Search for dissertations about: "evil"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word evil.

  2. 1. The moral import of evil : on counterbalancing death, suffering, and degradation

    Author : Ragnar Ohlsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Good and evil; Ondska;

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  4. 2. God and the Origin of Evil: A Contextual Analysis of Alleged Monistic Evidence in the Old Testament

    Author : Fredrik Lindström; Bibelvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Evil; God; suffering; monism; Old Testament;

    Abstract : This book is dedicated to the study of a problem which Biblical research has regarded a a central aspect of the OT understanding of God, namely, the thesis that the Deity was held to be the immediate author of all evils affecting both the individual and the nation of Israel a a whole. Examination of the exegetical literature dealing with this problem reveals that scholars have thought to find support for this view in passages of two types, in part in texts which explicitly place responsibility for evil with God, and in part in texts which seem to indicate that a demonic element was incorporated into the Deity via a process of identification. READ MORE

  5. 3. Evil eye or bacteria : Turkish migrant women and Swedish health care

    Author : Lisbeth Sachs; Stockholms universitet; []
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  6. 4. Swinburne's Flowers of evil : Baudelaire's influence on Poems and ballads, first series

    Author : Anne Walder; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

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  7. 5. Falling Freely : Anselm of Canterbury on the Will

    Author : Tomas Ekenberg; Lilli Alanen; Mikko Yrjönsuuri; Calvin Normore; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Anselm of Canterbury; will; choice; action; free will; determinism; metaphysics; ethics; evil; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

    Abstract : This thesis clarifies the concept of will in Anselm of Canterbury in the context of his overall theologico-philosophical project. The will is central to Anselm's understanding of freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii), which he defines as “the power to keep rightness of will”. READ MORE