Essays about: "Philosophical anthropology"

Found 4 essays containing the words Philosophical anthropology.

  1. 1. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Rita Rubnell Spolander; [2019]
    Keywords : value; metaphysics; philosophy of language; philosophical anthropology; conceptual schemes; primitive reactions; agency; värde; metafysik; språkfilosofi; filosofisk antropologi; primitiva reaktioner; agens;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at formulating a human rights justification based on the assumption that disbelief in human rights is found in communicative grounds, rather than some sort of unreasonable evil. I first identify what I believe to be a flaw in the communicative strength of existing human rights justifications in explaining why rights should be. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cultivating Critique in Folds and Pleats - Posthuman Enactments in the Dress of Rick Owens

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Wiktor Hansson; [2019]
    Keywords : Posthuman; Fashion; Anthropocene; Intra-Relationality; Rick Owens; Avant-Garde; Deleuze; Queer; MACA; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Taking as its epistemological starting point the proposed geological era of the Anthropocene, this thesis enquires the affective potential of avant-garde fashion in criticising, improving or transforming the supposed givenness of The Human as a historical concept. In order to do so, it inflects and departs from the tightly held onto-epistemological cannon of fashion studies and anthropology of dress, in which fashion is understood primarily through representation, signification and performance of identity. READ MORE

  4. 3. Environmental Perceptions in an Urban Environment : Report from a Minor Field Study in Nairobi, Kenya, January-March 2007

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Emelie Kärre; [2007]
    Keywords : Nairobi; Kenya; modernity; modernitet; environmental perception; naturuppfattning; miljöperception; urban; sociology; stadssociologi; rural areas; landsbygd; poverty; fattigdom; squatter settlements; kåkstäder; environment; miljö; cities and towns; städer; human ecology; humanekologi; Environmental studies; Miljöstudier; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is an analysis of the modern phenomena and attributes of the city of Nairobi and its inhabitants. It has two purposes where the first is to account for the environmental perceptions of Nairobi citizens. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Emotional Influence on Human Decision-making : On Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Henrik Levinsson; [2004]
    Keywords : Damasio; Emotions; somatic marker; Philosophical anthropology; Filosofisk antropologi; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : According to Damasio, emotions are essential for the decision-making process in the personal and social domain. This idea supports Damasio's ?somatic marker hypothesis?. The hypothesis is about how emotions function to guide human decision-making processes. READ MORE