Essays about: "Spinoza"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Spinoza.

1. 1. Omnia Omnium Sunt – Everything Belongs to Everybody : Knowledge as a Nonpositional Good in an Education System Governed by Human Capital Theory

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

   Author : Maja Morsing; [2023]
   Keywords : Human Capital Theory; assessment; Spinoza; conatus; positional goods; nonpositional goods; standardized testing; assessment for learning; knowledge;

   Abstract : Starting from the experience of watching the role of the teacher turn into a bureaucrat, this work examines the factors dominating current education systems. It identies Human Capital Theory as a main inuence on policy and prioritization decisions in education. READ MORE

3. 2. Constituent Human Rights: A Spinozan study of the radical within human rights theories and the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Morgan Björö; [2022]
   Keywords : Spinoza; constituent human rights; production; Negri; constituent power; human rights; power; radical human rights theory; Capitol Hill Occupied Protest; ontology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The global human rights regime can only recognise rights that are already known and given, what I’m calling constituted human rights. This mantra poses some immediate obstacles: it effectively invisibilises issues of the productivity and antagonism of human rights movements, the unknown and indeterminate future, and human rights that don’t yet exist. READ MORE

4. 3. Where is happiness? A cultural analysis of the emotional practices

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

   Author : Kazumi Ichiba; [2020]
   Keywords : happiness; feel good; affect; emotional practice; cultural analysis; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Happiness is an affect. Affects are thought to be part of our subjective experiences. In the past, human beings have constructed complex relationships with happiness outside of ourselves. READ MORE

5. 4. Atëphobia: On Lovecraft, Deleuze and the limits of affectual geography

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Carl Olsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Affect; Deleuze; Lovecraft; Non-representational theory; Aesthetics; Literary geography; Experimental writing; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Over the past two decades non-representational and affectual geographers have cited the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the point of exhaustion. In this thesis I read Deleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza through the weird tales written by the American horror author H. P. READ MORE

6. 5. A Comprehension of Spinoza's God: Through the Dichotomy of Labels

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap

   Author : Tania Norell; [2016]
   Keywords : Spinoza’s God; Atheist; God-intoxicated man; Pantheist; Determinist; Panentheist; Necessitarianist.; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : Abstract: The 17th century philosopher Spinoza is known for his concept of God as One Substance, God or Nature and therefore considered as a monist and categorized as a naturalist. He has been labeled an atheist and God-intoxicated man, as well as a determinist and pantheist, which I perceive to be dichotomies. READ MORE