Sökning: "Metaphysics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 73 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Metaphysics.

1. 1. Theory and Reality : Metaphysics as Second Science

   Författare :Staffan Angere; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; necessitation; semantics; categories; Theory; metaphysics;

   Sammanfattning : Theory and Reality is about the connection between true theories and the world. A mathematical framefork for such connections is given, and it is shown how that framework can be used to infer facts about the structure of reality from facts about the structure of true theories, The book starts with an overview of various approaches to metaphysics. LÄS MER

3. 2. Morality and the Pursuit of Happiness : A Study in Kantian Ethics

   Författare :Johan Brännmark; Praktisk filosofi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Systematic philosophy; Henry Sidgwick; G. E. Moore; wide reflective equilibrium; metaphysics of the person; Ethics; value; moral realism; social constructivism; philosophy of action; theories of motivation; the dualism of practical reason; the highest good; happiness; virtue; the categorical imperative; maxims; moral principles; Immanuel Kant; moral judgment; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

   Sammanfattning : This work seeks to develop a Kantian ethical theory in terms of a general ontology of values and norms together with a metaphysics of the person that makes sense of this ontology. It takes as its starting point Kant’s assertion that a good will is the only thing that has an unconditioned value and his accompanying view that the highest good consists in virtue and happiness in proportion to virtue. LÄS MER

4. 3. A metaphysics for theology : a study of some problems in the later philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and its application to issues in contemporary theology

   Författare :Sten M. Philipson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

5. 4. Det absoluta och det gemensamma : Benjamin Höijers konstfilosofi

   Författare :Mats Dahllöv; Cecilia Sjöholm; Anders Burman; Klaus Müller-Wille; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benjamin Höijer; philosophy of art; metaphysics; politics; the absolute; the common; aesthetic experience; cultivation; German idealism; Swedish philosophy; Benjamin Höijer; konstfilosofi; metafysik; politik; det absoluta; det gemensamma; estetisk erfarenhet; odling; tysk idealism; svensk filosofi; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is the first interpretation of Benjamin Höijer’s philosophy of art. Höijer (1767–1812), who was a Swedish representative of German idealism, is considered one of the brightest thinkers in the history of Swedish philosophy, although to this day he has been largely neglected. LÄS MER

7. 5. Kunskapens yttersta kant : Gud och det givna i K.E.Løgstrups Metafysik

   Författare :Esbjörn Särdquist; Mattias Martinsson; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; God; theology; metaphysics; sensation; order of analogy; time; being; annihilation; the given; theory of knowledge; hermeneutics; philosophy of religion; phenomenology; postmodernism; creation; foundationalism; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religious Studies and Theology; Religionsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation makes an interpretation of The Metaphysics, four books written by the Danish theologian and philosopher K.E. Løgstrup at the end of his life. In a systematic way the dissertation describes a coherent vision of Løgstrups main theories in the books taken together as a whole. LÄS MER