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Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.

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Clouds over the Pyrais Pre-Socratics in the Modern University

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This thesis recalls a famous Greek comedy's critique of higher education and examines how it might apply to the modern university. In order to understand the application of such a critique, this thesis necessarily works to define the spirit of the university as it was formed in the cross-civilizational decedents…

This thesis recalls a famous Greek comedy's critique of higher education and examines how it might apply to the modern university. In order to understand the application of such a critique, this thesis necessarily works to define the spirit of the university as it was formed in the cross-civilizational decedents of Plato's Academy. After the first universities, I examine the development of higher education in the United States. Ultimately I argue that the Aristophanic critique of Socrates and higher education is applicable in a very important way to the modern university. I offer two policy recommendations that might offer an important starting point for recalling the spirit of the university.
ContributorsMatter, Stephen (Author) / McNamara, Peter (Thesis director) / Zuckert, Michael (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership (Contributor)
Created2023-05
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Aquinas' Just Wage in the Modern Day

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This thesis outlines the relevance of the Thomistic approach to economics, provide guidelines for determining Aquinas’ just wage in the modern day, and apply Aquinas’ philosophy to minimum wage laws. In order to apply Aquinas’ philosophy to modern economics, I analyze his concept of justice and his theory of law,…

This thesis outlines the relevance of the Thomistic approach to economics, provide guidelines for determining Aquinas’ just wage in the modern day, and apply Aquinas’ philosophy to minimum wage laws. In order to apply Aquinas’ philosophy to modern economics, I analyze his concept of justice and his theory of law, as well as integrate modern market logic with his principles for a moral economy. I conclude that minimum wage laws are compatible with Aquinas’ theories of law and the role of wealth. However, the minimum wage is not always the just wage in the Thomistic approach. The just wage can only be determined between a just worker and just employee. They must take circumstances into account, value the labor based on the worker’s loss and the employer’s need, and set the wage by considering the ultimate end goal of virtue
ContributorsTemaat, Gabrielle (Author) / McNamara, Peter (Thesis director) / Smart, Theresa (Committee member) / Economics Program in CLAS (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05