Essays about: "Metafysik"
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11. Quantitative and qualitative social science: Toward a multilateral conceptualization for normative use
University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofiAbstract : The philosophy of social science is today, from the perspective of the scientists themselves, dominated by the notions of quantitative and qualitative research. Social scientists make distinctions between a wide range of different aspects of research in terms of what is quantitative and qualitative. READ MORE
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12. Deriving morality from rationality -A defence of the rationalchoice framework of David Gauthier's moral theory
University essay from Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofiAbstract : In this essay I will argue that any plausible moral theory should be able to provide a good answer to the question "why should I be moral"? This is the question of moral motivation. I will further suggest that a contractarian moral theory, such as that of David Gauthier,1 provides a plausible answer to this question. READ MORE
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13. Man and Matter: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Justification of Ownership in Land from the Basis of Self-Ownership
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This study seeks to investigate the nature of ownership of land and how the right to its control and use can be inferred from self-ownership as a premise. Hence, the question asked is how ownership (of land) can be justified considering the nature of man from a natural rights point of view. READ MORE
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14. Intrinsic Value and the Hedonic Thesis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofiAbstract : If hedonism is taken to be the view that all and only pleasures are the bearers of intrinsic value whilst also saying that complex things, such as states of affairs, can be ascribed intrinsic value, the hedonic thesis seems to be contradictory. Furthermore it has been argued that the hedonic thesis is inconsistent in its treatment of the notion of intrinsic value in another sense, namely that if the hedonic thesis is understood in the Sidgwickian sense, pleasures cannot be said to have intrinsic value due to the relational nature of the Sidgwickian understanding of pleasure. READ MORE
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15. The lawlike dynamics of tropes : A theory of natural laws in a one-category ontology
University essay from Lunds universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : Trope theory is a philosophy that famously ?calls for completion in a dozen directions at once.? It is my intention here to walk some way one of these, where it, prima facie, seems that this theory might be in a worse position than the theory of universals. READ MORE
