Search for dissertations about: "moral motivation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words moral motivation.
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1. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism
Abstract : The main aim of this thesis is to defend moral realism. In chapter 1, I argue that moral realism is best understood as the view that (1) moral sentences have truth-value (cognitivism), (2) there are moral properties that make some moral sentences true (success-theory), and (3) moral properties are not reducible to non-moral properties (non-reductionism). READ MORE
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2. Moral internalism : An Essay in Moral Psychology
Abstract : An ancient but central divide in moral philosophy concerns the nature of opinions about what is morally wrong or what our moral duties are. Some philosophers argue that moral motivation is internal to moral opinions: that moral opinions consist of motivational states such as desires or emotions. READ MORE
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3. Moved by Morality : An Essay on the Practicality of Moral Thought and Talk
Abstract : It is part of our everyday experience that there is a reliable connection between moral opinions and motivation. Thinking that an act is right (wrong) tends to be accompanied by motivation to (avoid to) perform the act in question. This is mirrored in moral talk. 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
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5. Behaving as a Christ‐Believer : A Cognitive Perspective on Identity and Behavior Norms in Ephesians
Abstract : This study contributes to the understanding of how first century Christ-believers, particularly those who shared the imagination of Ephesians, experienced the relation between their social identity as Christ-believers and behavior norms. In order to understand this, a number of theories from the cognitive sciences are used in combination with historical-critical methods. READ MORE