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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. The Fear of the Fall: Degeneration and Social Inequality in the Frame Narrative of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sissel Hanström; [2013]
   Keywords : Degeneration; time travel; H.G. Wells; frame narrative; social difference; The Time Machine; Victorian society;

   Abstract : H. G Wells’s novel The Time Machine is a significant work of science fiction that dramatizes the themes of degeneration and social inequality, themes that were very relevant during the Victorian era in relation to the discovery of evolution. READ MORE