Browsing Masters Degrees (Philosophy) by Title
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The justfiable limitations of patient autonomy in contemporary South African medical practice
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ABSTRACT: The European Enlightenment secured man’s freedom from doctrinal thought. Scientific progress and technological innovation flourished in the 18th Century, radically changing the lives of all. Man’s mastery ... -
Justice and the law : a perspective from contemporary jurisprudence
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the relationship between law and justice. Firstly, it is argued that the concept of justice tends to be defined too narrowly as distributive justice or as a mechanism to maintain ... -
Justice as fairness and property rights: beyond property-owning democracy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The aim of this thesis is to place the debate about the relationship between property rights and justice as fairness on a new footing. I begin by exploring Rawls’s argument that justice as fairness is ... -
Justice, entitlement and inheritance : exploring theoretical grounds for the rectification of manifest injustices through an analysis of inheritance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the possibility of promoting social justice through the direct confrontation and rectification of manifest injustices in our existing social institutions and practices, as opposed ... -
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Kompleksiteit en begronding in die werk van Hannah Arendt en Jaques Derrida
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this mini-thesis I explore Hannah Arendt’s engagement with the problem of foundation in relation to the work of Derrida and complexity theory. In Arendt the problem of foundation takes shape as the ... -
Die kompleksiteit van menswees in geneeskunde : 'n krities-filosofiese ondersoek
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dehumanising of human beings which often underpins western medicine lead to this study. Moreover a predominant mechanistic and reductionist view of a human being necessitated a philosophical investigation ... -
Ladyman’s Realism, van Fraassen’s Anti-Realism and Fine’s Middle-Way
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to critically analyse and evaluate the current debate between scientific realists and anti-realists. Some thinkers claim that the debate is a stalemate, with both parties appealing ... -
Leadership placement in organisations : a Drathian perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One school of thought on leadership propounds the idea that the individual leader is the source of leadership through personal dominance and intellectual influence. However, organisations are operating ... -
Lewenskwaliteit in biomediese konteks : filosofies-etiese ondersoek
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Every individual has a mental image of what a ‘good’ life entails. Whether this idea of a good life is based on hedonist, preference satisfaction or ideal theories, or a combination of these theories, ... -
The limits of virtue theory in business ethics
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The overall aim of this study is to establish the implications, effectiveness and limitations of making Aristotelian virtue theory a meta-theory of business. The study intends to test what the business ... -
Logical extensions of the responsibility to protect
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Are violent and non-violent mass atrocities morally different? According to the United Nations, they are. But why? The answer to this question is important as it in part determines our obligations to ... -
Love and arms : on violence and justification after Levinas
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What does it mean that the violence of aggression could justify the violence of resistance? What does such justification accomplish, and when, and how? What underlies the conditions and limitations of ... -
Management as communicative action: habermasian perspectives on the quest for responsible management education
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Management education, especially as practised in business schools, has been the subject of critical debate since the beginning of the 21st century. This was largely stimulated by concerns about the impact ... -
The meaning of work : an ethical perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central idea developed in this thesis is that meaningful work provides the normative standard of what work should be for all human beings, based on the normative idea that being human entails a ... -
Medical futility as an action guide in neonatal end-of-life decisions
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis discusses the value of medical futility as an action guide for neonatal endof- life decisions. The concept is contextualized within the narrative of medical progress, the uncertainty of ... -
The medical profession in a transforming South Africa society : ideals, values and role
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Medicine in our country is under severe stress, brought about by internal and external forces that need a response from the medical profession. The profession's attempts and response will fall short ... -
(Mis)identifying the phenomenological-semiotic locus of human sexual (in)difference
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The aim of this thesis is to critique the validity of selecting specific material features of human embodiment (such as sex or skin colour) as stable sources of identity. Insofar as such identities are ... -
Mite, metafoor en metafisika : stryd/spel op die grense 'tussen' poesie en filosofie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1995)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie word daar gepoog om op 'n filosofies verantwoordbare manier die verband tussen filosofie (verstaan in die breedste sin as 'liefde vir die wysheid') en poesie (verstaan in die ... -
Mood Enhancement as a Legitimate Goal of Medicine: Rethinking the Treatment-Enhancement Dichotomy in the Context of Human Wellbeing
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Human enhancement sparks intense debate and raises interesting moral questions, including the ethical implications for the medical profession as the potential gatekeeper of these technologies. ...
