Aesthetics and the Renaissance
Final Paper – Botticelli’s Primavera
Spring 2005
W. Thomas Grové
The Primavera, a masterpiece by Botticelli, is a quintessential illustration of the Neo-Platonic revival of the Renaissance. It is a beautiful image that incorporates and embodies many of the Renaissance themes; love in all of its forms, reason, harmonics, and non-dual direct spiritual realization [...]

Confucianism and Taoism
Final Paper
Autumn, 1999
W. Thomas Grové
In this paper, I will draw a parallel between Taoism and capitalism. This will be accomplished by comparing the origins, ideology and social impact of Taoism with the origins and social impact of the stock market as represented by the Dow Jones Industrial average and the nature of [...]

Confucianism and Taoism
Midterm Paper
W. Thomas Grové
Autumn 1999
Sincerity is one of the most important traits that a sentient being should display. This concept is at the core of Confucianism and, in a perfect world, the core of any religious (or should I say social language) system. In an even more perfect world, sincerity would be displayed [...]