Sökning: "Christian social ethics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 93 avhandlingar innehållade orden Christian social ethics.
1. Theologies Speak of Justice : A Study of Islamic and Christian Social Ethics
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how religious ethics, while retaining its identity, can contribute to political debate and to the understanding of justice. The inquiry addresses these issues by focusing on theological perspectives which challenge the solutions offered to these questions by the liberal paradigm. LÄS MER
2. What did you expect? : A human-centered approach to investigating and reducing the social robot expectation gap
Sammanfattning : We live in a complex world where we proactively plan and execute various behaviors by forming expectations in real time. Expectations are beliefs regarding the future state of affairs and they play an integral part of our perception, attention, and behavior. LÄS MER
3. The Persistence of Christian Realism : A Study of the Social Ethics of Ronald H. Preston
Sammanfattning : The persistence of the tradition of Christian Realism in England is exemplified by the lifelong contribution of Anglican moral theologian Ronald H. Preston. LÄS MER
4. Human Dignity : A Study in Medical Ethics
Sammanfattning : Human dignity is an enunciated ethical principle in many societies, and it has elicited a great deal of interest, not least because it is central in health care. However, it has also been the subject of criticism. LÄS MER
5. Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken
Sammanfattning : The main question of this thesis is if a practice is right because it is prescribed by an ethical theory, or if an ethical theory is right because it follows from certain practices? I propose the following definitions to illustrate the main alternatives: (1) if a practice is determined by an ethical theory and the ethical theory is not determined by practice, it is possible to speak of a top-down model of ethical thinking. (2) If a theory, conversely, is determined by a practice and the practice is not determined by theory, it can be described as a bottom-up model. LÄS MER