Date of Award

4-1933

Degree Type

Bachelors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

George E. Vander Beke

Abstract

For centuries the puppets and marionettes have held an important place in philosophy and the theater world. A simile comparing mankind with puppets with the gods controlling the strings has long been the favorite of the philosophers. Plato compared man with a doll and his passions to the strings which caused its movements and actions. Aristotle told man to be a puppet of wood to be controlled or guided not by men like themselves, but by the Superior Being.

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A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of The College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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