Sökning: "existential philosophy"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 91 avhandlingar innehållade orden existential philosophy.

  1. 1. The structure of knowing Existential trust as an epistemological category

    Detta är en avhandling från Umeå : Umeå universitet

    Författare :Hildur Kalman; Umeå universitet.; [1999]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; lived body; knowing; existential trust; tacit knowing; Pkolanyi; subsidiary awareness; experience; gender; epistemology; from-to structure; agency;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the structure of knowing, and it argues that existential trust is an epistemological category.The aim of the dissertation is to develop a view according to which all human activity is seen as an activity of a lived body, and in which the understanding of the structure of such activity is regarded as central for the solution even of epistemological problems. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Human enhancement and technological uncertainty Essays on the promise and peril of emerging technology

    Detta är en avhandling från Stockholm : KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Författare :Karim Jebari; KTH.; [2014]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct communication between the brain and a machine possible by means of electrical stimuli. This essay reviews the existing and emerging technologies in this field and offers an inquiry into the ethical problems that are likely to emerge. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Den enskilde : En studie av trons profana möjlighet i Sören Kierkegaards tidiga författarskap

    Detta är en avhandling från Bokförlaget Thales

    Författare :Jonna Hjertström Lappalainen; Jonna Hjertström Lappalainen; Stockholms universitet.; [2009]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Philosophy subjects; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Filosofiämnen; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects Philosophy subjects Theoretical philosophy; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Filosofiämnen Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi; Kierkegaard; single individual; freedom; faith; suffering; guilt; the moment; category; existence; the unknown; the new; receptivity; repetition; projection;

    Sammanfattning : In his attempt to explore philosophically human existence, Kierkegaard frequently refers to the term "the single individual" (den Enkelte), and he explicitly states that this notion plays a prominent part in his authorship. Even if he ascribes such a significant role to the single individual he never gives a comprehensive account of how to understand this notion. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws

    Detta är en avhandling från Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International / Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis

    Författare :Anders Hallengren; Stockholms universitet.; [1994]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ; natural law; ethics; aesthetics; esthetics; politics; USA; ethics and physics; laws of nature; laws of society; laws of art; American literature; American philosophy; American history; legal philosophy; constitutional law; human rights; rule of law; HUMANITIES and RELIGION Aesthetic subjects Literature; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Estetiska ämnen Litteraturvetenskap; History and philosophy subjects Philosophy subjects Theoretical philosophy; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Filosofiämnen Teoretisk filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; LAW JURISPRUDENCE Public law; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK Offentlig rätt; Other law; Övrig rätt; Theory of science; Vetenskapsteori; History subjects History of science and ideas; Historieämnen Idé- o lärdomshistoria; SOCIAL SCIENCES Social sciences Political science; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Socialvetenskap Statsvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The God who Seeks but Seems to Hide

    Detta är en avhandling från Uppsala : Department of Theology, Uppsala University

    Författare :Francis Jonbäck; Uppsala universitet.; [2016]
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Divine hiding; Sceptical theism; Theism; Theodicy; Value agnosticism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to reconstruct and evaluate two types of responses to an evidential argument from divine hiding, namely the ‘value agnostic’ response and the ‘theodicy’ response. In the study, the term ‘divine hiding’ refers to the experience of all those who find themselves having inconclusive evidence for the existence of God. LÄS MER