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Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx on Ethics

A 25 page paper detailing philosophy’s development throughout the 19th century toward an ethical materialism

An essay on colonialism and how to resolve its wrong

A 20 page essay detailing scholarship on colonialism and my own contributions to the field

An essay expanding academic critiques of colonialism

Two articles cited by the previous one selected, are examined in a dialogue to further conversations against colonialism

An essay about critiquing colonialism

Based in an academic particle, a particular cosmopolitan critique of colonialism will arise from reading Kant

Nietzsche and Genealogy

An essay explaining Nietzsche’s concept of a genealogy and how it is a critique applied to morality

J.S. Mill on Higher and Lower Pleasures

An argument rooted in “Utilitarianism” seeking to expound and clarify the significance of Mill’s claims there

Kant and the Categorical Imperative

An essay explaining two of Kant’s formulations of the Categorical Imperative

Hume on Sense over Reason

An essay describing how Hume believes senses involve motivating power rather than reason

Aristotle on happiness

An essay detailing how happiness for Aristotle is achieved individually

Race and Social Construction

Essay on one view of race as socially constructed

Race and social construction 2

An essay critiquing 2 views of race as a social construct

Heidegger and Husserl on truth

Phenomenology, what is truth?

Levinas and ethics

Essay about a significant ethical theorist

Beauvoir and Fanon on ethics

Essay connecting phenomenology to political action

Social contract theory and its lies

Detailing the shortcomings of social contract theory

Hobbes over Locke

An essay arguing we live in a world fitting of Hobbes instead of Locke

Socialism vs Capitalism

An essay comparing differing utopias and their nature

Heidegger and Nietzsche

Connecting these 2 thinkers views and how they relate

Arendt, Hartman, Levinas, Tolstoy, and Brison on Death

Is death experienced the same by everyone?

Plato vs Foucault

The nature of the body and soul according to these 2 thinkers

Nietzsche on morality in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”

Discussing Nietzsche’s view on “Nomos” vs “Physis”

Nietzsche’s break from philosophical tradition in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”

How Nietzsche’s philosophy differs from the canon

Davis, Foucault, and Beauvoir

Relating these 3 thinkers on power

Hoderlin on nature

Speaking from a poetic perspective on nature

Oedipus and time

Using the play “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles to theorize on time

A Manifesto for a political movement

Utilizing critical theory to call for a better tomorrow in the US

A recent author, Nancy, on modernization

Theorizing on the effects of globalization

Derrida and justice

Deconstruction in action about the notion of justice

Philosophy and the poetry of Hoderlin

Relating a poet to philosophical meaning

Philosophy and the poetry of Celan

Writing on a poet philosophically

Plato, Seneca, Anselm, and Emerson on religion

Comparing these 4 thinkers views on god