Essays about: "normative morality"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words normative morality.

1. 6. Ethics of Relationality, Practices of Nonviolence : A Reading of Butler's Ethics

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Igor Blomberg Tranæus; [2015]
   Keywords : Butler; Foucault; Levinas; ethics; scenes of address; relationality; nonviolence; subjectivity;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine Judith Butler’s approach to the problem of ethics, and the ways in which she attempts to reformulate notions of morality and responsibility based on an understanding of the subject as inherently bound to others within a context of normative structures that exceed its own influence. For Butler, this bond implies that the subject’s constitution is structured within what she calls a ”scene of address,” where it emerges into a social field by being appealed to by others, and replying to that appeal by giving an account of itself. READ MORE

3. 7. Somaliland: The Morality of Secession

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Max Högblom; [2014]
   Keywords : Just Secession; Just War; Secession; Ethics; Morality; Somaliland; Somalia; SNM; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study aims to understand if the de facto secession of Somaliland from Somalia in 1991 can be considered morally just according to just secession theory. This theory follows the approach of Allen Buchanan and Wayne Norman and their formulation of just cause theory of secession. READ MORE

4. 8. The Hybrid Ideals of Chinese Elite Students : An Ethnography

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Linus Ragnhage; [2012]
   Keywords : ethics; morality; China; youth; globalization; hybridization; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The youth of China seems poised to put their mark on our world no matter our projection of the future. They find themselves bridging two civilizations, having their thoughts shaped by a society in which, due to a transformation of unprecedented speed, past and future value systems exist simultaneously, and they know that as China grows stronger in the economic and military sphere, it could be a question of time before it starts wielding some cultural and normative power, making these youths an important force. READ MORE

5. 9. Etik och moral inom ridsporten : med fokus på fälttävlan

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Author : Elin Göransdotter; [2011]
   Keywords : häst; etik; ridsport; fälttävlan; välfärd;

   Abstract : Eventing is often called as the formula 1 in equestrian sports and comprises three disciplines: dressage, show jumping and cross-country. The sport provides excitement, challenge and joy and is the ultimate sport for intelligent riders and horses. READ MORE

6. 10. Cosmopolitan Reflections in the European Parliament

   University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Özer Yördem; [2007]
   Keywords : Cosmopolitanism; European Parliament; poverty; Theory of Justice;

   Abstract : The problem of world poverty is appalling in human terms. Almost half of all the humankind lives below the poverty line of $2 per day, whereas affluent parts of the world continue to enjoy enormous technological and economical progress. READ MORE