Essays about: "Metaphysics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the word Metaphysics.
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1. Creation and Power : The role of creative activity in Nietzsche's posthumous fragments
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis concerns the subject-reality relationship within the philosophy of the mature Nietzsche. The aim of this thesis is to highlight the interpretative dilemma that arises from apparent inconsistencies in Nietzsche’s analysis of that relationship. READ MORE
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2. Future Imaginaries of Negative Emission Technologies and Folklore Myths in Icelandic Basalt: Provisional Order Emerges from the Possible Magma in the Age of ‘Hauntology’ and Broken Time
University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Why do we in the Western part of world today tend to believe in technology’s mythical promises rather than in folklore myths? Imaginaries of the future influence political subjects’ actions in the present and play a key role in composing the trajectory towards the future. I have critically applied this notion to the implementation of negative emission technologies in the climate-neutrality strategy. READ MORE
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3. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE
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4. Graffiti and street art in mobile landscapes
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : Drawing from de Certeau (1984), in this thesis I investigate graffiti and street art as part of the everyday visual landscapes. The city of Stockholm has gone from zero tolerance towards all forms of street art to now including the art form as a strategy for creating a so-called attractive city. READ MORE
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5. On fundamental relata : objects, individuals, and non-individuals in ontic structural realism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofiAbstract : Ontic structural realism is the view that structure is fundamental. This view is at odds with a long-standing tradition in metaphysics which takes the fundamental structure of reality to consist of individuals. READ MORE