Essays about: "virtues"
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1. "I am the opposite of progress” – A discussion about Bauman’s Liquid Modernity through the lens of Yellowstone
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskapAbstract : Purpose: The purpose is to problematize how to use conservatism as counterforce to Liquid Modernity by answering two research questions. - What critique against liquid modernity can be identified in Yellowstone? - How does Yellowstone articulate conservatism as counterforce against monetary interests and profit. READ MORE
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2. Voices Once Lost : on Connexions in nineteenth century Swedish Geaticism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis studies how the early nineteenth century periodical Iduna, published by the influential Geatish Society from 1811 until 1844, portrayed and shaped their idea of Sweden’s past. Of particular interest to this thesis is how this past was narrated through the use of emotions and how these emotions functioned. READ MORE
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3. Saviours : The opinionated and dangerous students at Uppsala university in 1793
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis sets out to investigate the students at Uppsala university’s self-image and the image that they had of the Swedish population at the start of the 1790s. During this time the Swedish state was fearful of the Swedish students and their political opinions due to, amongst several reasons, the involvement of French students during the French revolution. READ MORE
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4. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE
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5. The Virtues of a Hero : Virtue Ethics and the Divine in Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines how ethics and various conceptualizations of the divine are explored and expressed in contemporary fiction, and in this particular case, in Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000. It is meant to highlight the philosophical underpinnings within these works, and to discuss how readers and consumers of such fiction and media may be affected in their views regarding religiosity and ethics. READ MORE