"The Political Philosophy of Charles N.R. McCoy"
Tom Neumayr, 2011
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“War and the Virtues: The Moral Basis of Thomistic Just War Theory"
Ryan Gorman, 2010 |
“Socrates’ Case for the Just Life: A Study of the Crito, Republic, and Alcibiades 1”
Paul Diduch, 2010 |
“An Introduction to the Question of Nature, Rule, and the Common Advantage in Aristotle’s Politics”
Andrea Diduch, 2010 |
“The Alarming Consensus in Administrative Law”
Joseph Postell, 2010 |
“Leo Strauss’s Socratic Investigation of the Natural Law”
John Grant, 2010 |
“To Secure These Rights: Foreign Policy and the Principles of the American Founding”
Christopher C. Burkett, 2010 |
“Benjamin Franklin’s Science of Virtue”
Kevin Slack, 2009
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“Cosmic Design and Philosophic Rhetoric: An Analysis of Memorabilia 1.4”
Marcos Arandia, 2008 |
“Because Men Are Not Angels: The Understanding of Human Nature Informing the United States Constitution”
Lynn Geller Uzzell, 2008 |
“Richard T. Ely’s Critique of Capitalism”
Luigi Bradizza, 2008
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“A Defense of Moral Praxis: Karol Wojtyla’s Acting Person”
Jameson Thomas Taylor, 2007
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“Administration and the American Regime”
Kevin J. Portteus, 2006 |
“Moral Legislation in Early American State Constitutions and Legislation”
William George Miller, 2006
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“Philosophy and Law: An Interpretation of Plato’s Minos”
Steven Michael Thomason, 2005 |
“The Evolution and Interpretation of Due Process of Law”
Cynthia Stewart, 2005
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“The Relation Between Thought and Civil Society: Equality and Inequality in the Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
David William Livingstone, 2004
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“Xenophon’s Socratic Rhetoric: A Study of the Symposium”
Dustin Avery Gish, 2003 |
“Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece: A New Myth of the Founding of the Roman Republic”
Vicki E. J. Murray, 2003 |
“Building the Temple of Peace: The Statesmanship of Winston Churchill”
Justin D. Lyons, 2003 |
“The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton”
Douglas Scott Broyles, 2003
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“Exploring that Unexplored Clause of the Constitution: The Meaning of the ‘Privileges and Immunities of Citizens’ before the Fourteenth Amendment”
David Upham, 2002
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“A Wealth of Notions: The Poverty of Rational Choice Theory”
Sean Sutton, 2001 |
| “Aristotle on the Preservation of Tyranny in Politics V, II: An Education for Gentlemen, Philosophers, and Tyrants” Stephen A. Shumaker, 2001 |
“St. John’s Vision of the Heavenly City”
Warren Austin Gage, 2001 |
“Wisdom and Power in Cicero’s de Officiis, Book 1”
Scott Thomas Barker, 2001
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“The Good of Politics: The Social Encyclicals of Pope leo XIII on the Nature of the Common Good”
Joseph Allen Stibora, 2000 |
“Against That ‘Powerful Engine of Despotism’: The Fourth Amendment and General Warrants at the Founding and Today”
Bruce Newman, 2000
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“Development of Sexual Harassment Policy: A Case in Modern Liberal Government”
John (“Jack”) Ormond, 1999 |
“Substantive Due Process: A Controversy of Justice and Legitimacy”
Sean Mattie, 1999 |
“One Dream or Two? Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr”
Nathan W. Schlueter, 1999 |
“John Locke and Citizenship: The Role of the Individual in the Lockean Political Order”
Michael L. Coulter, 1999
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“Lockean Rhetoric and Toleration: The Place of Language in the Thought of John Locke”
Laurence D. Nee, 1998
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“Shakespeare’s King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the Shakespearean Recovery of Natural Right”
Mark A. McDonald, 1997
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“On the Art of the Legislator in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America”
T. Daniel Tolleson, 1996 |
“Plato’s use of Homer’s Poetry in Books 2 & 3 of the Republic: A Reading Employing Leo Strauss’ Principle of Logographic Necessity”
Nicholas J. Janszen, 1996 |
“Teaching the Art of Learning Through Conversation: A Study of Plato’s Statesman”
Michael S. Iachetta, 1996
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“Cicero’s de Finibus as Political Oratory”
Kenneth W. Collins, 1995 |
“Locke on Liberty: The Context for a Consideration of Reason and Civil Society”
Michael E. Pennell, 1995
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“Magnum Opus et Arduum: A Commentary on the Structure of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei”
Richard J. Dougherty, 1993
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“The Political Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards”
Jeff Jay Stone, 1992 |
“The Tragedy of Shakespeare’s Venice: Cosmopolitanism and Internal Collapse”
Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo, 1992 |
"Public Administration and the American Constitution"
Robert M. Schaefer, 1992
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“Christianity in the Constitution: The Intended Meaning of the Religious Clauses of the First Amendment”
Archie Preston Jones, 1991
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“Theory and Practice in Aristotle’s Ethics”
Eric M. Salem, 1989 |
“A Critical Commentary on John Locke’s Essays on the Law of Nature”
William Lindahl, 1986 |
“The Thought of John C. Calhoun: The Key to the Liberal Critique of American Politics”
Robert Jeffrey, 1985 |
“Introduction to Montesquieu: A First Reading of the Essay on the Causes Which Can Affect the Spirits and the Characters”
Sheryl Jo Brown, 1985 |
“The Stony Path: Eros, Land, and History in Caroline Gordon”
Virginia Lombardo Arbery, 1984 |
“The Surest Guardian of Liberty: Hamiltonian Statesmanship and the Creation of the American Union”
Mackubin T. Owens, 1982
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“The Poetics and the Tempest: Prospero as Spoudaios and Comedy Saved.”
Stephen Jerome Vanderslice, 1979*
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“‘Longinus’ on Height: The Political Foundations Of Literary Criticism”
Guy Story Brown, 1979* |
“Plato’s Protagoras”
J. Patrick Coby, 1978 |
“The Anti-Federalists and the Agrarian Republic: Securing the Blessings of Liberty Through a Less Perfect Union”
J. Michael Bordelon, 1975* |
“The Political Teaching of John Wise’s Second Treatise on Ecclesiastical Government”
Donald J. Erler, 1975* |
“The Politics of James Madison”
Alexander R. Landi, 1973* |
“Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies: Self-glorification and the Incomplete Polity”
John Alvis, 1973* |
An asterisk (*) indicates that the student received a Ph.D. in Politics and Literature, as was the case under the program’s original configuration. Students now receive a Ph.D. in Politics in the Institute of Philosophic Studies |