Major
English
Anticipated Graduation Year
2025
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Open Access
Abstract
Notions of the soul, its corporeal and tangible makeup, and its division amongst gender has increasingly varied from Antiquity to Modern periods. For writers such as Origen, the soul implicates an inherent identity, seen through his belief in free will, and levels of rationality embedded into the soul based on gender. In modernity, notions of the soul have changed drastically based on the genre of literature surveyed. For Kate Chopin, a modernist writer, the soul is subjected to determinism, an inescapable process that subscribes to the idea that free will is absent, as outside factors will determine you to act certain ways, and deprive you of the ability to adequately make choices that will enhance your soul.
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Dr. Lauren O'Connell
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Deliberation and Determinism: Two Processes Affecting the Soul From Antiquity to Modernity
Notions of the soul, its corporeal and tangible makeup, and its division amongst gender has increasingly varied from Antiquity to Modern periods. For writers such as Origen, the soul implicates an inherent identity, seen through his belief in free will, and levels of rationality embedded into the soul based on gender. In modernity, notions of the soul have changed drastically based on the genre of literature surveyed. For Kate Chopin, a modernist writer, the soul is subjected to determinism, an inescapable process that subscribes to the idea that free will is absent, as outside factors will determine you to act certain ways, and deprive you of the ability to adequately make choices that will enhance your soul.