Sökning: "civic virtue"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden civic virtue.
1. Medborgardygd : Den europeiska staden och det offentliga rummets etos
Sammanfattning : What does it mean to be a good citizen? Starting with Aristotle’s ethics and philosophy of friendship formulated between the private and the public in politics' and with the timeless question of what makes a society possible as a backdrop, the author outlines a possible answer. A good citizen is a virtuous citizen, and a virtuous citizen is prudent, courageous, moderate and just. LÄS MER
2. Vältalighet och mannafostran : retorikutbildningen i svenska skolor och gymnasier 1724-1807
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this dissertation is to explore the connections between rhetoric and civic and moral education. In the Latin schools (trivial schools, cathedral schools, and gymnasiums) in eighteenth-century Sweden, rhetoric still had a prominent position. LÄS MER
3. 1809 : Statskuppen och regeringsformens tillkomst som tolkningsprocess
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses the coup d’état and the instrument of government of 1809 as an interpretative framing process. By close examination primarily of official sources it focuses on how political actors utilized the components of the existing political culture in order to legitimise their actions. LÄS MER
4. Politikens drivfjäder : Frihetstidens partiberättelser och den moralpolitiska logiken
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the moral conflict permeating the politics of Sweden’s Age of Liberty around 1740 – a conflict that also structured the politics of the time in relation to a particular political logic based on moral. This logic was based on the absolute and normatively immutable nature of the social order, but also on a number of deep pre-modern experiences and expectations of man as unable to overcome his corrupt nature. LÄS MER
5. The Tragedy of Liberty : Civic Concern and Disillusionment in James Thomson's Tragic Dramas
Sammanfattning : Early eighteenth-century serious drama often addresses the significance of liberty. This study focuses on the theme of civic and individual liberty in the little known tragedies of James Thomson, Sophonisba, Agamemnon and Tancred and Sigismunda, all of which problematise the condition of liberty under the influence of ideology. LÄS MER