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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden science faith.
1. The liberal state and the politics of virtue
Sammanfattning : A common belief, shared by liberals and anti-liberals alike, is that the liberalstate should not teach the citizen how to live. Similarly, it is frequently arguedthat liberal theory does not encompass a vision of the virtuous life. LÄS MER
2. On the Good Faith : A Fourfold Discursive Construction of Zoroastrianism in Contemporary Russia
Sammanfattning : Zoroastrianism, a religion originating in the ancient East and having survived to the present day, is currently being practiced on a very small scale throughout the whole world. Since the early 1990s there has been a gradually increasing public interest in Zoroastrianism in Russia and some of the former Soviet republics where small pockets of new non-ethnic Zoroastrians have sprung up. LÄS MER
3. Right Against Right : Membership and Justice in Post-Soviet Estonia
Sammanfattning : The dissertation investigates the problematique of justice involved in the distribution of initial membership in post-Soviet Estonia. The inquiry includes both an interpretation of the prevailing moral arguments and a normative discussion of what a just solution that takes both arguments into consideration would look like. LÄS MER
4. Decision-making in health issues : Teenagers' use of science and other discourses
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to develop knowledge about young individuals’ reasoning and how they justify their standpoints concerning trustworthiness and decision-making in issues connected to health where available information is contradictory or uncertain. This purpose has been addressed in three different steps. LÄS MER
5. The personal and the political : how personal welfare state experiences affect political trust and ideology
Sammanfattning : Citizens in advanced industrial democracies frequently have personal experiences with public services and welfare state arrangements. They may have regular contact with public health care services, schools, public transportation, public libraries, and many other types of services. LÄS MER