Support

 

|

 

Contact

 

|

 

Staff

 
   

Essays

 

Essay                                                       2009

Darwin at 200, The Origin of Species at 150

Ideas like Darwin’s, spread as they do because they are so powerful at explaining the world.

Troy Camplin Ph.D

Essay                                                       2009

Two Concepts of Liberty: An Analysis of Berlin's Seminal Essay

Sir Isaiah Berlin, in his 1958 essay and inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty," expands on the ideals of liberty that were synthesized and inculcated by earlier political philosophers. The essay initiates and details an outline of an idealized liberty with two distinct branches: positive and negative. Although the essay is a bit controversial, producing such detractors as Charles Taylor, this seminal piece has staying power and can only be enhanced, not nullified.

Henry C. Alphin Jr

Essay                                                       2009

Gresham’s Law in the 21st Century

In our current society, information is the    currency  . . .

Joshua Finnell

Essay                                                      2009

FREE FROM THE WORLD, FREE IN THE WORLD

The man’s freedom rises from original biological processes. But, the definition and the concrete realization of the freedom have a historic character.  It can also occur that our freedom releases itself completely from whatever determined content. This represents a dogmatic pretence. Hegel takes this risk, defining it “sentimental totality”.  On the contrary, Kant poses the question of subsistence of an unconditionalness a priori, previous and independant from the relationship with the world. Lastly, the modern condition of freedom sends us to the relationship between individual and society.

Andrea Amato

Essay                                                      2009

Branding the Arts

In fact, Warhol’s Coca-Cola bottles and Campbell’s Soup cans might actually discourage consumption, and not through their alleged statements about ubiquitous images.

J.D. Smith

Essay

 
 

The Symphony of Personal and Social Life

Thinking life in the abstract and assimilating it to music is almost a limitless exercise: . . .

Maria Alejandra Vanney

 

Sentimental Deception

When Ralph Waldo Emerson came to the Adirondacks in August, 1858 . . .

Gerald Schwartz

 

Freedom Evolves

Several years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett wrote a book by the same title that in fact set out to prove the opposite thesis. . .

Troy Camplin Ph.D.

 

 

 
 
 
 
     
The Emerson Institute        
for Freedom and Culture       Table of Topics
Home       Fiction
Poetry
About Emerson       Visual Art
      Interdisciplinary
Contributors       Culture & Society
      Essays
Submissions       Plays & Scripts
      Songs & Music
Issue Archives       Philosophy & Religion
      Economics
Current Activities       Science
Reviews
Activities Archives        
       
Blog