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Can an Effective Lawyer be a Morally Upstanding Person? An Examination of Legal Ethics (thesis)
In this essay, I will analyze various scholarly responses to a widely debated question within legal ethics: does the lawyer's role mint permissions to violate ordinary morality? I will begin with a brief introduction to ...
A Defense of Utilitarianism (thesis)
I will attempt to defend utilitarianism from the demandingness objection. The sort of utilitarianism that I refer to throughout is the consequentialist moral theory that obligates us to maximize well-being. The form of ...
On Showing and Saying: An Analysis of Go?del 1931
In 1931 Kurt Go?del published a theorem demonstrating that many systems of formal logic capable of developing arithmetic possess major deficiencies. He shovs that such systems, if they are consistent, are powerless to ...
Gesang ist Dasein: Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Why Art is Worth More than the Truth
What, then, are we to make of Nietzsche's exaltation of art? The goal of this study is to examine why Nietzsche might have declared art to be worth more than the Truth and, with sufficient prudence so as not to attempt to ...
Of Human Identity: Deconstruction and its Discontents
Why would Jacques Derrida and deconstruction so often evoke baseless and sweeping objections like those in the epigraph? Many students and academics find Derrida's works incomprehensible and even contradictory at times. ...
"...but what to do with the guilt?" Kantian Autonomy, Heideggerian Authenticity, and Human Lacking
Kantian autonomy and Heideggerian authenticity each have a place in a human life. To show this I must show how the two complement each other and how they differ. To show that authenticity does not conflict with autonomy, ...
A Study of Character: The Antigone Motif in Sophocles, Anouilh & Brecht
This paper is a twofold discussion of character. It is first a study in comparative drama, a comparison of the characters and plots of three versions of Antigone. This discussion deals primarily with empirical rather than ...
Nietzsche, Personal Honor, and the Concept of Honor at Washington and Lee University
Having spent four years at Washington and Lee University, I have been and continue to be impacted by our Honor System daily in both subtle and explicit ways. As a freshman, I heard the "Leave Now" speech in Lee Chapel and ...
A Partially Changing God: In Defense of Free Will and Foreknowledge
In this thesis I will begin with a libertarian view of human free will, one in which we are able to be active agents in freely choosing our own actions. At the same time, I will assume that
there is a God, and that He is ...
The Good Life
What is the best life a human being can live? There can obviously be many different answers to this question with many different reasons. However, I would like to take an Aristotelian approach to this question. In order ...