Sökning: "the categorical imperative"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden the categorical imperative.
1. The Dissatisfaction of Utopia in Iain M. Banks's Culture Novels
Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The Culture is a utopian civilization that features in the science-fiction novels of Iain M. Banks that has some claim to be as comprehensively satisfactory and universal in its appeal as possible. LÄS MER
2. Immanuel Kant och absolutismen: Huruvida Kant verkligen var absolutist i relation till ärlighet och angående om de olika versionerna av det kategoriska imperativet är kompatibla med att tillåta en rationell varelse att ljuga i specifika situationer
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofiSammanfattning : This paper deals with Immanuel Kant’s views on absolutism in relation to lying. In the essay Über ein vermeintes Recht aus Menschenliebe zu lügen (1797), Kant expressed the view that a person was never allowed to lie, not even to a murderer if the purpose was to save an innocent person’s life. LÄS MER
3. -Calle! dansar du balett eller? : En vetenskaplig essä om fritidshemsläraren som förebild i identitetsskapande processer. Sett ur ett genusperspektiv
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Södertörns högskola/LärarutbildningenSammanfattning : The purpose of my scientific essay is to examine the identity creating processes that goes on amongst pupils as well as pedagogues in leisure time centers. This seen from a gender perspective. The questions in this essay revolves around me as a role model in the leisure time center and how I use the binary gender categories in my line of work. LÄS MER
4. The Importance of Dignity : A Kantian Perspective on Transhumanism
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)Sammanfattning : The transhumanist movement has been hailed as optimistic and forward thinking in itsambition to “ascend humanity beyond its biological constraints” and bring it to the next stageof evolution. However, critics such as Nicholas Le Dévédec have claimed that the movementrepresents a reversal of the Enlightenment project of autonomy, despite claims otherwise. LÄS MER
5. Kritik av den Rena Ondskan eller Förnuftets Paroxysm
Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : This essay tries to lay the transcendental foundations to a notion of “pure evil”, pure in the Kantian sense of the term, which means to find the necessary conditions for the concept and establish which criteria must be in place for such a concept to be justified. This essay tries to show the importance of thinking evil on its own terms instead as a secondary concept derived from ”the Good”. LÄS MER