Sökning: "Moral Worth"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 uppsatser innehållade orden Moral Worth.
1. The Emperor's Free Will
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriSammanfattning : Free will has commonly been used in the philosophical community to justify and ground the concept of moral responsibility. I will attempt to argue that this connection is unjustified. LÄS MER
2. Moral Worth, Moral Awareness, and Virtuous Motives
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för praktisk filosofiSammanfattning : Morally worthy actions are morally exemplary actions. They are the result of an agent manifesting his virtue. However, the details are controversial. What should the morally exemplary agent care about and what does it mean to be morally aware? In this paper, I examine these questions and present a novel account of morally worthy action. LÄS MER
3. Avliva eller låta leva? : en etisk diskussion om att väga sällskapsdjurs livskvalité och lidande
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and HealthSammanfattning : Denna studie har tre syften. Det första är att undersöka hur djurägare och veterinärer ser på lidande, livskvalité och beslut om avlivning av sällskapsdjur. LÄS MER
4. The Consequentialist Strikes Back : A Discussion of Boonin’s Response to the Nonidentity Problem and Why a Consequentialist Approach is Preferable
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenSammanfattning : The nonidentity problem is the issue of how to justify the belief that it is wrong to bring a person into existence if they would have a flawed life, though still worth living, instead of bringing another, nonidentical person into existence who would have a better life. To have an impaired life that is worth living seems to be a good existence, at least for the person in question. LÄS MER
5. Quests for knowledge and social mobility : Vocational and on-the-job-training as navigational tactics in the urban labour market of Sierra Leone
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiSammanfattning : This ethnographic study investigates the experiences of those learning tailoring and trading in Freetown, Sierra Leone via apprenticeships, other on-the-job training or Technical and Vocational Education and Training programs (TVET). I examine these forms of occupational training by investigating the practices underway, how knowledge transmission occurs, as well as why learners engage with and what they get out of these activities. LÄS MER