Search for dissertations about: "immortality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word immortality.

2. 1. Cognitive and Moral Psychology in Renaissance Philosophy: A Study of Juan Luis Vives' De anima et vita

   Author : Lorenzo Casini; Lilli Alanen; Simo Knuuttila; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Juan Luis Vives; Renaissance; psychology; self-knowledge; scepticism; soul; body; immortality; perception; imagination; mind; will; memory; emotions.; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the cognitive and moral psychology of Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540), paying close attention to the background out of which his views developed. Vives’ philosophical reflections on the human soul are mainly concentrated in his treatise De anima et vita (1538), which became very influential during the century after its publication. READ MORE

4. 2. Psychê : själens antropologi i det antika Grekland

   Author : Anna Törngren; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; kleos; psychê; history of greek writing; philossophy; oral tradition; immortality; myth; death; Homer; Plato;

   Abstract : The subject of the thesis is the psych�, a Greek word whose closest equivalent is the Swedish ?sj�l?, the English ?soul?, the French ?�me? and the German ?Seele?. The meanings of these words are far from being the same. What is more, the Greek psych� has shifting meanings, both synchronically and diachronically speaking. READ MORE

5. 3. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle

   Author : Tia Stajic Löfgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; decadence in literature; immortality-through-art theme; secularization; art; mortality; love;

   Abstract : Abstract Stajic Löfgren, Tia. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle. University of Gothenburg: Department of Languages and Literatures, 2012. READ MORE

6. 4. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain

   Author : Chris Haffenden; Frans Lundgren; Peter Josephson; Samantha Matthews; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Self-monumentalizing; self-made immortality; history of celebrity; cultural memory; historical consciousness; Jeremy Bentham; Auto-Icon; John Soane; Soane Museum; Benjamin Robert Haydon; autobiography; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

   Abstract : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. READ MORE

7. 5. Studies of molecular mechanisms of telomere maintenance in Naumovozyma castellii

   Author : Ahu Karademir Andersson; Molekylär cellbiologi; []
   Keywords : YEAST; Saccharomyces castellii; Naumovozyma castellii; Processvity; Telomerase; Telomere; ALT; Strain engineering;

   Abstract : Telomeres are special DNA-protein structures that protect ends of chromosomes from being recognized as double-strand breaks. Telomeres consist of tandemly repeated units of TG-rich DNA and associate with telomere-specific proteins. READ MORE