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    • 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
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Category Archives: Debate on Free Will

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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Why Descartes Is Good At Poker

December 14, 2015

by Eldrick Millares Introduction: Shuffling the Deck “The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is …

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Selfishly Shunning Choice

December 11, 2015

Our choices reverberate beyond ourselves: this is a daunting idea that at many times we would rather avoid. Examples abound …

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Discovering Freedom in Ethical Dilemmas: An Existentialist Reading of Antigone

December 9, 2015

In modern society, apologies for questionable actions occasionally include the phrase “I’m sorry, but I just wasn’t myself”.  For human …

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Forming a Habit of Free Thinking

December 12, 2014

By Ariadne Nichol Are we capable of being free thinking, autonomous individuals? Some modern scientists and philosophers would answer firmly …

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Judgment Call

December 12, 2014

By: Ryanne Bamieh Consider a young man who strongly believes in the principle of solidarity. His allegiance to this principle …

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The Pitfalls of Habit

December 8, 2014

by Melissa Du Before we ponder the heavy topic of free will, let us first turn our attention to Steve, …

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A Confucian Reading of the Politics of Freedom in Sophocles’ Antigone

December 7, 2014

by Bryan Cheong We are all political creatures, and cannot be rid of our place in society, and are thereby …

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The Yolk of Immaturity: A Psychoanalysis of Creon

December 6, 2014

By: Ildemaro Gonzalez As men we are born into this preexisting world and into circumstances far beyond our means of …

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Free Will: Options and Choices and Agency! Oh, my!

December 3, 2014

Rebecca Layne I wish I could report that the time when I grabbed my sister’s brand new golf club and …

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    • Physical Force and Soul Force: Examining the Use of Violence and Its Opposite in The Mission
    • 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
    • Multicultural Education: A Force for Equality, Freedom, and the Common Good
    • Freedom is Political: Rise of Democracy in Ancient Athens
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    • “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?
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