Essays about: "metafysik"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the word metafysik.
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1. 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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2. The grounding-causation disanalogy: a critical look at causation as a guide to grounding
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriAbstract : De senaste åren har begreppet »grundande« väckt allt större intresse hos metafysiker. Grundande är tänkt att vara en separat typ av metafysisk bestämning. Γ sägs grunda γ när γ existerar eller är på ett visst sätt »i kraft av« eller »på grund av« Γ. READ MORE
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3. On how we acquire knowledge of first principles (archai) in Aristotle : A defense of intuition (nous) understood as integral to induction (epagoge)
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofiAbstract : In this essay I consider from various perspectives the question of whether, for Aristotle, intuition (nous) is part of the process of induction (epagoge) helping to reach the first principles (archai) or whether nous is rather a state of knowing first brought about through a successful induction alone. I have argued we should be careful of drawing conclusions about the nature of the involvement of nous in the grasping of first principles on the basis of APo alone. READ MORE
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4. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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5. Beyond the Betrayal of Language : On the Role of Skepticism in Otherwise than Being
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : In Otherwise than Being (1974), Levinas asked if and how philosophy could make justice of the concrete ethical meeting by philosophical practice, which is unconditionally conditioned by language. Language, understood as partly situated in being and ontology, is analysed as an appropriation of the other, who is other than being. READ MORE
