Sökning: "prudence"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade ordet prudence.

  1. 1. Medborgardygd : Den europeiska staden och det offentliga rummets etos

    Författare :Björn Badersten; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Novgorod; Florence; European history; ideal type; city; justice; temperance; fortitude; prudence; friendship; citizenship; citizen; Aristotle; civic virtues; Problem of order; virtue ethics; Moscow.; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    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

  3. 2. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead : An Essay on Well-Being and Death

    Författare :Karl Ekendahl; Jens Johansson; Erik Carlson; Chris Heathwood; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; well-being; Epicureanism; deprivation account; the timing argument; fission; temporal well-being; extrinsic value; prudence; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This book examines some central arguments in the debate about the value of death. The first main chapter, Chapter 2, begins with an introduction to the debate and a clarification of Epicureanism, i.e. the view that it is not bad to die. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Structure of the Virtues : A Study of Thomas Aquinas’s and Godfrey of Fontaines's Accounts of Moral Goodness

    Författare :Alexander Stöpfgeshoff; Tomas Ekenberg; Frans Svensson; Bonnie Kent; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thomas Aquinas; Godfrey of Fontaines; virtue; character virtue; prudence; moral goodness; medieval philosophy; medieval ethics; connection of the virtues; unity; dependence; gender; particularism; Summa Theologiae; Aristotle; Philosophy; with specialization in history of philosophy; Filosofi med filosofihistorisk inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of Thomas Aquinas’s (1225–1274) and Godfrey of Fontaines’s (d. 1306) moral philosophies. In this study, I conduct a detailed analysis of two Aristotelian commitments concerning the character virtues, namely, The Plurality of the Character Virtues and The Connection of the Character Virtues. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Reciprocitet : etiska normer och praktiskt samarbete

    Författare :Jan Tullberg; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
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    Sammanfattning : Vilken bör vara den centrala sociala normen? Reciprocitet - ömsesidiga relationer till bådas fördel - jämförs med två andra alternativ: altruism och integritet. Altruism - från självuppoffring i nya testamentet och i mycken ideologi till agentneutralitet i modern filosofi - är den etik som oftast förespråkas. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics

    Författare :Martin Flodén; Orazio Attanasio; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four independent papers in macroeconomics.Labor Supply and Consumption under Uncertainty: Prudence Reconsidered examines how variations in labor supply can be used to self insure against individual specific risks. LÄS MER