Week 1 8/24–8/27: Introductions
The Learning Portfolio
I know this is very late, but this is my visual representation of Dante’s Inferno and the 9 circles of hell.
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The fresh and modern portrayal of women in Euripides’ Medea is anything but empowering. I hesitate to promote Medea’s power and strength in the same way I hesitate Adolf Hitler’s — neither of them are role models, despite their great power and influence. Medea is not a wife, mother, or woman to be championed. She is…
So I made tarot cards. I apologize for this being late! I worked super hard on these and tried to combine the meaning behind the drawings for tarot…
Free will exists because even extenuating circumstances do not stop our conscience from decision making. Whether we are moving our hands, choosing what we will have for lunch, or controlling how much pressure we put on the gas pedal, we make decisions constantly of immeasurable importance. In terms of the…
With all great philisophical and theological conundrums comes the necessity to define one’s terms. Free will to one man does not mean the same thing as it does to another, nor do the terms good and evil mean the same to neighbors. For some, Good and Evil are interpreted through a dualistic…
Lucretius, it seems, in On the Nature of Things conducts an elaborate satire regarding his Epicurean beliefs. In his elongated ode to the goddess Venus, he champions her sovereignty and involvement in human affairs. Ironically though, Epicureans believe the gods…
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