American Madmen: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Purpose of Science
When considering where to lay blame for the hypothetical end of the world, it can be hard to decide whether responsibility lies with the creators of the means of destruction or those who actively put these means to use.
Eichmann, Oppenheimer, and the Perils of Blind Obedience
In deviating from a Thrasymachean conception of justice, Oppenheimer enters a Socratic domain that puts the collective good into the foreground.
Nietzsche and Arendt’s Warnings Against Totalitarianism
Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt have both been misinterpreted with regard to their attitude toward the Nazis, but in fact they both hold very strong and uncompromising anti-Nazi views.
What Does Justice Look Like for the “Banal” Adolf Eichmann?
How does Arendt’s theory of “banality of evil” challenge both Plato’s and our own subsequent view on evil and injustice? This central question is what makes Eichmann in Jerusalem so philosophically groundbreaking […]
Watchmen: Impediments, Failures, and Splits in Understanding
This paper will be an examination of impediments, failures, and splits in attempts to understand reality.
The Past, Present, and Future in The Road
The past can be a dangerous thing. Post-traumatic stress disorder, for instance, affects one’s future in innumerable ways, molding itself into fear and sadness, leaving one trapped at the bottom of the past’s well, the rope unreachable.
In His Time: How Ernest Hemingway Defines and Promotes Masculinity in In Our Time.
Overall, the portrayal of themes of masculinity and femininity in In Our Times is not clear-cut. Whilst seemingly a direct attack on women, Hemingway in fact prioritizes his attack on femininity, whether embodied by man or woman […]
Liberty in Leviathan
This paper argues that although Hobbes advocates for authoritarian government, parts of his argument still tilt towards liberty.
Just Ideas? An analysis of the use of political authority to bring about justice in the world
This essay will explore these uses of political authority beginning with the works of Sophocles, Plato, Hobbes, Hemingway, and Marx. The essay will argue that these deployments of authority find their beginnings in the conceptualization of justice.
Enlightenment for Dummies: The Simple Guide to ‘Finding Yourself’ by Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that On the Genealogy of Morality was written to tell us that, should we become aware of the flaws in the values on which he writes and alter our opinions accordingly, we just might happen to ‘find ourselves one day’ (GM, Preface, p.1).