Search for dissertations about: "perfection"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the word perfection.

  2. 1. Perfection and Fiction : A study in Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy

    Author : Frits Gåvertsson; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iris Murdoch; Perfectionism; Philosophy and Literature; Literary Turn; Moral Philosophy; Ethics;

    Abstract : This thesis comprises a study of the ethical thought of Iris Murdoch with special emphasis, as evidenced by the title, on how morality is intimately connected to self-improvement aiming at perfection and how the study of (literary) fiction has an important role to play in our strive towards bettering ourselves within the framework set by Murdoch’s moral philosophy.. READ MORE

  4. 2. Leibniz on Agency and Force

    Author : Peter Myrdal; Lilli Alanen; Pauliina Remes; John Carriero; Michael Della Rocca; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Leibniz; Gottfried Wilhelm; 1646-1716; Early Modern Philosophy; Agency; Force; Final causes; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This is a study of Leibniz’s theory of agency – his theory of the nature of causal powers and agents. Leibniz develops his view against the background of an Aristotelian conception of agency. The latter was rejected by many early modern philosophers in the wake of the mechanist conception of the natural world. READ MORE

  5. 3. Scientifically Minded : Science, the Subject and Kant’s Critical Philosophy

    Author : Johan Boberg; Sharon Rider; Marcel Quarfood; Thomas Sturm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Immanuel Kant; the subject; science; experience; understanding; episteme; time; space; spatialization of time; epistemic ideals; knowledge; Christian Wolff; Aristotle; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : Modern philosophy is often seen as characterized by a shift of focus from the things themselves to our knowledge of them, i.e., by a turn to the subject and subjectivity. READ MORE

  6. 4. Spaces of Encounter: Art and Revision in Human Animal Relations

    Author : Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; animal studies; artistic research; conceptual art; contemporary art; contextual art; fine art research; installation art; photography; post-humanism; relational art; Snæbjörnsdóttir Wilson; site-specific art; taxidermy.;

    Abstract : This PhD project explores contemporary Western human relationships with animals through a ‘relational’ art practice. It centres on three art projects produced by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson – nanoq: flat out and bluesome; (a)fly; and seal – that utilize lens-based media and installations. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Fallen World in Coleridge’s Poetry

    Author : Agneta Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical associations; biblical imagery in poetry; Romantic literary theory; the Fallen World; religion in seventeenth-century poetry; Paradise Lost; Milton; Christianity and literature; Coleridge; religion in Romantic poetry; typology in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This study examines the motif of the Fallen World in Coleridge’s major poems The Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan . The use of Milton’s Paradise Lost as an intertextual foil throughout allows themes and metaphors inherent in the Fallen World motif to emerge in Coleridge’s poetry. READ MORE