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The Constantin Review, Volume IV, Fall 1993 University of Dallas UDigital Commons Constantin Review Joe Staler Student Publications Collection Fall 1993 The onsC tantin Review, Volume IV, Fall 1993 Robert Hanson University of Dallas Rufel Ramos University of Dallas Angela Raley University of Dallas Paul Schlaud University of Dallas Jean Kirwin University of Dallas See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/const_review Part of the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Hanson, Robert; Ramos, Rufel; Raley, Angela; Schlaud, Paul; Kirwin, Jean; Volk, Tamar Alexandra; Meaney, Joseph; Weisbruch, Kristina; Saylor, Kevin; and Delgado, Sylvia, "The onC stantin Review, Volume IV, Fall 1993" (1993). Constantin Review. Paper 5. http://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/const_review/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Joe Staler Student Publications Collection at UDigital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Constantin Review by an authorized administrator of UDigital Commons. Authors Robert Hanson, Rufel Ramos, Angela Raley, Paul Schlaud, Jean Kirwin, Tamar Alexandra Volk, Joseph Meaney, Kristina Weisbruch, Kevin Saylor, and Sylvia Delgado This book is available at UDigital Commons: http://digitalcommons.udallas.edu/const_review/5 KANTS PROPOSAL FOR A HISTORY OF MAN 3 Robert Hanson ROMANTIC HEROISM IN THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER 7 Rufel Ramos THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE BOND OF LOVE _.•............. 9 Angela Raley ODYSSEY 11 Paul Schlaud THE SWAMP FOX 13 Jean Kirwin, Winner--Clodecott Award, 1993 STAGES OF CULTURE: A COMPARISON OF CLASSICAL GREEK AND ROMAN CULTURES AS MANIFESTED IN THEIR THEATRICAL SPACES 14 Tamar Alexandra Volk THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE 18 Joseph Meaney AS KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE 25 Kristina Weisbruch INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE IN THE NURSE'S SONGS 28 Kevin Saylor PLATO'S CAVE 31 Sylvia Delgado THE CONSTANTIN REVIEW is a publication of the Constantin College of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas. The College and this review are named in honor of Eugene Constantin, [r., who served as chairman of the Board of Trustees and was a founder and generous benefactor of the College. The Constantin Review is published each September under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of the Universi ty of Dallas. Its purpose is to promote student writing and to recognize students who have achieved a high degree of literary skill. Students are encouraged to submit papers to the editorial board, which includes but is not limited to Junior Phi Beta Kappa members. (Send papers to Dr. Mark Lowery, c/o the Theology Department, by March 1.) After the Review comes out each Fall, a panel of Phi Beta Kappa alumni from the University judge the essays that are included in the Review, and a monetary award is given, toward the end of the academic year, to the two top pieces. Winners from 1992: Kristina Weisbruch and Melinda Dang. The 1993 editorial board is: Dr. Mark Lowery (faculty advisor), Joseph Meaney (editor-in-chief), Kirk Besmer, Kristina Weisbruch, Brian Woods, Jean Kirwin and Julia Mitchell. CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: SYLVIA DELGADO graduated in 1993 as a Politics major. ROBERT HANSON graduated in 1993 with an English major. JEAN KIRWIN is a senior English major. JOESPH MEANEY graduated in 1993 as a History major. ANGELA RALEY is an undeclared sophomore. RUFEL RAMOS is a senior English major. KEVIN SA YLOR graduated in 1993 as an English major. PAUL SCHLAUD attended UD until Spring 1993 as a Philosophy major. TAMARA ALEXANDRA VOLK graduated as a Biology major; she is now pursuing a second degree in Art with concentrations in painting and art history. KRISTINA WEISBRUCH graduated in 1993 as an English major with a concentration in Spanish. SPECIAL THANKS to [eri Guadagnoli, Department of History/Theology and Ms. Joyce Dempsey of the Universi ty Relations office for their help in publishing the Review. Also, thanks to all faculty who recommended essays. Constantin College, University of Dallas, Irving, TX 75062 KANT'S PROPOSAL FOR A HISTORY OF MAN Robert Hanson Immanuel Kant has written three essays that discuss the need to understand the goal toward which men's lives are directed and the reasons men must undergo all of the trials of their lives. Kant covers these topics in the seven theses of his essay Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (published in November, 1784) in which he makes a plea for the composition of a history of man that would enable the thoughtful person to discern the rationale of nature and to discover the end to which nature continuously guides mankind. Kant expands his theses in two subsequent essays. In the essay An Answer to the Ouestion:What is Enlightenment? (published in December, 1784) Kant delineates a method for man's escape from his "self imposed immaturity" which inhibits his journey toward the objective that nature has destined for him. Finally, in the essay Speculative Beginnings of Human History (published in January, 1786) Kant puts before his readers a brief examination of the development of morality of mankind as an example of a philosophical history of man. With these essays Kant expounds man's need to be aware of the direction of their lives. Kant believes that a man who studies history will observe the steady progress that man makes toward an end. Kant hopes that, if someone were to compose a history that was not solely concerned with empirical knowledge of the past but that also would seek to comprehend the continuum from the past into the future, such a history would enable man to ascertain the ultimate objective that Nature has designed for him and with this knowledge, direct all of his efforts toward attaining that objective. Kant then delves into the topics that must be addressed in such a philosophical history: the nature of creation, the nature of man and his end, the means to man's end, and the paradoxes that are encountered in the effort to attain that end. In the first of the seven theses in his Universal History Kant states that all creatures, and hence all men, have a specific purpose in Nature's plan. He says that this destiny is evident to all who closely observe nature. Kant adds, however, that it is also necessary to assume that man has a destiny; otherwise, man's entire existence is based on chance--a view that can lead man to despair of a purpose for his existence. Man's purpose, according to Kant's second thesis, is to attain the full use of his reason. Reason elevates man above the instinctive strictures that bind the animals. Adam, for example, existed as an instinctive creature until reason was awakened in him. With the use of his new-found reason, man is able to expand his knowledge beyond what he knows empirically. This new knowledge, however, often contradicts Nature because man's imagination has a powerful guiding role in the formation of that knowledge (B.H.H. 111.8). Such a knowledge often imitates the voice of Nature to create what seems to be natural desires for things that are actually not suited for man resulting in a disruption of Nature's order and causing man hardship (B.H.H. 112.3). Through the wisdom of succeeding generations, mankind will gradually build upon the experience of these hardships, and after a reflection on the successes and failures that he observes in history, man will eventually achieve the objective that was destined for him by Nature. Kant states that all of man's efforts must be directed toward nature's objective because man's natural abilities are wasted if they do not bring him to his end. Nature's objective is a topic that concerns many philosophers because by looking toward that objective they will discover "the guiding thread"! which will help them to understand man's conduct as history progresses. The Constantin Review 3 Kant's third thesis in the Universal History states that nature is concerned only with man's being capable of achieving happiness and perfection. According to Kant, Nature actually desires that man not be contented in order that he may be stimulated toward his end (U.H.21.9). If man, therefore, is to actually experience happiness or perfection, he must secure it for himself through the use of the faculty of reason which nature has supplied. Life in a society is the means for man to attain his end of perfection. In his fourth thesis Kant states that the competition among members of a society (what he calls man's "unsocial sociability") arouses an individual's desire to perfect his abilities so as to better his position in society. Without such stimulus, man would forever be contented with what Kant later calls "bovine contentment" -- the enjoyment of the simple pleasures of a life that is uncomplicated but not in conformity with Nature's designs. Kant therefore states with a bit of irony: Thanks be to nature for the incompatibility, for the distasteful, competitive vanity, for the insatiable desire to possess and also to rule. (U.H.21.8) For it is this fertilizer that enriches the soil in which are grown order and culture: the results of an individual's striving for personal perfection. With society, however, comes paradox. Man is compelled to seek a society by his desire to attain perfection. The society he chooses must allow as much freedom as possible, however, because without freedom man will not be able to exercise his will, and Nature's designs will be thwarted. The paradox lies in the fact that inherent in any society is a sacrifice of freedom.
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