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From dis-enclosure to decolonisation : in dialogue with Nancy and Mbembe on self-determination and the other
(MDPI, 2011-04-13)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What might a sense of decolonisation (not)/be? Or, what comes after the logic of the coloniser? This question is at the centre of many debates in South Africa and extends to all countries worldwide who ... -
Harm: The counterfactual comparative account, the omission and pre-emption problems, and well-being
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03)The concept of “harm” is ubiquitous in moral theorising, and yet remains poorly defined. Bradley suggests that the counterfactual comparative account of harm is the most plausible account currently available, but also ... -
The ethics of responsibility : the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2008-06)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics is based on the Other/other. He argues that we are in an asymmetrical relationship with our neighbour that pre-destines us to ethical responsibility even before consciousness or ... -
Complexity, postmodernism and the bioethical dilemma
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2008)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article examines the implications of a postmodern ethics for bioethical problems. Traditional approaches to bioethics, with specific reference to “principlism”, depend on a modernist strategy which ... -
Human rights discourse : friend or foe of African women’s sexual freedoms?
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: From an overview of the current state of the global debate on human rights, the need to strike a balance between the transcendent and immanent dimensions of such rights claims is distilled as an important ... -
On the paradox of the political/transcendence and Eschatology : transimmanence and the promise of love in Jean-Luc Nancy
(MDPI, 2017)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The debate on the possibility of re-thinking transcendence at the so-called end or closure of the metaphysical tradition and its relation to the political is situated at the heart of contemporary continental ... -
Price, virtues, principles: how to discern what inspires best practices in water management? a case study about small farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
(MDPI, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Improving water practices among small farmers in a water scarce area like the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is a complex task. Despite government attempts to enforce regulations and question the possibility ... -
"When everything starts to flow" : Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2015)A more explicit, comprehensive and sustained dialogue between the African philosophical and western feminist traditions would yield insights at once rich and useful to both traditions, and beyond. Here, I place the work ... -
Religion : a new Struggle for African Identity
(Unisa Press, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Looking at most African countries, one realises that the social imaginaries which make us who we are, continue to be an issue in every society. It is even more rampant when we think of the role religion ... -
Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy
(Unisa Press, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African ... -
A review of Aristotle’s claim regarding Pythagoreans fundamental Beliefs: all is number?
(Universidad do Vale de Rio dos Sinos, 2016)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question-statement, “All is number?”, the title of Zhmud’s famous 1989 article in Phronesis, opens a challenge to the extremely important Aristotelian testimony that “all is number” was the fundamental ... -
Public health and social justice : forging the links
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11)The purpose of this article is to explore the concept and scope of public health and to argue that particularly in low income contexts, where social injustice and poverty often impact significantly on the overall health ... -
Moral challenges in managed care
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11-26)Managed healthcare in South Africa is faced with complex moral challenges, where different stakeholders appeal to different ethics principles to guide decision-making. The traditional bio-medical ethics principles of ... -
Public health, beneficence and cosmopolitan justice
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2015-11-26)This article proposes that, in line with moral-cosmopolitan theorists, affluent nations have an obligation, founded in justice and not merely altruism or beneficence, to share the responsibility of the burden of public ... -
A note on name individuation and identifying descriptions
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics, 2014)In ‘Public Proper names and Idiolectical Identifying Descriptions’ (2009) Glezakos puts forward a theory concerning the role of identifying descriptions in the theory of names. Her main claim is that such identifying ... -
Spreke en saamleef : oor korrektheid en waarheid in Suid-Afrika se kultuurpolitieke diskoers
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-12)Johan Degenaar begin sy opstel oor “Die paradigma van volksnasionalisme” in sy bundel Moraliteit en Politiek (Degenaar 1976) met ’n verhaal oor 'n insident wat hy die vorige jaar meegemaak het. Nodeloos om daarmee rekening ... -
Moral perspectives on covert research
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2014-11-04)The term ‘covert research’ refers to research on human subjects for which informed consent is not, and allegedly cannot, be solicited – not because of wilful negligence or the deliberate transgression of research ethics ... -
Why the world is still unequal : on the apparatuses of justification and interpassivity
(SUNMeDIA, 2014-11)Inequality offends our moral sensibilities, yet there is no urgency to address it. This article explains the lack of an adequate response to inequality by outlining two apparatuses conspiring to perpetuate inequality – ... -
From inequality to equality : evaluating normative justifications for affirmative action as racial redress
(SUNMeDIA, 2014-11)We investigate whether, and to what extent, Nozick’s entitlement theory and Rawls’s theory of justice as fairness can normatively ground affirmative action policies. Our findings are that, whereas the Nozickean project ... -
How not to be a metaethical naturalist - Jesse Prinz on the emotional construction of morals
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-07)Jesse Prinz develops a naturalistic metaethical theory with which he purports to sidestep ‘Hume's law’ by demonstrating how, on his theory, in describing what our moral beliefs commit us to we can determine what our moral ...
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