Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Bruce Closser
Abstract
My research focuses on the effects on children raised according to the guidelines for training the Guardians of the ideal society described in Plato's Republic. I explore this concept creatively in a fictional modern Utopian community like that of B. F. Skinner's Walden Two and support this with firsthand accounts of the attempts to make Skinner's work a reality. Combined with a perspective on education in Plato along with the Hitler Youth program, this framework allows me to analyze how we use ideals and philosophy to justify our actions, and ultimately how human nature confounds our attempts to build paradise.
Recommended Citation
Burton, Jeremy, "Ataraxia: A Modern Platonic Utopia" (2012). Honors Theses. 43.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/43/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/43
Subject Area
Utopias in literature, Ataraxia.
Creative Commons License
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/43/