Search for dissertations about: "resentment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word resentment.
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1. Payback Time : Essays on Attitudes, Partiality, and Rescuing
Abstract : Does the moral quality of someone’s past treatment of us, or of other people, change how we are morally permitted or required to treat them? Many philosophers think so. They argue, for instance, that someone’s supererogatory or impermissible behaviour can permit or require certain positive or negative attitudinal responses, such as gratitude or resentment. READ MORE
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2. Portraits of women in selected novels by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster
Abstract : Female characters in novels by Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster are studied in their relationships as wives, mothers, daughters and prospective brides. The novels selected are those where the writers are concerned with families dominated by Victorian ideals. READ MORE
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3. The Duality of Moral Language : On Hybrid Theories in Metaethics
Abstract : Moral language displays a characteristic duality. On the one hand, moral claims seem to be similar to descriptive claims: To say that an act is right (or wrong) seems to be a matter of making an assertion, thus indicating that the speaker has a moral belief about which she can be correct or mistaken. READ MORE
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4. God Rests in Rwanda : The Role of Religion in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Abstract : This study analyses the role of religion in the Rwandan genocide, providing new explanations to the complex dynamics of devaluation and victimisation processes in genocidal violence. The thesis explains how religion was used in different contexts prior to, during, and after the 1994 genocide. READ MORE
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5. Sweet Battlefields : Youth and the Liberian Civil War
Abstract : This dissertation presents an ethnography of youth in Liberia and of how their lives became affected by a civil war which raged in the country between 1990 and 1997. The focus is on the experiences, motivations, and reflections of young combatants who fought for a variety of rebel factions. READ MORE