Sökning: "metaphysics"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 92 uppsatser innehållade ordet metaphysics.

1. 21. Skrattets makt : En filosofisk undersökning av komiken som meningsskapande existentiell nödvändighet

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Jessica Karlén; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Comedy; Critchley; Bergson; Freud; Dennett; Politics; Standup; Metaphysics; Burke; Evolution; History; Theology; Comedian; Censorship; Creativity; South Africa; Laughter; Humor; Humor; skratt; komik;

   Sammanfattning : The subject of this paper is the philosophy of comedy. It is an orientation through history of laughter and its connection to the essence of comedy. This investigation tries to pinpoint some characteristics of the comedian and the task of the comedian today, focusing primarily on comedy in the public sphere. LÄS MER

3. 22. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Rita Rubnell Spolander; [2019]
   Nyckelord :value; metaphysics; philosophy of language; philosophical anthropology; conceptual schemes; primitive reactions; agency; värde; metafysik; språkfilosofi; filosofisk antropologi; primitiva reaktioner; agens;

   Sammanfattning : 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

4. 23. Skicklighetens metafysik : särskiljande egenskaper hos kunnande och vetande

   Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Författare :Per Boqvist; [2019]
   Nyckelord :knowledge; knowledge-how; knowledge-that; epistemology; skill; novelty objection; embedded questions; theoretical knowledge; practical knowledge; context sensitivity; kunskap; kunskapsteori; epistemologi; skicklighet; färdighet; förmåga; vetande; kunnande; teoretisk kunskap; praktisk kunskap; Jason Stanley; Gilbert Ryle; intellektualism; anti-intellektualism; kontextkänslighet;

   Sammanfattning : Hur relaterar vetande och kunnande till varandra? Om jag vet att jorden är rund har jag kunskap om ett faktum och om jag kan cykla har jag en förmåga att utföra en viss handling. På ytan verkar detta handla om olika saker. Intellektualismen är en filosofisk uppfattning som säger att kunnande är en form av vetande. LÄS MER

5. 24. Ancient Egyptian Philosophy : or a chimaera of the popular significance

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Egyptologi

   Författare :Christofer Sandström; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Ancient Egyptian Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates a continuously held assumption, within the field of Egyptology, that undertakes to derive classical Hellenic philosophy from a previous philosophical tradition, initiated centuries before in ancient Egypt. The study will proceed with an initial clarification of ancient Greek philosophy, and a brief outline of some topics from its main research fields: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and philosophy of mind. LÄS MER

7. 25. Beyond the Betrayal of Language : On the Role of Skepticism in Otherwise than Being

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Författare :Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi; [2018]
   Nyckelord :levinas; metaphysics; discourse; metaphilosophy; scepticism; language philosophy; ethics; otherism; dialogue; levinas; metafysik; diskurs; metafilosofi; skepticism; språkfilosofi; etik; dialog;

   Sammanfattning : In Otherwise than Being (1974), Levinas asked if and how philosophy could make justice of the concrete ethical meeting by philosophical practice, which is unconditionally conditioned by language. Language, understood as partly situated in being and ontology, is analysed as an appropriation of the other, who is other than being. LÄS MER