Search for dissertations about: "maxims"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word maxims.

  2. 1. Morality and the Pursuit of Happiness : A Study in Kantian Ethics

    Author : Johan Brännmark; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Systematic philosophy; Henry Sidgwick; G. E. Moore; wide reflective equilibrium; metaphysics of the person; Ethics; value; moral realism; social constructivism; philosophy of action; theories of motivation; the dualism of practical reason; the highest good; happiness; virtue; the categorical imperative; maxims; moral principles; Immanuel Kant; moral judgment; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

    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

  4. 2. Aristotle in the Greek gnomological tradition

    Author : Denis M. Searby; Jan Fredrik Kindstrand; Dimitri Gutas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical philology - general; anthology; apophthegm; Aristotle; chreia; Chreiae of Aristotle; CorpusParisinum; Diogenes Laertius; florilegium; gnome; gnomology; Gnomologium Parisinum Ineditum; Gnomologium Vaticanum; Greek gnomological tradition; LociCommunes; maxim; ps.-Maximus; Stobaeus; wise sayings; Klassiska språk - allmänt; Classical Greek language; Klassisk grekiska; Greek; Grekiska;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of a new collection of maxims and apophthegms associatedwith Aristotle in the Greek gnomologies along with an introduction to the sources and acommentary on the content of the sayings. The major sources have been DiogenesLaertius, the anthology of Stobaeus, Gnomologium Vaticanum and related collections,cod. Par. gr. READ MORE

  5. 3. The meaning of caring as narrated, lived, moral experience

    Author : Gunilla Åström; Astrid Norberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Caring; lived moral experience; difficult caring situations; nurses; patients; narration; Paul Tillich;

    Abstract : The purpose of this research was to understand the meaning of caring as narrated, lived, moral experience. Forty-five good nurses experienced in the care of patients in surgical, medical and geriatric wards were interviewed. READ MORE

  6. 4. Transcendental idealism and the organism : essays on Kant

    Author : Marcel Quarfood; Dugald Murdoch; Camilla Serck-Hanssen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kant; things in themselves; transcendental idealism; perspective; intelligible world; epigenesis; biological functions; teleology; organism; antinomy; regulative maxim; discursivity; acquisitio originaria; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Abstract : The notion of the organism has a somewhat ambiguous status in Kant’s philosophy. On the one hand it belongs to natural science, on the other hand it is based on an analogy with the structure of reason. Biology therefore has a peculiar place among the sciences according to Kant: it is a natural science constituted by the use of a regulative maxim. READ MORE