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Shadows and Light: Plato’s Cave Reimagined

By Erika Rayo

A Wound of Loss: The Epic of Gilgamesh

By Amy Swanson

We are an Undergraduate Journal for students of all disciplines, seeking essays which succeed in transcending the compartmentalization of discipline and address matters of importance to the human whole: questions to which the great works in the liberal arts tradition point us.

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  • A Wound of Loss: The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Shadows and Light: Plato’s Cave Reimagined
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  • The Erotic-Educational Relationship: An Infinite Fall and Ascent
  • Thinking About Happiness: What Young People Can Learn About Life from the Classics of Western Philosophy by Richard M. Myers
  • Mystical; From the Standpoint of Pathlessness
  • Satire or Subjective Moralism? The Moral Message in Boccaccio’s Decameron
  • The Earth Earths: How Non-Humans Make Works Meaningful, Explored through Prehistoric Rock Art
  • The Inevitable and Vital: Orientations to Death and Others in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • The Renunciation of Psychological and Ethical Egoism as Moral Frameworks
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