Sökning: "metaphysics"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 73 avhandlingar innehållade ordet metaphysics.

  1. 16. The Substituted Judgment Standard. Studies on the Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making

    Författare :Linus Broström; Medicinsk etik; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Systematic philosophy; Medicin människa och djur ; Medicine human and vertebrates ; hypothetical consent; autonomy; incompetence; surrogate accuracy; surrogate decision making; substituted judgment; ethics; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Systematisk filosofi; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

    Sammanfattning : Patients who are incompetent need a surrogate decision maker to make treatment decisons on their behalf. One of the main ethical questions that arise in this context is what standard ought to govern such decision making. LÄS MER

  3. 17. The efficacy of sacrifice : correspondences in the Ŗgvedic Brāhmaņas

    Författare :Clemens Cavallin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Sacrifice; Veda; brahmana; efficacy; ritual; ontology; metaphysics; breath; correspondence; nominal sentence; identification;

    Sammanfattning : Sacrifice is a major topic in the study of religious rituals, and one of the issues debated is its possible efficacy. In this study, the need for multiple approaches is acknowledged, but the focus is on the world-view in which a sacrificial practice is embedded, and more specifically on the basic ontological questions that are of importance for it. LÄS MER

  4. 18. International Environmental Law and the Search for Harmony with Nature: A Critical Inquiry into the Metaphysical Underpinnings of the Legal Discourse on Environmental Protection

    Författare :Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck; Juridiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; harmony with nature report; metaphysics; environmental protection; sustainable development; international environmental law; ethics; Spinoza; public international law; folkrätt; miljörätt;

    Sammanfattning : For some time now, the world in general and international law in particular have witnessed one and the same widespread call for action. Both public and private interests claim that present-day standards and technology have proven insufficient for saving the natural environment. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Främlingskap och tillhörighet : David Tracys hermeneutiska teologi och pluralitetens utmaningar

    Författare :Arne Fritzson; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Bengt Kristensson Uggla; Werner G. Jeanrond; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Faiths and ideologies; David Tracy; hermeneutical theology; critique; self-critique; plurality; repressive tolerance; metaphysics; Paul Ricouer; conversation; Jürgen Habermas; fragments; Gianni Vattimo; content; method; form; kenotic form; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Faith and reason; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This present thesis explores the hermeneutical theology of the North American catholic theologian David Tracy and the challenges plurality poses to modern theology. According to Tracy this challenge is to find a way to be open to plurality and the enrichments it brings, but that openness should not degenerate into a repressive tolerance, where anything can be said because nothing is taken seriously. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Axiomata metaphysica, quæ ... sub præsidio ... Andreæ Goeding ... pro magisterii gradu ... eruditorum examini placide submittet in audit. Gust. maj: a. d. IV. nov: 1696. respondens M: Thomas Bahr Stralsvnd

    Författare :Anders Goeding; Thomas Bahr; Anders Goeding; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Metaphysics; Metafysik;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER