Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / In the present work, we seek to elucidate the relations between the problem of moral luck and our assignments of responsibility. The problem of moral luck emerges from two dimensions of human life. On the one side, we are autonomous and rational beings, we have control over our actions and are moral agents. On the other side, we are vulnerable to every sort of external contingency that eliminates the complete control we have over our actions and their results. The contingency, also, has a significant weight on the formation of our character and personality. Therefore, the problem of moral luck takes a real importance: how can we assign responsibility to the agents, given that a lot of what configures a moral action are contingent elements? The research was elaborated based on Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel s articles on Moral luck. Williams, in his article, seeks to show that morality, as we conceive it, is (in fact) distant from our moral evaluations. Williams introduces the role of regret and recognizes the need to understand moral justification as retrospective. Nagel, in turn, finds the center of the moral luck problem in the control principle. In trying to understand how we assign responsibility to an agent for things beyond his control, Nagel defines four methods in which luck influences our moral judgements, and lists the kinds of moral luck: resultant, circumstantial, constitutive and causal luck. Finally, we take a look at critiques pertinent to the moral luck and responsibility problem, both negating and accepting the influence of luck in moral responsibility. From the epistemic argument and Zimmerman s postulates to Walker s pure agency critique and Otsuka s strawsonian considerations about reactive attitudes. / No presente trabalho, buscamos elucidar as relações entre o problema da sorte moral e nossas atribuições de responsabilidade. O problema da sorte moral emerge a partir de duas dimensões da vida humana. Por um lado, somos seres autônomos e racionais, temos o controle sobre nossas ações e somos agentes morais. Por outro, somos vulneráveis a toda espécie de contingência externa que elimina o controle total que temos de nossas ações e de seus resultados. A contingência, também, tem um peso significativo na formação de nosso caráter e personalidade. Por isso, o problema da sorte moral assume importância real: como podemos atribuir responsabilidade aos agentes, visto que muito do que configura uma ação moral são elementos contingentes? Elaboramos esta pesquisa a partir dos artigos Moral luck de Bernard Williams e Thomas Nagel. Williams, em seu artigo, busca mostrar que a moralidade, como a concebemos, mostra-se distante de nossas avaliações morais. Williams introduz o papel do arrependimento e reconhece a necessidade de entendermos a justificação moral como retrospectiva. Nagel, por sua vez, encontra no princípio do controle o centro do problema da sorte moral. Na tentativa de entender como atribuímos responsabilidade a uma agente por coisas além de seu controle, Nagel define quatro meios pelos quais a sorte influencia nossos juízos morais e elenca os tipos de sorte moral: sorte resultante, circunstancial, constitutiva e causal. Por fim, procuramos as críticas pertinentes ao problema da sorte moral e responsabilidade, as quais neguem ou aceitem a influência da sorte na responsabilidade moral, indo do argumento epistêmico e os postulados de Zimmerman à crítica da agência pura de Walker e as considerações strawsonianas de Otsuka sobre as atitudes reativas.

The aim of following diploma's thesis is realization a financial analysis for the purpose to evaluate a company BERNARD Family brewery a.s. to 1/01/2015. The BERNARD Family brewery a.s. is a business with a short history, which deals with production of beer. The Diploma's thesis is divided into methodical and practical parts. The methodical part of the work will describe basic assumptions for the valuation, the basic way to evaluate and introduce used methods for analyzing environs of company and the company all itself. In the following introduction part I emphasize more detailed description of methods and models, which I'll later applied in the practical part of the work. The market value of a company is determined by comparing the yield methods DCF and property methods accounting value.

L'étude Koltès : zones d'ombre dans la cité contemporaine propose une lecture thématique selon laquelle dans toutes les pièces de l'auteur français contemporain Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), le plateau du théâtre met en scène une cité caractérisée par le danger, la destruction, Y animalité, le passage et la nuit. L'espace de la civilisation, dont la scène est la métaphore dans la dramaturgie de Koltès, est donc un espace de chaos. Pour sa part, le citoyen de cette cité est un étrange personnage, à l'image de la cité qu'il habite, hante, c'est-à-dire un être de destruction, de danger, d'animalité et de nuit - à moins que ce ne soit le contraire, que l'homme n'ait bâti la cité à son image. Dans ce théâtre, pour paraphraser un mot célèbre de Georges Duhamel, la civilisation ne semble pas être dans le cœur de l'homme ; peut-être est-elle nulle part - cela expliquerait les nombreuses et curieuses utopies que développent les personnages pour exprimer leur mal de la civilisation, voire leur mal de l'humanité.

Pendant que la théologie romaine se préoccupe de l'existence de Dieu et de la vérité éternelle, la théologie de la libération est confrontée à des faux dieux: le dieu du pouvoir, le dieu de l'image et le dieu de la richesse qui justifient l'exploitation de l'autre. Elle cherche donc le visage du vrai Dieu dans un monde qui proclame le règne absolu de l'humain. La théologie de la libération en Amérique latine et en Haïti va poser la question de la conversion chrétienne en tenant compte de la quête humaine de la vérité tout en la situant dans le contexte sociopolitique, économique et culturel du croyant. Cette théologie veut être le porteparole du processus de libération des personnes concrètes, les appauvris de l ' histoire. Une personne convertie serait celle qui discerne et découvre l'image de ce Dieu libérateur et miséricordieux qui s'engage aux côtés des hommes et des femmes en vue de leur libération intégrale.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 S75 / Master of Arts

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Africa, 2001.

Recent scholarship in biblical interpretation has remained suspicious of the "allegorical" approach to scripture, presumed as common to Medieval Christianity, and Bernard of Clairvaux is often acknowledged as paradigmatic of contemplative exegesis. Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs is often alleged to be an ultimate example of the dangers of monastic "allegorizing," in that such an approach lacks any consistency of method and maintains an ideological stance that is suspicious of and ultimately rejects the nature of bodily existence. This thesis counters these claims by utilizing the work of contemporary medievalists, instead of contemporary biblical exegetes, as a lens in a close reading of Bernard's Sermones Super Cantica, as well as his textual interaction with Peter Abelard and Peter the Venerable. This thesis suggests that Bernard is consistent in his method of performative reading and holds bodily existence as vital to the monastic and broader Christian way of life.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

The Isleños of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana trace their ancestry to eighteenth century settlers from the Canary Islands. Currently, St. Bernard Parish is home to two separate Canarian heritage organizations: Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society and the Canary Islands Descendents Association. This thesis examines how the Isleños are currently renegotiating their cultural identity through the use of heritage via the structure of heritage organizations. I argue that under mounting economic, environmental, and political pressure, people of Canarian descent in St. Bernard Parish have begun to adjust Isleño cultural identity in order to make it more widely inclusive. This is a creative means by which the Isleños attempt to maneuver around the increasingly rapid pace of change and deal with threats to the survival of their culture.