Sökning: "Vetenskap och religion"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden Vetenskap och religion.
11. Liksom ett par nya ögon. Frithiof Holmgren och synsinnets problematik
Sammanfattning : This study deals with research on the visual organ as pursued in experimental physiology during the latter half of the nineteenth-century. In the 1850's och 60's experimental physiology developed as a new, scientific discipline within the curriculum of western medicine. LÄS MER
12. Världsmaskinen. Emanuel Swedenborgs naturfilosofi
Sammanfattning : The Swedish natural philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) thought in his early scientific career that the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. The work presented here is a study of his mechanistic worldview and metaphorical way of thinking up to the year 1734, examining most of his fields of interest, from geometry and metaphysics to technology and mining engineering. LÄS MER
13. Samhället som system och dess ekologiska omvärld. En studie i Niklas Luhmanns sociologiska systemteori
Sammanfattning : This thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part is an exposé of Niklas Luhmann’s comprehensive sociological systems theory. Systems theory is a theory focusing upon the distinction between system and environment. LÄS MER
14. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism
Sammanfattning : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. LÄS MER
15. Patterns of Care : Relating Altruism in Sociobiology and the Christian Tradition of Agape
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to relate sociobiological theories of altruism to theories within the Christian tradition of agape. Firstly, it discusses the relation between scientific, ethical and theological understandings of altruism, and argues that it is possible to compare discussions of benevolent acts towards others or other-directedness. LÄS MER