Search for dissertations about: "intrinsic goodness"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words intrinsic goodness.
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1. Axiological Investigations
Abstract : The subject of this thesis is formal axiology, i.e., the discipline that deals with structural and conceptual questions about value. The main focus is on intrinsic or final value. READ MORE
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2. Value Grounded on Attitudes. Subjectivism in Value Theory
Abstract : The thesis examines a specific way of understanding the subjectivist position in value theory according to which subjectivism is the view that value is grounded on attitudes. It is argued that this should be seen as a second-order claim about the nature of value although with pluralistic implications on the substantial, first-order level. READ MORE
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3. The theory of Homo comperiens, the firm’s market price, and the implication for a firm’s profitability
Abstract : This thesis proposes a theory of inefficient markets that uses limited rational choice as a central trait and I call it the theory of Homo comperiens. The theory limits the alternatives and states that the subjects are aware of and only allow them to have rational preference relations on the limited action set and state set, i.e. READ MORE
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4. Morality and the Pursuit of Happiness : A Study in Kantian Ethics
Abstract : This work seeks to develop a Kantian ethical theory in terms of a general ontology of values and norms together with a metaphysics of the person that makes sense of this ontology. It takes as its starting point Kant’s assertion that a good will is the only thing that has an unconditioned value and his accompanying view that the highest good consists in virtue and happiness in proportion to virtue. READ MORE