• What is Freedom? New Essays Fall 2015
    • You Kant Tell Me What To Do: The Rights and Obligations of Campus Protests
    • 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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Category Archives: Exploring Freedom in Oratory, Literature, Philosophy, and Cinema

Southern Belle Secret Number One…

December 14, 2013

Madison McClung In The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone De Beauvoir begins her discussion of freedom with the child’s experience. Children …

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Pillars of a Liberal Arts Education: What Constitutes the Ideal University Education

December 14, 2013

Written by Harrison Ho As the boys of Welton Academy from the American drama film, Dead Poets Society, begin their …

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Facing the Absurd

December 14, 2013

In his Discourse on Method, Descartes delineates his way of discerning truths. By deconstructing a subject into its most basic …

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Albert Camus: Journalist at Heart, Scholar by Profession

December 14, 2013

by Anakaren Cervantes It is important to note that Kant did not advocate the use of the press to incite …

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Imprisonment: Grave of Freedom

December 14, 2013

Imprisonment, as a form of detention and punishment, was first introduced by Ancient Greek philosophers thousands of years ago. According …

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Aubade: A Transcendentalist Ode to Awakening

December 14, 2013

Aubade: a Transcendentalist Ode to the Morning Kate Kirby Henry David Thoreau, in his writings on Walden Pond, tells us …

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The Importance of an Audience

December 14, 2013

In her essay, “What is Freedom?”, Hannah Arendt explores the idea of virtuosity as it applies to freedom. But how …

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Rimbaud and Existentialism

December 11, 2013

Born in 1854, Arthur Rimbaud has been heralded as one of the greatest French poets of all time.  His poetry, …

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

  • Debate on Free Will

What is Freedom? New Essays Fall 2014

  • What Is Freedom?: New Essays Fall 2014
    • Black Women: Free at Last
    • The American Republic: Founded and Re-founded
    • 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
    • Brotherhood and Faith: The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Its Influences
    • 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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  • Exploring Freedom in Oratory, Literature, Philosophy, and Cinema
    • Albert Camus: Journalist at Heart, Scholar by Profession
    • Heart of Steel: Camus Revivifies Courage
    • Finding the Length of The Moral Arc: Human Rights, Hannah Arendt, and the Rohingya
    • Southern Belle Secret Number One…(Simone de Beauvoir, Jane Austen and Dallas, TX)
    • What Constitutes the Ideal University Education? A New Perspective on Academic Freedom
    • Re-discovering and Renewing the Past: Liberal Education in the Oratorical Tradition
    • The Importance of An Audience: How Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez Engaged the American People
    • Civil Disobedience: A Necessary Freedom
    • Responsibility & Unity: The Freedom of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • A Christian Movement: Civil Rights in America
    • The Biblical Exodus in the Rhetoric of Martin Luther King
    • Camus in Tokyo: The Absurd and Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation
    • Communication and Healing: Coming to Terms with the Post-9/11 World
    • Aubade: a Transcendentalist Ode to the Morning
    • Navigating the Absurd: Camus, Hemingway, and the Sea
    • 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
  • Debate on Free Will

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