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  • Liberale welsynstaat – demokrasie of meritokrasie?
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2010-03)
    Pogings om die liberale welsynstaat te hervorm skyn futiel te wees. Wat nodig is, is ’n afskeid van die terapeutiese model en ’n rehabilitasie van die gemeenskap-gesentreerde benadering. Kliënte van die dienste-industrie ...
  • Liefs nie op straat nie. Die openbare rol van die intellektueel vandag
    Hofmeyr, A.B. (Benda) (LitNet, 2009-03)
    In this paper I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present global, neo-liberal "govern-mentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, ...
  • Mediologie en hermeneutiek
    Wolff, Ernst (South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2007-03)
    ENGLISH: Mediology, founded by Régis Debray, is a new science that sets itself the goal of understanding how ideas are transmitted and become effective. It clearly stands in close relationship to hermeneutics, but this ...
  • Meta-physics of Foucault's ethics : succeeding where Levinas fails
    Hofmeyr, A.B. (Benda) (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    This essay aims to critically assess the later Foucault's ethical turn by using Levinas's ethical metaphysics as critical yardstick. Foucault's notion of ethical subjectivity constitutes a site of resistance against ...
  • More than a stage : the World in Hannah Arendt's Philosophy of Action
    Vivier, Elmé (Philosophical Association of Southern Africa, 2008)
    Paper presented during the Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 16 - 18 January 2008. Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. ABSTRACT: This paper explores the centrality ...
  • Muthos, logos, nous: in pursuit of the ultimate in human thought
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie); South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • The necessary (non-arbitrary) conditions making possible the arbitrariness of the lingual sign
    Strauss, Danie (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
    Paper presented during the Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 16 - 18 January 2008. Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. ABSTRACT: Most modern linguists emphasize ...
  • The necessity of the feminine virtues in the formation of the citizen
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Marangianou, E. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The present paper aims to accentuate the necessity of feminine virtues in the formation of citizens, and the significanee they acquire for a person wishing to participate in public affairs in contemporary society. In so ...
  • New ethics of technology. A discourse in Germany in the 1990s
    Gruner, Stefan (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
    Paper presented during the Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 16 - 18 January 2008. Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. ABSTRACT: The mid-1990s in Germany had ...
  • Nietzsche and Arendt in Casterbridge: on the burden of history
    Mabille, Louise; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    The article raises the question whether postmodern attempts to re-write history does not, despite its best efforts, fall back into the homogeneity of metanarrative. By doing this, Nietzsche's critique of monumental ...
  • Nietzsche and evolutionary theory
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Botha, Catherine F. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Poststructuralist thinkers tend to emphasise Nietzsche's critical relationship to science, as a result of their scepticism towards scientific discourse in general. Their interpretation of Nietzsche in this regard is ...
  • Nietzsche, Democracy and Transcendence
    Van Tongeren, Paul; Tongeren, Paul van (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
    Socialism, utilitarianism and democracy are, according to Nietzsche, secularised versions of Christianity. They have continued the monomaniac one-sidedness of the Christian idea of what a human being is and should be, and ...
  • Nietzsche: history as memento vivere
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Roodt, V. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    No abstract available.
  • Nietzsche on tragedy and Socrates
    Evangeliou, Christos; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Socrates appears to have been the perpetual target of Nietzsche's manic critique. His accusation of Socrates as ultimately responsible for the untimely death of Greek tragedy acquires both comic aspects and tragic proportions, ...
  • Nietzsche se beskouings oor die deugde van matigheid en generositeit
    Schoeman, Marinus J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    The concepts of temperance and magnanimity (generosity) play a central role in Nietzsche's ethic, which is basically an ethic of virtue. In his own unique way, and in accordance with his extra-moral view of life, ...
  • Nietzsche's revaluation of the cardinal virtues: the case of Sophrosyne
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Van Tongeren, Paul; Tongeren, Paul van (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Peter Geach is reported to have said that temperance is far from being an interesting subject, but "rather a humdrum common sense matter". I hope to show that his opinion proves that he did not know the early history of ...
  • Nietzsche, violence and justice : towards a rehabilitation of dike
    Mabille, Louise; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Nut of gees? Die stand van die geesteswetenskappe in Suid-Afrika
    Hofmeyr, A.B. (Benda) (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-12)
    This contribution critically considers the findings and recommendations of the report published in 2011 by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) on the state of the humanities in South Africa. The study concludes ...
  • One more time : views on Aristotle's philosophy and intercultural philosophy
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Van der Westhuizen, Jacob (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • The ontological relation of value, virtue and justice
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Athansopoulos, C (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    What we tried to do in this presentation is to chart the ontological relation of the three most important concepts of value, virtue and justice. We found that in Aristotle the three are intimately, ontologically and ...

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