Search for dissertations about: "Moral examination"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words Moral examination.
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1. Family therapy as collaborative work
Abstract : The present investigation forms a part of a larger project on family therapy talk "Family therapy and social interaction". Discourse analyses are based on different subsets of more than a hundred videotaped family therapy sessions (with 20 families) and post-therapy interviews with the families and their therapists. READ MORE
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2. Cultivating humanity in science education : A capabilities approach to students' critical examination of public issues in science education
Abstract : This dissertation is about science education as an education for citizenship with a particular focus on the potential of inviting students to participate in critical examination of public issues in the media. Through digital media, a vast amount of health-related information is readily available to the public. READ MORE
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3. Back to the Woods or Into Ourselves? : Kant, Rousseau and the Search for the Essence of Human Nature
Abstract : This thesis contributes to a field of Kant’s practical philosophy that has received renewed attention, namely his moral anthropology. While it is true that Kant, in some of his best-known writings, literally says that the fundamental ground of morality must be pure and thus entirely free from admixture with anthropological principles, he nevertheless admits that these “subjective conditions” in human nature that “either hinder or help people in fulfilling the laws of the metaphysics of morals” make up the foundation of all applied ethics. READ MORE
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4. Reconciliation and the Search for a Shared Moral Landscape – An exploration based upon a study of Northern Ireland and South Africa
Abstract : In Northern Ireland and South Africa obstacles to reconciliation were found in these elements of a “moral landscape”: – Experiences of trauma, separation and inequalities, – Divergent views of the conflict and of “the other”, – Opposing identifications and loyalties, – Norms for interaction, – Contestant interpretations of values such as “peace” and “justice”. This study describes how these obstacles have been addressed in: 1) Efforts, particularly by ecumenical groups, to bridge the Catholic/Protestant divide in Northern Ireland. READ MORE
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5. Biblical Allusion in Three Charles Dickens Condition-of-England Novels
Abstract : This study investigates how Charles Dickens employs biblical allusion in three Condition-of-England novels: Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57). Drawing on the concepts of dialogism and stratification defined by M. M. Bakhtin and rhetorical situation by Lloyd F. READ MORE
