Politico-philosophical perspectives on reconciliation

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dc.contributor.authorVan Niekerk, Anton A.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-15T08:44:57Z
dc.date.available2012-09-15T08:44:57Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionCITATION: Van Niekerk, A.A. 2010. Politico-philosophical perspectives on reconciliation. Nederduitse Gereformeerde teologiese tydskrif / Dutch Reformed Theological Journal, 51(3):274-278, doi:10.5952/51-3-100.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://ngtt.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractENGLISH 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 reconciliation as an admirable theological doctrine, he doubts whether it is easily translatable into socio-political practice in South Africa. The settlement reached in the aftermath of apartheid is not primarily to be explicated in terms of a model of reconciliation where people forgive and learn to like one another, but rather in terms of the Hobbesian model of a “war of all against all”, redeemed by the restoration of basic values. The author analyses a variety of conceptions of reconciliation that were developed in the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process. In South Africa, the emphasis should be on the “concilium” aspect of reconciliation, i.e. the (re-) constitution of an assembly for social, political and economic deliberation. A general commitment of all South Africans to the values embedded in the South African constitution holds far more promise for a peaceful future than and narrow emphasis on the idea of reconciliation.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://ngtt.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/100
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent5 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationVan Niekerk, A.A. 2010. Politico-philosophical perspectives on reconciliation. Nederduitse Gereformeerde teologiese tydskrif / Dutch Reformed Theological Journal, 51(3):274-278, doi:10.5952/51-3-100en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2226-2385 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0028-2006 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5952/51-3-100
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/70424
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherPieter de Waal Neethling Trusten_ZA
dc.rights.holderPieter de Waal Neethling Trusten_ZA
dc.subjectReconciliation -- Philosophyen_ZA
dc.subjectReconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectPhilosophical meaningen_ZA
dc.subjectPolitical prospectsen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheiden_ZA
dc.subjectTruth commissions -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titlePolitico-philosophical perspectives on reconciliationen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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