Search for dissertations about: "universalism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word universalism.
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1. Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: From the Rights of Man to Human Rights
Abstract : In recent decades, a ‘Haitian Turn’ has emerged as both academic and public readerships in the anglophone sphere have been flooded by a wave of essays, articles, and monographs on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). At the epicentre of the present study is one of the major interpretations of the Haitian Revolution in the Haitian Turn, which I call the ‘universality paradigm’. READ MORE
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2. Globalization, Justice, and Communication : A Critical Study of Global Ethics
Abstract : The purpose of this study is to seek to an answer to the question of what constitutes a tenable model for global ethics. This is done in part by a critical engagement with four different models of global ethics; two proposals from political philosophy and two contributions from theological ethics. READ MORE
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3. For the Benefit of Everyone? : Explaining the Significance of Swedish Public Housing for Urban Housing Inequality
Abstract : Housing has a special place in the Swedish welfare state. Ever since Gustav Möller, Minister for Social Affairs, in 1945 was handed the result of Bostadssociala utredningen, a state investigation on housing from a social perspective, housing has been a bearing pillar in the Swedish ‘Folkhem’. READ MORE
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4. Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism
Abstract : In this reading a notion of the human is developed through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Emanuel Levinas. The argument is that, with the help of Levinas, it is possible for the idea of the human to be understood anew, for the notion to be ‘resaid’. READ MORE
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5. Community, Justice, and Freedom : Liberalism, Communitarianism, and African Contributions to Political Ethics
Abstract : This study deals with theories of community, justice, and freedom within liberalism, communitarianism, African philosophy and theology. The study maintains that there are different latitudes on how to formulate and articulate theories of community, justice and freedom informed by particualr moral experiences with bearing on different views of human. READ MORE