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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"History of Thought"”.
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What does it mean ‘to be human’? Human nature and the self in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy.
The purpose of this research is the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question in the history of thought: what does it mean ‘to be human’ from a moral standpoint? In particular, I explored the relationship between the concepts of ‘human nature’ and ‘the self’ in order …
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A phenomenological study of the Christian experience of God
The influence of existentialism and phenomenology on modern psychology necessitates an accurate description of the experience of God without any preconceptions or bias. This study explores the way Christians experience God. This is done by means of a phenomenological explication of first hand …
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The Contested Relationship of Democracy and the Economy : Debates on Economic and Industrial Democracy in Finland and Sweden, 1960s–1990s
… analyzes the contested and changing relation of democracy and the economy in Finnish and Swedish political thought and rhetoric from the 1960s until the 1990s. More specifically, it investigates how composite concepts such as ‘economic democracy,’ ‘industrial democracy’ and ‘enterprise …
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Intuitive and rational approaches to decision making in education
… make decisions? In addition, there are a range of sub questions that are worthy of consideration within the remit of this study. What strategies do head teachers use in making decisions? How do factors such as accountability, metrics, complexity and uncertainty affect decision making? What is …
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The firm. Techno-organizational changes, industrial relations and performances. An enquiry on Reggio Emilia local industrial system
It is not unknown that the evolution of firm theories has been developed along a path paved by an increasing awareness of the organizational structure importance. From the early “neoclassical” conceptualizations that intended the firm as a rational actor whose aim is to produce that amount of …