Sökning: "the afterlife"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden the afterlife.

  1. 1. Death and the Self : A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate

    Författare :Johan Eddebo; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johanneson; Charles Taliaferro; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; subjectivity; selfhood; afterlife; irreducibility; critique of naturalism; immaterialist ontologies; dualism; idealism; philosophy of religion; quantum theory; interpretations of quantum mechanics; modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation's purpose is to test the hypothesis that beliefs in the possibility of post-mortem survival can be rationally held within the context of the contemporary scientific and philosophical environment. In terms of criteria of rationality, a basic evidentialism is assumed, such that propositions which are sufficiently supported by the available evidence can be rationally held. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Krigarna i Odins sal : Dödsföreställningar och krigarkult fornnordisk religion

    Författare :Andreas Nordberg; Ulf Drobin; Anders Hultgård; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Othin; Valhall; war; warband; aristocracy; aristocratic hall; the afterlife; burial customs; Hel; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The crucial question in this study concerns the relationship between the motifs of Valhall and Othin in the epically worked out myths, and the more vague and intuitive religious beliefs. Archaeological remains as well as Old Norse literature constitute the source material. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Exhibitionary Complex : Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou, 1963–1977

    Författare :Kim West; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Helena Mattson; Felicity D. Scott; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern and contemporary art exhibitions; modern and contemporary art museums; apparatus; dispositif; exhibitionary complex; exhibition history; museology; media archaeology; aesthetics; Moderna Museet; Kulturhuset; Centre Pompidou; Museum Computer Network; Filialen; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation traces the history of a diagram. The diagram shows four circles of gradually diminishing sizes, lodged one inside the other, like the layers of a circular or spherical body. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Sortes Vergilianae : A Philological Study

    Författare :Moa Ekbom; Maria Plaza; Diederik W.P. Burgersdijk; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Virgil reception; Historia Augusta; Virgil in the Historia Augusta; bibliomancy; cento; Augustine; Hadrian; Pescennius Niger; Clodius Albinus; Alexander Severus; Claudius Gothicus; Sortes Vergilianae; Sortes Homericae; Sortes Biblicae; Latin; Latin;

    Sammanfattning : This study discusses the sortes Vergilianae, which are commonly defined as a form of ancient divination practiced by randomly finding a verse in a volume of Virgil. The practice of sortes Vergilianae has been described as widespread in antiquity. LÄS MER

  7. 5. GETTING MORE OUT OF THE AFTERLIFE

    Författare :Derek Diener; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; MFA; remanufacturing; steel; company-level; Product EoL management; material efficiency;

    Sammanfattning : Material intensity related to product consumption has become part of societal discourse and reducing it has become a priority of some industrial actors. Focusing on product end-of-life (EoL) is one approach that many companies and research entities have taken to identify and enact material intensity reductions. LÄS MER