The Devils of Gettysburg
Gettysburg, Pa. Dead Confederate soldiers in "the devil's den" Andrew Gardner, 1863. The secondary source I have found for my image was...
Human Action and Historical Contingency
In the modern day, it is often that we humans feel as if our actions could not possibly change the course of history. After watching a...
Islamic State and Justification
The reason I am going to compare the current “armed conflict” of the Islamic State is not because I feel that the conflicts in Ukraine...
Just War? EC Blog
Prof. Daniel Brunstetter presented the first ever philosophy lecture that I have ever been too, and I genuinely enjoyed listening to the...
Essay 2 Rough Outline/draft/intro
Machiavelli begins defining virtue as being able to maintain a well driven military, in order to secure the prince's position of power....
Hitler's Use of Machiavelli's Ideas
As soon as Hitler came to power, he started the militarization of Germany which eventually led to every German contributing to the war in...
Machiavelli's Argumentation
One thing that Machiavelli excels at is generalizing from small examples, which helps us better understand the situations when they are...
Chaplains Epic View of War
The idea of Epic Theatre as a specific genre allows an audience member to automatically assume that there is something more to the play....
The Struggle to Convey Meaning
Pleading for him to not fight, Priam and Hecuba try to appeal to Hector’s familial bonds. By making note that it was from his mother's...
Pandarus' Farewell
In book five of The Iliad, Fagles translates a scene in which the archer Pandarus dies at the hands of both Diomedes and Athena. Alice...