Essays about: "Weltanschauung"
Found 4 essays containing the word Weltanschauung.
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1. How to analyze identification in storytelling?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Retorik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis examines the use of storytelling in advertising from a rhetorical perspective. Specifically, stories told in IKEA’s recent advertising campaign Där livet händer (Where life happens) will be analyzed. The purpose is to propose a way in which to analyze identification in storytelling. READ MORE
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2. In the Net : The Visual and Verbal Rhetoric of the Campaign “Operation Dolphin Bycatch” by Sea Shepherd France
University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : The marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd is most known for its radical direct action, e. g., against whale poaching. This thesis examines the campaign “Operation Dolphin Bycatch,” coordinated by the French branch of the NGO, through discourse analysis and interviews with Sea Shepherd France (SSF) members. READ MORE
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3. Why Human Virtues Obtain in the Natural World
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapAbstract : This essay aims to connect naturalism and virtue-ethics to a form of realism about values. The thesis advanced in the essay relies heavily on the Wittgensteinian concepts language-game and weltanschauung as explanatory tools for how values can be both real and unreal, both objective and subjective, both at the same time but not from the same perspective. READ MORE
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4. Worldview: Personal ideology, values and beliefs concerning metaphysics, epistemology, human nature and morality
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : First, de St. Aubin's (1996) modified polarity scale (MPS), adapted from Tomkins (1965), was investigated, using data from 315 Swedes. Structural equation modeling rendered two super factors, humanism and normativism, and two sub-factors of humanism. Adding the third factor only produced a slight increase in model fitness. READ MORE