Essays about: "Enlightenment"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 54 essays containing the word Enlightenment.
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11. Challenging the status quo of sustainability : permaculture fostering human-nature relations and re-enchanting nature in Uppsala
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : To understand the current situation when it comes to the environmental challenges humans and nature are facing in 21st century, I think there is a need to look back in history to search for root causes. In order to understand how historically, views of nature and human-nature relationships emerged impacting our current age, e.g. READ MORE
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12. How can things so old be so new? : A critical analysis of the current debate on the crisis of the liberal international order
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : How can things so old be so new? The revival of debates on the fate of the liberal international order has reproduced discussions about what arguably are philosophical and theoretical tensions that have existed for a very long time. Taking a point of departure in Reinhart Koselleck’s Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society, this thesis aims to contribute with an understanding of how the contemporary crisis can be understood in the context of deep historical tensions, and the implications for the current debate. READ MORE
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13. The Enlightenment of Swedish Child Welfare to China : A Comparative Study of Swedish and Chinese Child Welfare
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärdAbstract : Social welfare is the product of the development of human society. Western countries began to build their own welfare systems in the late 19th century. Child welfare is also their focus. READ MORE
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14. How Blue is the Sky? : Horace B. de Saussure and his cyanometer – its invention, use and legacy
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : Anyone who has gazed at a cloud free sky during daytime certainly havenoticed that the colour of the sky is blue. A careful observer may also havenoticed that the sky can look darker or lighter blue. READ MORE
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15. An artificial intelligence method for text placement evaluation in maps
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : A map is a combinatorial presentation of map objects and labels providing users with sufficient and useful information. Text placement is the most time-consuming and cumbersome work in a map production process, and many methods have been proposed to automate this process. READ MORE
