Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Title
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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 ... -
An opinion survey of ethical concerns in environmental decision-making in Cape Town and Surrounds: the base line of 2002
(Stellenbosch University, 2004-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main objectives of this study were to determine the levels of confidence in the process of environmental decision-making in Cape Town and surrounds; to determine the possible causes of these concerns; ... -
Orientation and ambiguity - on a decisive hermeneutical dimension in Dirkie Smit's theological thinking
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)This essay explores Dirkie Smit’s theological thinking from a hermeneutical perspective. Smit’s linking up with Karl Barth’s view on confessing, as can be seen in the Accompanying Letter of the Belhar Confession, is taken ... -
Peculiarities in mind ; or, on the absence of Darwin
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2011)A key failing in contemporary philosophy of mind is the lack of attention paid to evolutionary theory in its research projects. Notably, where evolution is incorporated into the study of mind, the work being done is often ... -
Phronesis and an ethics of responsibility
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2013-06-24)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article concerns the development of a framework for the formation of an adequate approach to moral reasoning in bioethics. Bioethics has largely been dominated by the influence of two approaches to ... -
Politico-philosophical perspectives on reconciliation
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2010)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The article is an analysis of the philosophical meaning and political prospects of the idea of reconciliation between all South Africans. The author is sceptical about this prospect. While he regards ... -
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 ... -
Promoting responsible research conduct in a developing world academic context
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2013-06-21)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As reports of research misconduct seem to increase, research integrity and the promotion of responsible research conduct are important for academic institutions. This paper considers what research integrity ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Review of the second annual Ethics SA conference : an investigation of the state of ethics in South Africa
(SUNMeDIA, 2012)This review article documents the insights presented by the panel of speakers at the second annual Ethics SA conference, hosted in May 2012. The content pertains to the state of ethics in South Africa, with specific focus ... -
Some lessons from Kripke’s a puzzle about belief
(Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics, 2011)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The literature on Kripke’s A Puzzle About Belief has delivered convincing answers to the problem raised by Kripke. This is so both for referentialists and descriptivists. In this article I consider what ... -
Speaker's reference, semantic reference and public reference
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kripke (1977) views Donnellan’s (1966) misdescription cases as cases where semantic reference and speaker’s reference come apart. Such cases, however, are also cases where semantic reference conflicts ... -
Speaking of sustainable development and values... a response to Alistair Chadwick’s viewpoint responding to destructive interpersonal interactions : a way forward for school-based environmental educators
(Rhodes University : Environmental Education Department, 2004-12)It may be considered unfair to respond to a paper from the point of view of another discipline, especially if central issues or assumptions in that article are discussed critically. In this paper, comments are made ... -
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 ... -
Sustainable development, sustainable livelihoods and land reform in South Africa : a conceptual and ethical inquiry
(Carfax PublishingRoutledge, 2004)In this article various necessary conceptual linkages as well as contingent discontinuities between the concepts of land reform, sustainable livelihoods and sustainable development are studied. Exploring the complex ... -
They are all lies. Even Mother Theresa did it for herself
(Medknow Publications, 2008-11)In this paper we explore the question of what are we trying to achieve in teaching business ethics at undergraduate university level. The dominant normative model of business ethics suggests that the aim of business ethics ... -
Towards defending a semantic theory of expression in art : revisiting Goodman
(The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2012-09)Nelson Goodman’s attempt to analyse the expressiveness of artworks in semantic terms has been widely criticised. In this paper I try to show how the use of an adapted version of his concept of exemplification, as proposed ...
