Edward Kazimierz Latocha
Cause: Our Idea Of Cause Has Objective Reality, Edward Kazimierz Latocha
Bachelors’ Theses
If we are to know things about us, there must be reasons for them. We must be able to answer the question, why is it? Our answer to this question will give us the sufficient reason for the thing. Taking for granted that things about us can be and are known, we arrive at the self evident principle that everything that is, has a sufficient reason for its being. Since reality comprises the possible and the actual beings, there must be reasons for the possibility of the possible and reasons for the existence of the actual. The reason for the …
Formation Of Ideas, Clarence Tennessen
Formation Of Ideas, Clarence Tennessen
Bachelors’ Theses
MAN! What a masterpiece of creation! What a wonder of wonders! In composition how harmonious, how singular! Regarded from merely a mechanical viewpoint, the human body is so infinitely complex, so harmonious, so responsive, so delicate and yet so powerful, that all wonders of nature dwarf in comparison. Our huge buildings and beautiful edifices all fade into insignificance when compared to that edifice of Man. The charming splendor and thrilling beauty of nature, of her snowcapped mountains, her warbling streams, her thundering falls and her mighty canyons that defy description, grow placid when compared to Man. Thus, Man stands alone.
Character Building Through Literature, Mary Ignatia Wiesner
Character Building Through Literature, Mary Ignatia Wiesner
Bachelors’ Theses
To make straight the paths for the poets, and the critics, the terms literature and character shall be defined, the extent, as well as the limitation, of the influence of literature on character outlined, and a method of approach to the study of literature discussed. First, then, there will be a discussion of terms, then the opinions of writers on the moral values of literature, and finally, in the light of this discussion, this paper will attempt to show whether these writers claim more for literature than it actually can and does accomplish, and just how literature can be made …
Historical Development And Present Status Of Education For Crippled Children, Lucile A. Wallace
Historical Development And Present Status Of Education For Crippled Children, Lucile A. Wallace
Bachelors’ Theses
The new science of history is not so much interested in past events as it is in the record of the developing capacity of the human mind to transform its own experiences into the things which are valuable to the advancement of the human race. In this process of scientific transformation, education has played, through the ages, a most prominent part; and educators, assuming this interpretative role in the drama of life, have produced the modern science of learning. It seems highly important, therefore, that the historical steps in the development of corrective and special education be given, and that …
Free Will Versus Determinism, Alfred Joseph Biagi
Free Will Versus Determinism, Alfred Joseph Biagi
Bachelors’ Theses
Philosophy stretching down from the time of Thales its father, who lived in the sixth century B.C. has continuously grappled with problems of man and the universe. Almost from its very beginnings speculation arose over the question of human freedom -- resulting in the overlasting contest between determinist and libertarian -- a contest which is becoming more and more acute with the modern developments in physical and mental science.
Is Death The End?, Edward T. O'Neill
Is Death The End?, Edward T. O'Neill
Bachelors’ Theses
In asking the great question, Is death the end, I understand that I am entering upon the very specific inquiry at to whether death is the end of ourselves as separate and distinct individualities. In discussing immortality, I assume that I am discussing the survival of the human soul, after the dissolution of the body, in the full retention of its conscious identity. In this I follow the same interpretation of the essential problem involved that Professor Josiah Royce lays down in his "The Conception of Immortality."