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    • America: Land of the Free…And the Enlightened?
    • Sensationalizing Pseudoscience: The Eugenic Movement’s Restriction of Freedom
    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as Existential Antiheroes and de Beauvoir’s Subman
    • La Frontera, Language, and Freedom
    • Clanking Heels Yet No Good Meals
    • Cogito Ergo Sum: The Responsibility of Self-Liberation
    • Defining Martin Luther King, Jr. as an Existentialist Hero
    • Depression and Existentialism… Where to Sartre?
    • In The Context of War, Do The Ends Ever Justify The Means?
    • Heading into Battle: Addiction, the Will, and the Fight for Autonomy
    • Free to Feel. Free to Share. Free to be Human.
    • Examining Unequal Sacrifices in American Democracy
    • Why Freedom is Bad
    • Mrs. Dalloway and “The Yellow Wallpaper”: Public Freedom Denied
    • The “Terrible Simplifiers” of Totalitarianism: How Certainty Can Ruin a Population
    • The Monkey Scopes Trial and its Impact on Intellectual Freedom
    • Mass Incarceration, Democracy and Freedom
    • Music During the Holocaust: A Double-Edged Sword
    • Reconciling Attempts to Monitor Racial Microaggressions and Preserve Freedoms of Speech
    • Reflections on Arendt’s Reflections
    • Sartre and Camus in Contrast: Divergent Conceptions of Freedom in Existentialist and Absurdist Literature
    • The Balance of Freedom
    • When ‘Give Me Liberty’ Means ‘Give Me Death’: in Support of Death with Dignity

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A God Without Freedom

December 16, 2015

“Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains” -Rousseau, Social Contract, 1762 Free will, which grants the ability …

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Does Free Will Exist?: Stanford Students Look to Sophocles, Dante, and Descartes for an Answer

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What is Freedom? New Essays Fall 2014

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    • The Symphony of Freedom: The Importance of the Performing Arts for an Enlightened Society
    • Simone de Beauvoir: Freedom for Women
    • Emerson’s Self-Reliance in the Public Sphere
    • The Man Who Liberated Europe From Immaturity: On Frederick the Great of Prussia
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    • Freedom is Political: Rise of Democracy in Ancient Athens
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    • Fighting for Freedom with Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Walking on Common Ground – Approaching Native American Civil Rights
    • Ending the War of Subjectivities
    • “Release Ourselves Into the Nothing”: How Existentialists Handle Freedom
    • Out of Many, One
    • The Implications of Existentialist Philosophy in the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions
    • Malala and Bhutto Challenge The Oppression of Women in the Arab World
    • Flower on the Precipice: An Examination of Southern Secession
    • Is Our Obsession with Innovation Destroying Our Universities?
    • Disney Princesses, de Beauvoir, and Media Depictions of Women
    • Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: What it Means to be Free
    • Lu Xun’s Lonely Outcry: A Pessimistic Existentialism
    • Abraham Lincoln: Savior of Freedom

Exploring Freedom Through Oratory, Literature, Philosophy, and Cinema

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    • Re-discovering and Renewing the Past: Liberal Education in the Oratorical Tradition
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    • Civil Disobedience: A Necessary Freedom
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    • Aubade: a Transcendentalist Ode to the Morning
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    • Imprisonment – Grave of Freedom
    • Navigating Rimbaud’s Existential Sea
    • Pierrot Le Fou: The Initial Journey of the Absurd Hero
    • The Absurd Hero in Camus and Godard
    • Civic Sacrifice: Critical Thinking and Disobedience in the Public Sphere
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