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!e Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College

SPRING 2013     ISSUE II
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CONTENTS 

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Batman Begins 15 

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Pocahontas 31 

 
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“ “Philosophy opens us up to that 
dimension—what is a human being? 

what does it mean to be a human 
being?—across the full spectrum of 

human experience.



3

Heidegger: !rough 
Phenomenology to !ought,

Why should an undergraduate study philosophy? Why is philosophy still relevant in 
today’s society?

Interview with  
William Richardson, S.J.



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beyond



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How about your own personal experience in philosophy? What "rst got you interested 
in philosophy? For some of us it’s a good course, or a mentor.  What was it for you?

Heidegger renounced his Catholic faith and developed a sort of godless philosophy 
of ultimate being. Do you think there is any possible reconciliation between faith 
and Heidegger? How did you work 
through the di#culty?

metaphysical

a



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Do you think someone’s religious life can bene"t from examining Heidegger’s 
philosophy?

Being and Time

questions.

question he raises,





“ “Freedom necessitates the 
possibility of choice. Everyone must 

face their circumstances and their 
su!erings and make a choice of how 

to bear through them.



9

A

!e Myth of Sisyphus

George Massey

Confronting Death: 
!e Absurd in Camus 
and Frankl



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!e Plague !e Plague

logos

individualist compassion



11

world at large
life

8 



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13

physician’s

its
from him

himself individualistic
of others

haven’t 

the 
meaning of life is to give life meaning

!e Myth of Sisyphus.

Teaching Philosophy
!e Myth of Sisyphus

Teaching Philosophy
Philosophy Today

Man’s Search for Meaning
Man’s Search for Meaning

Man’s Search for Meaning
Psychotherapy and Philosophy



“ “"e deathly Void that conquers 
with sword and scythe is itself 

conquered by paper and pen. 



15

!e Severed Head

!e Severed Head

Batman Begins

Batman Begins

Batman Begins

Batman Begins

!e Prestige Memento

Robert Williams

Beyond Chiroptophobia: 
Capital Vision in  
Batman Begins



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Faust

8 !anatos

!anatos Eros



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 As 

 

Batman Begins

com



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!anatos 

and and and and

!e Severed Head: Capital Visions.

Batman Begins
Severed Head

Batman Begins
Severed Head

Batman Begins
Severed Head

Batman Begins

Severed Head Batman Begins
Batman Begins

Severed Head

Batman Begins
Severed Head



“ “Free will is still fully a part of Nature, 
but rather than a resultant, it is a law 

by which Nature operates, much like 
gravity, motion, and the like.



21

 

Eric Marturano

Free Will as a Natural 
Law in a Mechanist 
World



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8



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Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Emotions
Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources



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Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Emotions.



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F Notes from the Underground !e Brothers Karamazov deal 

Notes from the Underground

Alan Lipchin

Dostoevsky on Human Freedom: 
Responding to the Gift of  
Freedom in Modern Society



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8



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!e Brothers Karamazov. 
Brothers Karamazov, 

!e 
Grand Inquisitor

!e Grand Inquisitor

 



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Notes 
from the Underground



29

Notes from the Underground.

!e Grand Inquisitor,

!e Grand Inquisitor Notes from the Underground is 

Basic Writings of Existentialism

Existentialism

Existentialism
Basic Writings of Existentialism



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!e Brothers Karamazov

Basic Writings of Existentialis

Dostoevsky: A Life



31

Dances with Wolves Avatar 

Pocahontas

Pocahontas

Pocahontas

 a 

Saljooq Asif

Montaignian and Voltairian 
Principles in  
Disney’s Pocahontas



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Of Cannibals

Pocahontas:
John Smith



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Pocahontas:
John Smith: 
Pocahontas
John Smith
Pocahontas: 8



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35POCAHONTAS

Philosophical Dictionary,



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Philosophical 
Dictionary

 
Pocahontas

Pocahontas

he Pocahontas Myth: !e Real Story, Not Disney’s Distortion.

Pocahontas

!e Complete Essays of Montaigne: “Of Cannibals”



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Pocahontas.

Of Cannibals

Of Cannibals
!e Portable Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary,

Of Cannibals,
Pocahontas

Philosophical Dictionary
!e Portable Voltaire: Letters

Philosophical Dictionary
Pocahontas.



“ “Cezanne successfully established a 
middle ground among the bifurcation 

that united the act of ‘appearing’ and the 
objects that actually do appear.



39

F

Shades

James Baylor

!e Philosophy behind Cezanne 
and his Recovery of Objectivity: 
!e Decisive Break from Pure 
Impressionism 



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in and 
through

envelope

ordinary 
vision

over in and through 

Cezanne’s Doubt

ordinary vision



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prima facie (envelope) 

 prima facie

Japanese Bridge Mont Sainte-Victoire

Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine Tree 



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Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine Tree 

over 
it in and through

Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine Tree



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Shades – Of Painting at the Limit 

Cezanne’s Doubt

Paul Cezanne Letters

Shades – Of Painting at the Limit



“ “It seems as if, on the whole, the modern 
man has dismissed the age-old quest 

—set on by Socrates— 
to objective self-knowledge.



45

A !e Lord of 
the Rings

!e Lord of the Rings

Nichomachean Ethics

Gjergji Evangjeli

On Why it is Hard for 
Modern Americans to Relate 
to Aragorn



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!e Silmarrillion.  

!e Lord of the Rings

 



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!e Lord of the Rings

 

 

!eatetus
!e Abolition of Man



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is asserted as a priori



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!e Silmarillion

true



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pater familias

 



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Princ
New Atlantis



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Nichomachean Ethics

!e Lord of the Rings: !e Two Towers

!e Lord of the Rings: !e Return of the King,

Tao Te Ching Te

Henry IV: Part II

Lord of the Rings: !e Two Towers
Christian Re"ections

!eatetus

Lord of the Rings: !e Two Towers,
!e Divine Liturgy According to St. John the Chrysostom

!e Lord of the Rings: !e Fellowship of the Ring

!e Lord of the Rings: !e Fellowship of the Ring

!e Abolition of Man
!e Lord of the Rings: !e Two Towers



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!e Lord of the Rings: !e Return of the King





AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

George Massey

Robert Williams

Eric Marturano

Alan Lipchin

Saljooq Asif

James Baylor

Gjergji Evangjeli 

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