Samvete och samvetsfrihet : en analys av samvetskonflikter i det svenska samhället och av begreppen samvete och samvetsfrihet.
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Summary, in English
The aim of this study is to describe and analyse four conflicts and two concepts.
Four conflicts of conscience found in Swedish society are studied in the second chapter. 2.2 - the state’s requirement that all male citizens do military service and the citizen’s right to refuse to do military service. 2.3 - obligatory course requirements and the college student’s right to refuse participation in certain practical studies for reasons of conscience. 2.4 - the minister’s right to refuse to marry a couple based on matters of conscience vs the vows a minister has taken to perform such ceremonies. And 2.5 -the conflict which arises when a minister who is opposed to the ordination of women as ministers, is expected to cooperate with women ministers although he has conscience-based reasons for not doing so.
In the third chapter I discuss six different theories of conscience and a suggested definition is presented. In the fourth chapter I present five arguments for freedom of conscience and a typology is provided and applied to the conflicts of conscience studied in order to answer the question of whether or not there is ample freedom to follow one’s conscience.
Four conflicts of conscience found in Swedish society are studied in the second chapter. 2.2 - the state’s requirement that all male citizens do military service and the citizen’s right to refuse to do military service. 2.3 - obligatory course requirements and the college student’s right to refuse participation in certain practical studies for reasons of conscience. 2.4 - the minister’s right to refuse to marry a couple based on matters of conscience vs the vows a minister has taken to perform such ceremonies. And 2.5 -the conflict which arises when a minister who is opposed to the ordination of women as ministers, is expected to cooperate with women ministers although he has conscience-based reasons for not doing so.
In the third chapter I discuss six different theories of conscience and a suggested definition is presented. In the fourth chapter I present five arguments for freedom of conscience and a typology is provided and applied to the conflicts of conscience studied in order to answer the question of whether or not there is ample freedom to follow one’s conscience.
Department/s
Publishing year
2002
Language
Swedish
Publication/Series
Lund Studies in Ethics and Theology
Volume
11
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Document type
Dissertation
Topic
- Religious Studies
Keywords
- Conscience
- Kristen teologi (allmän
- Moral Psychology
- General
- Ethics
- Lutheran Ethics
- Freedom of Conscience
- Christian Ethics
- Conscientious Refusal
- systematic and practical Christian theology
- systematisk och praktisk)
- Moral science
- Morallära
Status
Published
Supervisor
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1102-769X
Defence date
7 December 2002
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Samarkand, Akademiska Föreningen, Sandgatan 2, Lund
Opponent
- Göran Möller (Docent)