Essays about: "Determinism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 54 essays containing the word Determinism.

  1. 11. Democratisation of Nigeria : Self-determinism and emigration

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Tamarau-Ebragha Suowari; [2022]
    Keywords : Democratisation; Migration; statehood; ethnicity; self-determinism.;

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  3. 12. 'We all end up mutilated': Bodily destruction and self-mutilation in the first three novels by Chuck Palahniuk

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jakob Eyjólfsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Survivor Invisible Monsters Self-Mutilation Self-Destruction Mutilation Disfigurement Determinism Free Will; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this essay, I explore the motifs of bodily destruction and self-mutilation in the first three novels of American author Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (1996), Survivor (1999) and Invisible Monsters (1999). These motifs are prevalent throughout the author’s work and are particularly noteworthy in how detailed and graphic the novels are. READ MORE

  4. 13. Comparing the Past and the Timeless: Landscape Use, Change, and Affordance in Central Blekinge, Sweden, Between the Iron Age and the Medieval Period

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk arkeologi

    Author : Henrik Bernro; [2021]
    Keywords : Medieval; Middle Ages; Late Iron Age; Affordance; Landscape; GIS; Blekinge; Medelstad; Västra Vång; Hjortsberga; Hjortahammar; Listerby; Edestad; Förkärla; Historical Arcaheology; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered an Iron Age temple house in Vång providing new context to the centrality of Iron Age central Blekinge in Sweden, as well as its development into the Medieval period. This thesis aims to examine how that development unfolded using the lens of affordance theory combined with a GIS assisted source pluralistic analysis. READ MORE

  5. 14. FATE ACCORDING TO THE PROSE EDDA NARRATION OF RAGNAROK : A Theological contemplation, elaboration and insight to the Norse pagan concept of fate

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Miralem Mehanovic; [2021]
    Keywords : fate; fatalism; theological; logical; determinism; free will; Amor Fati;

    Abstract : The Prose Edda chapter, Ragnarok as recorded by Snorri, was taken as a pivotal point for exploring fate according to the Norse mythology. The eschatological concept of collapsing gods and destruction of the world was explored through the logical and theological fatalist theory, diverging the orientation from standard textual exploration. READ MORE

  6. 15. No Fixed past : A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Elin Wengelin Grantén; [2021]
    Keywords : Determinism; kompatibilism; fri vilja; konsekvensargumentet;

    Abstract : Carl Hoeferʼs “freedom from the inside out” is a compatibilist account of freedom that claims that we can have a robust kind of freedom even if the world is deterministic. The key insight is that determinism belongs in tenseless B-series time in the block universe, not in our everyday notions of the world where time is experienced in a tensed way with a past, a present, and a future, where the past is viewed as fixed and the future as open. READ MORE