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Senior Essays from 2024
Macbeth, A Horror Story, Sasha Kerievsky
The Personal Soul Meets the Common Understanding, the Role of Language in Relationships, Peter Marlett
The Concept of Empathy, with Continual Reference to Edith Stein, Hegel, and Dostoevsky, Richard Trinh
Senior Essays from 2023
Make Me Yours: Socratic Eros in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, Silas Clifford Boland
Heroism's Journey: What It Means to Be a Hero from Homer to Dostoevsky, Padraig D. Fournier
The Escherian Moral Odyssey: An Enquiry into the Enigma of Ethics, Molly Gilbert
E Pluribus Unum: an Examination of Destructive Dissonance in the American Character as Observed by Alexis de Tocqueville, Samantha Perry Grijalva
Sympathetic Vibrations: The Power of Music in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Juliana Angelica Kunst
Judgment of Paragons: Storytelling and the Divinity of Virtues in Aristotle and The New Testament, Gabriel Manibusan
Love and Vision: Revealing the Five Greek Loves in War and Peace, Demi Schwartz
Seeing and Being Seen: An Exploration into Humanization in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Katherine Shirk
Senior Essays from 2022
Knowledge as Demonstrated in Plato’s Theaetetus, Owen Chapman
A Divine Wager: Understanding the Book of Job, Jonathan Dianda
The Oratorical and Rhetorical Prowess of Malcolm X's Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Sam Dixon
The Applied Power of Thumos in Rhetoric, Colin Feldmeth
The Importance of Divine Misconceptions, Anthony Horne
The Role of the Mechanical Demonstration, Jillian Hubbard
Harmony and Unity, Stuart Jones
Freeing Plato’s Auxiliaries, Michael Lopez
Rousseau’s Pursuit of Happiness: The Savage Man Versus The Civil Man, Kayla Mahoney
The Gospel of John Illuminating the Old Testament, Mark Mellon
Rousseauian Reversals and Literary Morsels, Camilla Patterson
Telemachus, Joseph Petermann
What is Alawed?, Ioannis Pitcock
Rousseau’s Conception of Language and its Relation to Social Inequality, Evan Rodrigues
Interrelation of Women and Power in Virgil's Aeneid, Arabella Romero
Eros, Irony and Wisdom, William Roush
Making sense of Life’s Evils, Teresa Silveira
The Death of a Philosopher, Anthony Spezzano
Senior Essays from 2021
Guilty for All, Before All: An Examination on Suffering as Permitted by God, Jordan Barcena
Poiesis and History: The Significance of Show and Tell When Understanding History, Spencer Bruno
First Things First, Isaac Choi
Two P’s in a Pod: Plato’s Metaphysics & Poetic Truth, Damian J. Cortez
Foutsism: A 21st Century PhilosophyMira-Magnum Facinusism, Jack Fouts
On the Failures of Language, or Equality in Platonic Dialogue, Alex Holden
Love for Two Emmas, Crystal Monroy
According To Your Own Lights: Narration and the Regulation of Reality in Don Quixote, Brenda O’Connor
A Path To Heaven Starts With a Journey Through Hell, Kenji Rautenberg
The Philosopher's Paradox: Search for Wisdom, Emmanuel Simon
Intellectual Myriagon, Dylan Rhys Williams
Let Us Assume That This Essay is Not Absurd, Veronika Worth
The dominant theme of ‘Love’ and its many faces in Emma, Joseph Yacoubian
Rhetoric: A Short Poem’s Key, Julian A. Zepeda
Senior Essays from 2020
A Treatise on The Use of Nature and Motion in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Lydia Borrego
Constitutional Intent, John Burkart
The Good Government: The Function of Form in Plato's Republic and The Federalist Papers, Megan Canaday
The Center Cannot Hold: The Shift From Geocentricity to Heliocentricity, Laine Corfield
Art and Philosophy: Complementary Paths to Truth, Halen Gamino
Cooperation as a Strategy, Sam Huss
Sustainable Farming: Looking Into the Past In Order to Change the Future, Malia Jungert
Cultivating Your Garden: An Exploration into Boredom and Distress in Voltaire's Candide, April Kacura
An Investigation of Justice, Haka'ilangitau Kailahi
Finding Love: The Sonnet and the Importance of Form, Carli MacMahon
Why Some Lines Never Die: Ancient and Modern Accounts of the Poetic Sublime, Nick Pappas
Proving the Philosophical Existence of God, Madi Pomeroy
Those Who Tell Stories Rule Society, Ornella Raissa Tchoumie
Why Aristotelian Persuasion is Timelessly Applicable, Allison Wick
Senior Essays from 2019
Paradise Perverted: Divine Creation vs. Human Fallibility, Anna Ahrens
The Way of Language, Angelica Balma
Biblical Purpose in Don Quixote, Sannah Braun
Life: A Study in Learning, Education, and Friendship, Antonia Campagna
Pens, Pies, Part to Wholes, Rachel Choate
Ethics: Created or Discovered, Tiffany Cooper
Reason, Ratio, Reductio, Marielle Gardner
Correspondence: Why Kant Can Konnect Mathematics to Experience, Hannibal Huntley
Humor and Education: A Practical Model for Didactic Efficacy, Colin D.N. Jones
Potatoes and Rome, Luke Perez
Tom Jones is a Proverb, Kassandra Tate
Difficult Dialogues; and How To Be Judgy, Kristina Tomelloso
Is Justice just too difficult to define?, Ashley Torrecillas
Senior Essays from 2018
Heroes through History, Elizabeth Casey
State of Nature, Dylan Connell
A Path to Freedom from the Shackles, Rodrigo Flores
Truth and Christianity in Don Quixote : Remaking the World With the Game of Storytelling, Felicia Good
Saying the Same Thing: What is it to Agree, Hayley Marie Hamer
The Stuff of Legend:Redefining What it Means to be a Hero, Alex Keener
Ἰδιαί Ἀρχαί: Disputes from the Beginning, Alicia McCallister
Sympathy for the Devil, Lea McGhee
The Prison of Skepticism, Corbin O’Connor
Is Chivalry Dead?: An Examination of theWomen in Don Quixote, Julia Stanislav
Mimesis in Historiography, Ryan Villegas
A Critique of Faith: Dante and Kierkegaard on the Phenomenon of Belief, Steven Wieser
Senior Essays from 2017
Don Quixote's Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Jack Brook
The Waiting Game. The Connection Between Human Nature and Faith, Cirenna Dao
Education, Sophistry, and the Polis, according to Plato and Hume, Jack Iles
The Legacy of Euclid, Nicholas Johnson
Missing the Marx? : A Retrospective Into States of Nature, an Exploration of Exploitation and Questions for Our Future, Alejandro Kerrigan
Nature Leaving Nature: The Journey of Man, Jack Konevich
Introductory Lectures: On the Origin of Resolutions Toward A Mind of One's Own, Dustin Linck
The Evolutionary Tendencies of the Human Aesthetic, James M. Maynard
Phaedrus: The Soul Discovering Truth, Alexander Otto
I 'Kant' Believe It's Not Science! An Exposition of the Metaphysician's Self-Abuse in the Pursuit of Truth, Gabrielle Patterson
Emperors in Mirrors Are Smaller Than They Appear, Andrew Penman
Could We Be Wrong? An Exploration into Mathematical Truths, First Principles, Where We Were Wrong, and How We Could Be Wrong Again, Kathryn Price
On Becoming a Monster: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Dimitri Quaglierini
Senior Essays from 2016
Medea and Othello: Subversions of Aristotle's Archetypal Tragic Heroes, Meg Birgen
From Knowledge to Wisdom: the Journey to a Personal Relationship with God, Callie R. Camper
Villains and Victims in Love: An Investigation of Love's Changing Characterization in Racine's Phèdre, Jennifer Chavez
Learning Through Conversation: The Role of Friendship, Reuben M. Delay
