Essays about: "Philosophy and Religion"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 131 essays containing the words Philosophy and Religion.
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11. Problems With the Veil of Ignorance, And How We Might Solve Them
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för filosofi, historia, konst och religionAbstract : Ever since Rawls published The Theory of Justice (1971/2009), the theory itself, along with many of its components, have been subject to intense debate. Both the "original position" and the "veil of ignorance" have been argued to be too unrealistic since the restriction on information makes it impossible to apply in the real world. READ MORE
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12. The Atlas of Two Women: A Methodological Exploration for Seeing and Interpreting the Symptomatic Visual Motif
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : This thesis explores the under-recognised yet symptomatic visual motif of two women, a recurring theme within a vast array of pictorial examples. Its primary objective is to construct a theoretical and methodological framework capable of comprehending the multiplicity of images in the form of an image collection: The Atlas of Two Women. READ MORE
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13. The dancing qualities of the cinematic space: a methodological experiment in order to perceive the motion picture as a dancing body.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : The thesis is proposing a method to perceive the cinematic space as a body in motion. The foundation for such an experimental method is traced within the investigation of the movement in the study of the motion picture, as well as in a phenomenological approach to dance, and in selected theories from the continental philosophy of the 20th century. READ MORE
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14. "Vi inhämtar aldrig information utan att på något sätt omvandla den" En tematisk studie av "Det sällsamma djuret från norr"
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : This study examines how consciousness is presented in Lars Gustafsson's science fiction novel Det sällsamma djuret från norr. My reading concentrates not only biological consciousness but also artificially and how these are presented in relation to each other. READ MORE
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15. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapAbstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE
