Search for dissertations about: "secular ethics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words secular ethics.

  2. 1. The Moral Rubicon. A Study of the Principles of Sanctity of Life and Quality of Life in Bioethics

    Author : Axel Carlberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular ethics; bioethics; sanctity of life; quality of life; procedural ethics; utilitarianism; deontology; Peter Singer; Helga Kuhse; H.T. Engelhardt; Theology; Teologi;

    Abstract : The principles of sanctity of life and quality of life are often appealed to in medical decisions at the "edges of life." Notwithstanding their importance in bioethics, these principles are still badly understood. This study is an attempt to clarify their normative significance and content. READ MORE

  4. 2. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws

    Author : Anders Hallengren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ; natural law; ethics; aesthetics; esthetics; politics; USA; ethics and physics; laws of nature; laws of society; laws of art; American literature; American philosophy; American history; legal philosophy; constitutional law; human rights; rule of law; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; Public law; Offentlig rätt; Other law; Övrig rätt; Theory of science; Vetenskapsteori; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

    Abstract : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. READ MORE

  5. 3. Living Simultaneity: On religion among semi-secular Swedes

    Author : Ann af Burén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; simultaneity; semi-secular; liminal; secularity; religious incongruence; fuzzy fidelity; the subjective turn; lived religion; the inadequacy approach; religious and secular; Stockholm; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at contributing to a critical discussion on the supposedly far-reaching secularity of Sweden on the one hand, and on the incongruence and inconsistency of lived religion on the other. At the center are people referred to as semi-secular Swedes – a group that is often neglected in the study of religion. READ MORE

  6. 4. Living Simultaneity : On religion among semi-secular Swedes

    Author : Ann af Burén; David Thurfjell; Åke Sander; Lois Lee; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; simultaneity; semi-secular; liminal; secularity; religious incongruence; fuzzy fidelity; the subjective turn; lived religion; the inadequacy approach; religious and secular; Stockholm; Sweden; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at contributing to a critical discussion on the supposedly far-reaching secularity of Sweden on the one hand, and on the incongruence and inconsistency of lived religion on the other. At the center are people referred to as semi-secular Swedes – a group that is often neglected in the study of religion. READ MORE

  7. 5. Unfit to live among others : Essays on the ethics of imprisonment

    Author : William Bülow; Till Grüne-Yanoff; Christopher Bennett; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Applied Ethics; Collateral Harm; Communicative Theory of Punishment; Democratic Self- determination; Doctrine of Double Effect; Felon Disenfranchisement; Imprisonment; Legal Punishment; Practical Philosophy; Philosophy of Punishment; Privacy; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an ethical analysis of imprisonment as a mode of punishment. Consisting in an introduction and four papers the thesis addresses several important questions concerning imprisonment from a number of different perspectives and theoretical starting points. READ MORE