Sökning: "Reason"

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  1. 1. No time for reason : Deliberation, status and democracy in the modern democracy

    Författare :Johan Wänström; Eric Kramer; USA University of Oklahoma Department of Communication; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reason; Deliberation; Democracy; Society; Social capital; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : Economic use of time (efficiency) and democracy are common features in many modern western societies. However, a strong egalitarian democracy requires equal participation in the social construction of meaning, reason and ultimately knowledge. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Förnuftets brytpunkt : om teknikkritiken i P C Jersilds författarskap

    Författare :Jonas Anshelm; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technology criticism; Technological society; Rationality; Reason; Morality; Narratives; Swedish literature; P C Jersild; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : Modern technology has enabled us to realise objectives our forebearers could only dream of. Our capacity to do both good and evil has grown dramatically. With these new capacities ensue extremely weighty moral responsibilities.P C Jersild is a Swedish author who has dedicated his work to the investigation of morality in the technological society. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Reconceiving Public Reason : Neutrality, Civility, and the Self-Defeat Objection

    Författare :Johan Elfström; Elena Namli; Lars Lindblom; Dan-Erik Andersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Rawls; Jeffrey Stout; Cécile Laborde; Steven Wall; public reason; social cooperation; neutrality; civility; political legitimacy; Etik; Ethics;

    Sammanfattning : How should we live together? The question is at the heart of social ethics and it is an as urgent political question as ever. In this thesis, one particularly attractive reply to this central issue is analysed—John Rawls’s theory of public reason, and three different objections that have been put against it. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory

    Författare :Andreas Gottardis; Ulf Mörkenstam; Näsström Sofia; Owen David; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Emancipation; Critical Theory; Jürgen Habermas; Frankfurt School; Enlightenment Philosophy; Enlightenment Skepticism; Deliberative Democracy; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Upplysning utan förnuft : begär och frihet hos Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume och Montesquieu

    Författare :Victoria Höög; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; postmodernism; modernity; women; political freedom; classical republicanism; human nature; reason; virtue; passions; Enlightenment; desire; David Hume; Charles de Montesquieu.; History of philosophy; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This essay has three main aims. The first one is to give an overview of some hundred years of European intellectual history, bringing out new aspects of the classical thinkers. The analysis of the four philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume and Charles de Montesquieu aims at illustrating a general historical process, viz. LÄS MER