Sökning: "moral causality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral causality.
1. Vårt eget fel : moralisk kausalitet som tankefigur från 00-talets klimatlarm till förmoderna syndastraffsföreställningar
Sammanfattning : The starting point of this study is the striking similarities between late modern notions of anthropogenic climate change and premodern ideas about divine punishment. In both these cases the occurrence of future disasters have been directly linked to the moral behavior of the endangered. LÄS MER
2. Osannolika händelser och den svenska realistiska romanen : Ett estetiskt och existentiellt bekymmer
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with improbable events in the realistic novel. The overarchingidea is that realism is distinguished by dealing with improbable events on thebasis of a double perspective: both as an existential and as an aesthetic problem. LÄS MER
3. 'Nisi temere agat' : Francisco Suárez on Final Causes and Final Causation
Sammanfattning : The main thesis of this dissertation is that final causes are beings of reason (‘entia rationis’) in the philosophy of Francisco Suárez (1547-1617). The rejection of final causes is often seen as one of the hallmarks of Early Modern philosophy, marking the transition from an earlier Aristotelian tradition. LÄS MER
4. Gender, Work, and Attitudes
Sammanfattning : Paper 1: The long term effect of own and spousal parental leave on mothers’ earnings We take advantage of the introduction of a Norwegian parental leave reform in 1993 to identify the causal effect of parental leave on mothers’ long-term earnings. The reform raised the total leave period by seven weeks, but reserved four weeks for the father. LÄS MER
5. Fortunas klädnader : lycka, olycka och risk i det tidigmoderna Sverige
Sammanfattning : Fortuna’s Guises: Fortune, Misfortune, and Risk in Early Modern Sweden. This dissertation explores learned conceptions of uncertainty and risk during the period stretching approximately between 1560 and 1720. LÄS MER