Sökning: "Philosophical Anthropology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden Philosophical Anthropology.
1. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis aims at formulating a human rights justification based on the assumption that disbelief in human rights is found in communicative grounds, rather than some sort of unreasonable evil. I first identify what I believe to be a flaw in the communicative strength of existing human rights justifications in explaining why rights should be. LÄS MER
2. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiSammanfattning : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. LÄS MER
3. Skapad ex nihilo. Om skapelsens konsekvenser för människans vara
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : This thesis discusses the existential consequences for the human being in creatio ex nihilo, where the main subjects of discussion are contingency, freedom and identity. The starting-point of the discussion lies in the presentation of the history of the doctrine of creation, especially the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo. LÄS MER
4. Kunskap och handling : En studie av klassifikationens problematik
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMSammanfattning : In this master's thesis classification is put into the bigger context of other human capacities of knowledge and action such as perception, language and categorization. By studying and analyzing recent research on categorization in psychology, anthropology and cognitive science and interpreting it through the philosophy of Henri Bergson the thesis demonstrates how knowledge and action are two sides of the same coin and how this insight is a must for a proper understanding of classification. LÄS MER
5. Jag är någon annan : Psykiatrikerna Karl Jaspers och Viktor Emil von Gebsattels filosofiska perspektiv på depersonalisation
Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoriaSammanfattning : Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka psykiatrikerna och filosoferna Viktor Emil von Gebsattels och Karl Jaspers föreställningar om ett psykiskt fenomen de besriver som depersonalisation. Uppsatsen analyserar deras respektive föreställningar om fenomenet med särskilt tonvikt på skärningspunkter mellan psykiatri och filosofi. LÄS MER
