Student Conference

FREEDOM AS LOVE Armando Olgin's abstract

Personal freedom is key to the finding of one’s true love. People spend a good amount of their lives looking for “the one”. According to the Lacanian Perspectives on Love, the one is thought to be “the other half of one’s soul who is yet to be found somewhere in life’s journey” (1998). Freud believes that Eros plays a great deal in love. Eros is known for being one of two instincts, which is responsible for humans craving unity, preservation and bringing together things, individuals and entities. Lacan got the idea of love being a drive towards union with the love object, from Freud.

PAINT IT RED Shagun Kaza's abstract

STREET'S LIFE Stephanie Menjivar Quijano's abstract

MORALITY HINDERS SELF-EXPRESSION Jennifer Maqueda's abstract

FREEDOM AND SOCIETY Fatima Perez's abstract

FATE AND FREEWILL Maluc Nawabi's abstract

SELF VS SOCIETY Malay Toston's abstract

According to R.D Laing the experience in which we go through can differ from person to person. Our society affects our lives. We can be different people if we are raised in Oakland or in southern California. There are ways in which society can affect individuality, our drive, our minds and our souls

Hailey Hicks' abstract

Why do we accept rules?
Many of us may not know why we accept rules, perhaps it’s what we’ve been taught? However, one with a rebellious nature may have asked this question numerous times throughout their life. John Locke, a well known philosopher for a quote such as “ life, liberty and property,” may give a reasoning argument, as to why following rules is essential.

Liam Landy's abstract

A Reason to Live
How many times in your life have you asked yourself: What’s the point? Why was I born on this planet? Is there really any meaning to all the hardships I go through? According to the Stoic philosopher Seneca, there is indeed a reason to live. Seneca asserts that meaning is found through virtue. He believed virtue or correct action was meaning in itself because being a virtuous person makes a better world and it makes one a content human being. We all ultimately long for meaning even if we are looking in the wrong places. Many believe that human existence is pointless and that we have little other reason to be here on this planet besides existing itself but life is so much more than this and everyone must find meaning through living a virtuous existence if they want a fulfilling life.

Malique's Abstract!
What is an idea

What is the definition of an idea? Where does an idea come from? It is strictly a spiritual and internal experience? Is there a reason for why humans have the ability to form ideas and concepts? Or is an idea a balance of the two realms such as Plato argued.

In this paper I will discuss the concept of an idea and why it cannot be an internal manifestation prompted by some spiritual connection, and why I disagree with Plato’s two realm theory of ideas. In the first section of my paper I will discuss Plato’s concepts from Phaedo, I will then speak of the theory of ideas through an experience such as spoken of in Locke’s The Origin of Ideas and the behavioristic theory of ideas discussed E.C. Tolman’s A behavioristic theory of ideas.

The overall concept of my paper will focus on the science behind the development of an idea, and proving that an idea has no relation to a spiritual realm.