Sökning: "anthropocentrism"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet anthropocentrism.
6. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England
Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. LÄS MER
7. Samtal med den värdefulla naturen : Ett studium av miljöetiken hos Knud Lõgstrup, Holmes Rolston III och Hans Jonas
Sammanfattning : This thesis has three aims. One aim is to explain and analyse the environmental ethics of Rolston, Jonas and Lögstrup. A second aim is to compare and criticize their environmental ethics. A third aim is to put forward a personal proposal for an acceptable formulation of a weakly biocentrical environmental ethic. LÄS MER
8. Människan i centrum : En studie av antropocentrisk värdegemenskap
Sammanfattning : Many factors indicate a number of fundamental changes in the last decades, with respect to people's views of animals and the environment, including our view of man's position in creation. In particular, the environmental and animal rights movements and their societal impact, and the fact that severalquantitative investigations show that people in general tend to place greater value in nature and in animals. LÄS MER
9. Organizational approaches to greening : technocentrism and beyond
Sammanfattning : How and why do organizations approach greening? How can we conceptualize approaches and how can we encourage reflexive dialogues on them? These are the main questions addressed in this qualitative study on organizational greening. The study sets off by discussing matters of research philosophy, arguing that our trust in science ought to be revised and that a more postmodern and constructionist philosophy might be a way to go. LÄS MER
10. Aux frontières de l’anthropocentrisme : la présence animale dans les romans de Michel Houellebecq
Sammanfattning : This dissertation sets out to explore the animal presence in the novels of contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq. Focusing on this often overlooked aspect in the growing number of publications dedicated to Houellebecq’s literary production, this study argues that the presence of animals is central to understanding how his novels are structured around borders between not only animals and humans but also between humans themselves. LÄS MER