Events
Annapolis, Commencement
May 17, 2009
SENIOR ESSAY TITLES
The Confrontation Between Divine Inspiration and Human Worth in Plato's Ion ((With Frequent Reference to the Apology of Socrates)
Hold onto the Concrete
Man Alone: An Examination of the Underground Man in Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground
Vincy Vincit: A Study of Provincial Life
To Love, Honor, and Obey: Grisilde and Her Marriage Vow
Where Are We Going? Directionality in Natural Selection
On the Transition of Political Power in Ancient Israel into Monarchy: That it Was Both a Necessity and a Sin, and That David was the Ideal of the Compromise
The "Somewhat Expanded" Don Quixote and His Discoveries of Part One and Part Two
Baring Lear: A Study of the Loss and Retrieval Of Lear's Titles
The Loss of Natural Selection: A Darwinian Approach to Domestication and Breeding
Ending It When It's Over: An Investigation into Turnus' Death and the Last Scene of the Aeneid
Abraham and Kierkegaard's Moment
"Comme les exiles, ridicule et sublime," The Poet in the City in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
The Music of Plato: An Inquiry into the Best Education Through the Works of Plato
God, the Joy Giving and Sole Saving Diversion
Music, Fire and the Feminine Soul: Natasha's Education into Womanhood
The Castaway and Immensity
An Attempt to Understand Hegel's Account of the Unhappy Consciousness
"Fighting the Fight." Strife, Truth, and History: The Essence of Art in Martin Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art
The Beautiful and Good: On Plato's Hippias Major
Fates Past Counting: The Life and Death of the Warrior Soul
Into the Labyrinth: An Exploration of Dessein in Racine's Phèdre
Flowers of Antimony by Any Other Name: Lavoisier and the Language of Learning
The Habit of Being
Self Awakening and the Pursuit of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins": Form, Content, and the Mythical Method in The Waste Land
Education and the Divine: Exploring the Motivation Behind Echeis Moi Eipein, O Sokrates
On Human and Divine Union
The Death of the Man of La Mancha
Why Am I Here? What Am I Doing? Pierre's Search for Meaning in Tolstoy's War and Peace
Freedom and the Spartan Character
L'Amant, l'Ami, et le Misanthrope
Belief and Experience in the Book of Jonah
The Fall of the House of Sutpen: An Exploration of Innocence in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Heart of Darkness: The Changes Take Place Inside, You Know
The God of the Adversary and the Malefactor of the Cross Troubles Job, Living on the Frontier of Experience: When Job is Naught, Then He is a Man
Dorothea's Pursuit of Greatness in Middlemarch
"To Join in Love, Not Hate": The Magnificent Failure of Friendship in Antigone
Kirillov and Shatov: Paths of Belief
Embodied Experience: On Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
"Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name": Scientific Classification in Aristotle, Darwin and Lavoisier
Fearful Humans, Loved by God: An Essay on the Nature of God's Love and Humans' Response to It
Division and Identity in Macbeth
How to Philosophize After Nihilism: A Not-So-Easy Guide for the "Predisposed and Predestined"
Socratic Piety and the Discovery of Political Philosophy in the Minos
The Search for Freedom: The Extent of Man's Freewill in Tolstoy's War and Peace
God as Consequent and Superject: Examining Religious Prehensions in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality
Death in War and Peace
On Predestination, Free Will and Two Love Stories in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
A Paradigm for the Properly Governed:Thucydides' Response to Glaucon
"Into the World of Loneness": The Conflict Between Reason and Desire in William Blake's The Book of Ahania
Between Beast and God: Human Cultivation, Tradition and Community in Homer's Odyssey
The Baconian Revolution and the Rise of the Scientific Animal
The Amnesiac: Extracting Meaning from the Earth
"The king is not himself": The Character of Richard II
Mercy and Defeat in Flannery O'Connor's "The Artificial Nigger"
The Importance of the Sense Education in Rousseau's Emile
Defending Don Quixote: A Jester's Place Among the Giants of Philosophy
The Problem of Silence: Aeschylus's Agamemnon and the Meaning of the Unspoken
The Salute to the Creator in Newton and Darwin: Divinity in the Principia and The Origin of Species
Iphigeneia and the Horror of War
Self-Knowledge in Love: The Construct of Self in Pursuing Romantic Relationships
Francis Bacon's Theory of Knowledge
Thought Seeing: Perception and the Intellect in Aristotle's On the Soul
"Experience had embittered his heart to the world": Understanding Poverty, Paralysis, and Epiphany in James Joyce's Dubliners
How Man Stands Now: An Exploration the Paths Man Pursues that Lead Him to Unintended Weariness
A More Perfect Union: The Foundations of Politics as a Science in The Federalist
Signatures of the Divine: Nature and Morals in Immanuel Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason and Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man
Man of Many Names: Some Epithets of Odysseys in Odyssey XIII
The Virtue of Friendship: The Friendship of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Brother, Lover, Master: Sexual Imagery in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Mortal Thoughts as Mortals Should
"The rigging lived...":: The Pequod as a Character in Moby Dick
Those Beautiful Vessels: So Many Shrouded Ghosts: A Look at the Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass
Why Rule? An Inquiry into the Actions of the Philosophic Man as Embodied by Cicero
The Education of Cyrus
"But what then am I?" Essence and Experience in Descarte' Meditations
Why Does it Have to Hurt? Violence and Revelation in Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First"
Less Elevated, More Just: The Threat and Promise of Equality in Democracy in America
The Ancient and Modern View of Man and Political Rule: An Essay Concerning Hobbesian Man
Nikolai Stavrogin: A Character Study from Dostoyevsky's Demons
Distinguishing Humanity from the Darkness Within: Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground
The Part of Us That is Not Submerged: The Overman, the Absolute, and Individual Choice
The Will to Life
Political Memory at the Close of the Age of Heroes: The Cosmopolitan Nature of Man
Wealth of Nations, Wealth of Faiths: The Interrelation of Wealth, Politics, and Faith in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
Subjectivity and the Evasion of Historical Suppression: On Spontaneity, Ethics, and Erotic Love in Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity
From Abysmal Thought to Burden-Song: The Redemption of Zarathustra
"This will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it": An Inquiry into the Divisive Effects of Locke's Toleration and the Christian Church
"Beauty laid bare": A Discussion of the Boundaries of Beauty in Baudelaire
The Second Tree of Knowledge: How Can Philosophy be a Living Thing?
Reading Adventures: Understanding the Notice in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Civilizing Experience: Solitude and Storytelling in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
The Hidden and Their Discovery
On the Possibility of Moral Development
One Becoming One Out of Many
Beginnings in Plato's Phaedrus
All Men Must Die, But First Let Us Live
Life: All for One or One for All? An Investigation of the Good for Organic Life
Resignation as a Means to Faith
Maxwell and Method
"Without knowing what I am and why I'm here, it is impossible for me to live": The Search for Meaning in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Poetry and Mathematics: A Love of Rhyme and Reason
"I Reckon It's So": A Study of Morality in Huckleberry Finn
The Discipline of Angels: An Examination of the Creative Act in Three Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
Herodotus and the Meaning of History
From Sympathy to Morality
Nature and the Language of the Sense: An Illumination of "Tintern Abbey" Through the Works of Edmund Husserl