Table of Contents: Volume 4, Issue 1
Volume Four
Editor-in-Chief: Franz S. Klein (PhD Candidate, Literature)
Managing Editor: Adam Cooper (PhD Candidate, Literature)
Editors:
Jennifer Fast (PhD Student, Literature)
Tiffany Niebuhr (PhD Candidate, Literature)
Pavlos L. Papadopoulos (PhD Student, Politics)
Mark Wampler (MA Student, Philosophy)
Faculty Advisor
Joshua Parens (Philosophy)
Faculty Review Board
Debra Romanick Baldwin (Literature) Brett Bourbon (Literature)
Richard Dougherty (Politics) Jacob-Ivan Eidt (Modern Languages)
Andrew Glicksman (Theology) Matthew Walz (Philosophy)
Ramify thanks the following faculty members for their support:
Bainard Cowan (Literature) Scott Crider (Literature)
Jonathan Culp (Politics) William Frank (Philosophy)
Eileen Gregory (Literature) Theresa Kenney (Literature)
Stephen Maddux (Modern Languages) Lance Simmons (Philosophy)
Ramify thanks our financial supporters:
Braniff Graduate Student Association, Monica Eichman, President
Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, David Sweet, Dean
ISSN 2158-5784
Visions of Excellence: Jacob Klein, Leo Strauss, and Louise Cowan on Liberal Education
by Christopher Lynch
‘Hand of God’
visual artwork by Jessie Martinez
The Mortal Race: Mankind and the First of the Funeral Games of Patroclus
by Carle T. Mock
Hephaestus’s Mortally-Inspired Art
by Matthew Spring
‘The Wise Thing Is Not Wisdom’: Dionysian Power and Human Response in Euripides’s Bacchae
by Michael D. Terranova
Aristotle’s Manner of Writing and the Responsible Pursuit of Political Philosophy
by Pavlos L. Papadopoulos
The Reason of Faith: An Exploration of Anselm’s Dynamic Phrase ‘Ratio Fidei’
by John F. Rico
‘Intuition’
visual artwork by Michael A. Farmer
Three Poems by Valéry: ‘The Spinner,’ ‘Helen,’ ‘The Cincture’
translated by William Turnage
‘The Pursuit of Wisdom, of Truth, and of Virtue’: The Core and the Catholic University
by Richard J. Dougherty