Search for dissertations about: "Soul"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the word Soul.

  2. 16. 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

  4. 17. Light Design : Outdoor Urban Public Places : - Urban Lighting: Design and Technologies -

    Author : José Nuno Sampaio; Björn-Erik Erlandsson; Izael Pereira Da Silva; KTH; []
    Keywords : Light-based Technologies and Design; Energy Technology; Energiteknik;

    Abstract : Most of the present time outdoor lighting investments seem to be focused on road and automotive traffic facilities or oriented toward safety, security and efficiency. We can identify this in many of the world cities, as a globally spread common practice, where lighting is still highly perceived as a pure matter of quantities’ distribution. READ MORE

  5. 18. The Social Aspect in Plato’s Ethics : The Significance of Human Beings’ Social Nature in Approaching Justice, Wisdom, and Partnership

    Author : Tor Freyr; Pauliina Remes; Panagiotis Dimas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Plato; ethics; justice; wisdom; partnership; happiness; eudaimonia; politikos; Statesman; Republic; Euthydemus; social; human nature; social approach; Philosophy; with specialization in history of philosophy; Filosofi med filosofihistorisk inriktning;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores whether or to what extent the notion that humans are social animals influences Plato’s ethics. The goal is to develop a line of interpreting Plato that is broadly zoological-based; a line that I call the social approach. READ MORE

  6. 19. Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism

    Author : Håkan Håkansson; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; mysticism.; metaphors; symbolism; alchemy; magic; Renaissance philosophy; occultism; Filosofi;

    Abstract : This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield knowledge of both nature and God. READ MORE

  7. 20. Towards Hilaritas : A Study of the Mind-Body Union, the Passions and the Mastery of the Passions in Descartes and Spinoza

    Author : Minna Koivuniemi; Lilli Alanen; Pierre-Francois Moreau; André Gombay; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Theoretical philosophy; Mind-Body Union; Passions; Mastery of the Passions; Spinoza; Descartes; Teoretisk filosofi; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

    Abstract : The study aims to explain the role of external causes in René Descartes’s (1594–1650) and Benedictus de Spinoza’s (1632–1677) accounts of the mastery of the passions. It consists in three parts: the mind-body union, the passions and their classification, and the mastery of the passions. READ MORE