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  1. 16. The liberal state and the politics of virtue

    Författare :Ludvig Beckman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; virtue; the good life; rights; the neutral state; equality; scepticism; doubt; liberalism; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : A common belief, shared by liberals and anti-liberals alike, is that the liberalstate should not teach the citizen how to live. Similarly, it is frequently arguedthat liberal theory does not encompass a vision of the virtuous life. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Tricks of the Medical Trade : Cunning in the Age of Bureaucratic Austerity

    Författare :Mani Shutzberg; Fredrik Svenaeus; Roland Paulsen; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Sammanfattning : Being a “good” doctor nowadays involves more than having virtues and capacities conducive to the content of encounters between physicians and patients. Physicians can and must be able to act on the surrounding conditions of the doctor-patient encounter, in order to keep external interests at bay. LÄS MER

  4. 18. The Vicissitudes of Corruption : Degeneration - transgression - jouissance

    Författare :Thomas Taro Lennerfors; Claes Gustafsson; Thomas Polesie; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Industrial organisation; administration and economics; Industriell organisation; administration och ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : In a time when corruption is receiving increasing media coverage and when many claim to wage a war on corruption, this book brings up the need for a problematisation and an increased understanding of the different manifestations – the vicissitudes – of corruption and also what measures are taken against it. The book advances the claim that corruption is tightly related to modernity and particularly to a transgression of the public / private dichotomy. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Sparsamkeit und Geiz, Grosszügigkeit und Verschwendung : ethische Konzepte im Spiegel der Sprache

    Författare :Anita Malmqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semantic analysis; semantic field; ethical concept; cognitive semantics; variation; expressivity; semantic change; contrastive corpus analysis; frequency; metaphorical concept; métonymie concept;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this study is to analyse the lexemes and phraseological units that constitute the semantic fields employed in naming four abstract domains, greed, thrift, generosity, and extra­vagance that make up the ethical concept in German. On the assump­tion that ideas are accessible to us through the lexicalised items of a language, recent theories in the field of semantic analysis and conceptualisation were applied to the source material. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Emmo: De qualitate caelestis patriae libri tres. : Edition with an Introduction

    Författare :Georg Stenborg; Monica Hedlund; Eva Odelman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Emmo; Carolingian renaissance; theology; patristic; eschatology; florilegium; Medieval Latin; manuscript; critical edition; stemmatic method; Latin language; Latin;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contains the first critical edition of the eschatological florilegium De qualitate caelestis patriae by Emmo, compiled, during the Carolingian renaissance, in the first half of the ninth century.The subject matter covered by Emmo is theological and moral, comprising first and foremost the eschatological ends of heaven and hell, but also having a clear moral agenda, to inspire the reader to lead a righteous life through the virtues described and to avoid the vices leading to a sorry end of one’s life. LÄS MER