Essays about: "History of Philosophy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the words History of Philosophy.

  1. 1. Nietzsche, and the Significance of Historical Philosophizing : On the Use of History for Philosophical Matters

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för filosofi och tillämpad etik

    Author : Jacob Gustavsson; [2024]
    Keywords : Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; Nietzsche; Historical Philosophizing; History of Philosophy; Philosophy of History; Perspectivism;

    Abstract : This thesis explores Friedrich Nietzsche's use of history for philosophical purposes, focusing on two central themes in Nietzsche's writings: the genealogical methodology, and perspectival epistemology. My aim is to demonstrate how Nietzsche's concept of "historical philosophizing" is intricately connected to his moral philosophy. READ MORE

  3. 2. History, Progress, Morality : An Inquiry on the Metaethics of Moral Progress

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Jacob Gustavsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Philosophy; Moral Progress; Metaethics; Moral Relativism; Moral Realism; Moral Convictions; Moral Skepticism;

    Abstract : In this essay, I examine the interplay between history, progress, and morality, as it is discussed explicitly or implicitly in the metaethical literature. At first sight, it is perhaps intuitive that these three are necessarily intertwined and mutually dependent, as if they were casually connected. READ MORE

  4. 3. The roots of Arab Islam as a state identity; A numismatic approach to the emergence of Arab Islam as a public identity in the Near East during the rule of ‘Abd al-Malik (685-705 C.E.)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Amer Sare; [2023]
    Keywords : Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences; Arts and Architecture; History and Archaeology; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The ideas and interests of how to move forward with the new religion and its new caliphate during the first century of Islam, were often varied and were in conflict. In the year 77 A.H (696-697 C.E. READ MORE

  5. 4. "And lo! Apollo Could Not Live Without Dionysus" A Nietzschean Study of the Apollonian and Dionysian in Donna Tartt's The Secret History

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Jessica Kafa; [2023]
    Keywords : Donna Tartt; The Secret History; Nietzsche; Apollonian; Dionysian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Previous research on Donna Tartt’s debut novel The Secret History in regards to its intertextual relevance has helped in understanding the traditional campus novel, as well as redefined the classical murder mystery. However, little research has been made on its characters and its portrayal of the human experience. READ MORE

  6. 5. From Dawn to Dusk: studying the origin of the Islamic fivefold daily liturgy in the Qur’ān

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Davide de Francesco; [2023]
    Keywords : Islam; prayer; Qur anic studies; Qur anic exegeses; Christianity; Judaism; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Despite prayer being one of the most central tenets of Islam, this subject has drawn the attention of surprisingly little scholarship, especially when it comes to studying its origin against pre-Islamic analogues. Thus, this thesis proposes a reconstruction of the very early history of the fivefold daily Islamic liturgy, attempting also to weigh the extent of the influence that pre-Islamic religions, primarily Middle Eastern Christianity and Judaism, might have had in its development. READ MORE