Search for dissertations about: "ancient philosophy"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 44 swedish dissertations containing the words ancient philosophy.

  2. 21. Promise, Protection, and Prosperity. Aspects of the "Shield" as a Religious Relational Metaphor in an Ancient Near Eastern Perspective. An Iconographical and Textual Analysis

    Author : Arne Wiig; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theology; Assyria; Egypt; Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near East; relational metaphor; shield metaphor; Metaphor theory; shield; Teologi;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses the religious metaphorical use of different words for "shield" in the Hebrew Bible and Egyptian and Assyrian literature. The literary contexts in the analysis are delimited based on the observation that they share a similar view of divine intervention in war and an analogous view of the enemy. READ MORE

  4. 22. Herodotus and the Origins of Political Philosophy : The Beginnings of Western Thought from the Viewpoint of its Impending End

    Author : Otto H. Linderborg; Johan Tralau; Eric Cullhed; Elton Barker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Herodotus; Herodotean studies; origins of political philosophy; origins of political theory; early history of political thought; beginnings of Western civilization; contemporary social analysis; Sino-Hellenic studies; Grekiska; Greek;

    Abstract : This investigation proposes a historical theory of the origins of political philosophy. It is assumed that political philosophy was made possible by a new form of political thinking commencing with the inauguration of the first direct democracies in Ancient Greece. READ MORE

  5. 23. A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650

    Author : Matthew Norris; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bureus; Antiquarianism; History of Scholarship; Runology; History of Writing; Ancient Wisdom;

    Abstract : At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon described the antiquarian scholars of previous generations as men of “profound learning and easy faith.” His exemplar was the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who in a series of frantic and combative tomes sought to portray Sweden as the model for Plato’s Atlantis and the seething cultural cauldron from which Western civilization had emerged. READ MORE

  6. 24. Early Christian Determinism : A Study of The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate

    Author : Paul Linjamaa; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Tripartite Tractate; Determinism; Christian Ethics; Free Will; Origen of Alexandria; Nag Hammadi Texts; Valentinianism; Emotions; Ancient Epistemology; Early Alexandrian Christianity;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the ethics of the Nag Hammadi text, The Tripartite Tractate. This text, the fifth tractate in Nag Hammadi Codex I, has received comparatively little attention, although it is the most detailed Valentinian treaty still extant. READ MORE

  7. 25. Evocatio deorum : Historical and mythical interpretations of ritualised conquests in the expansion of ancient Rome

    Author : Gabriella Gustafsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Roman religion; evocatio; devotio; Livy; Macrobius; Servius; Veii; myth; historiography; theology of history; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : The dissertation examines the historical evidence, and the historiographical and mythical aspects of the sources, of the evocatio-ritual of Republican Rome. According to some ancient sources, the tutelary deity of an enemy city was, just before a conquest, "called out", that is, asked to abandon the city and promised a new temple in Rome. READ MORE