Sökning: "Moral agency"

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  1. 6. Ethics after the Apocalypse : Teaching Right and Wrong through and Analysis of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Författare :Rim Winssi; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Cormac McCarthy; The Road; Ethics; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Ethics; Swedish National Agency of Education; English; Philosophy; Upper-secondary school;

    Sammanfattning : In our world and our modern society, we have laws, ethics, morality, and religion that guide us, teaching us the basic principles of what is right and what is wrong, and what is good and what is bad. However, what would happen if all of these guides suddenly cease to exist? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this is exactly what happens. LÄS MER

  3. 7. EMPOWERING CITIZEN-DRIVEN SUSTAINABILITY: Supporting Local Management of Waste in Costa Rica

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Författare :Almina Bergstrand; [2022-08-23]
    Nyckelord :Waste Management; Costa Rica; Sustainable Development; Moral Values; Circular Flows; Power Relations;

    Sammanfattning : This paper is a result of a Minor Field Study (MFS) performed in Costa Rica and funded by the Swedish public authority SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The aim of this study was to examine how locally based actors implement strategies towards sustainable development regarding waste management in a small village in Costa Rica. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Philosophical Zombies and Moral Responsibility : An Analysis of Whether Philosophical Zombies Would Have Moral Responsibility or Not

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Författare :Rim Winssi; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Philosophical zombies; Consciousness; Moral responsibility; Moral agency; The Tripartite Theory of Responsibility; Attributability; Answerability; Accountability; Psychopaths; AI;

    Sammanfattning : Philosophical zombies are beings that look exactly like humans and behave in the same way as humans do. The only difference between humans and philosophical zombies is that philosophical zombies lack consciousness. This means that they can complain, cry, laugh and say that they are in pain. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Äta djävlar, föda ord : Om återkommande groteska motiv i Mikael Niemis romaner Kyrkdjävulen, Populärmusik från Vittula, Fallvatten och Koka björn

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Marie Östling; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Mikael Niemi; Niemi; Populärmusik från Vittula; Fallvatten; Koka björn; Kyrkdjävulen; grotesk; grotesken; Bachtin; karneval; Tornedalen; tornedalslitteratur; norrlandslitteratur; minoritet; minoritetslitteratur; Sara Ahmed; Kristeva; Freud; abjekt; det abjekta; det kusliga; das unheimliche; äckel; meänkieli; knapsu; ei se kannatte;

    Sammanfattning : This essay deals with recurring grotesque motifs in Mikael Niemi’s novels Kyrkdjävulen, Populärmusik från Vittula (Popular Music from Vittula), Fallvatten and Koka björn (To Cook a Bear). It aims to widen the academic understanding of Niemi’s works by focusing on their aesthetics in relation to previous studies, which have mostly been concerned with placing Niemi in a context of Tornedalian minority literature. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Non-fungible tokens: tracing shifts in the art market

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Författare :Julius Woeste; [2022]
    Nyckelord :NFT; art market; actor-network theory; Bourdieu; cartography of controversies;

    Sammanfattning : Given the advent and market boom of NFTs, this thesis concerns itself with observing how NFTs are shifting the art market, and how those shifts can be explained, as the two seemingly disparate markets have different actors, processes and characteristics. In order to answer these questions the thesis takes an abductive case study design and employs an actor-network theory (ANT) approach to observe shifts in the markets by both human and non-human actors. LÄS MER