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  • 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 ...
  • Oor die estetika van kos en die kookkuns
    Wolff, Ernst (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    The aesthetic nature of food and cooking is a neglected field in philosophical aesthetics. This neglect is due, among others, to the intellectual perspective on art and the anthropological dualism characteristic of modernism. ...
  • Openbare gesprek en wêreldlikheid. Aspekte van die politieke filosofie van Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2007-09)
    According to Hannah Arendt public discourse and 'worldliness' are two of the constitutive elements of or basic conditions for a healthy and flourishing political life amongst the citizens of a polity, which in turn is ...
  • The operation of platonic justice in the South African constitution
    Domanski, A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    Justice is one of the four Platonic or cardinal virtues. In his dialogues the Republic and the Laws, Plato presents a concept of justice far broader than the predominantly legalistic notions which we have received from ...
  • An optimistic Nietzsche : from laying blame to saying yes
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Du Plessis, Louis (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    The writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche speak in countless voices about innumerable questions of life. In this paper a very tentative perspective is provided on a few phenomena related to human wisdom. After ...
  • The paradox of morality in Nietzsche
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maniatis, Y.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In this essay I would like to investigate the phenomenon of the paradox that one finds when is dealing with the thought of Nietzsche on morality. Such a penetrating research into the realm of morality presupposes a tolerant ...
  • Performatiwiteit en selfonthulling as sleutelbegrippe in Hannah Arendt se etiek van deugdelikheid
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    The first three sections of this essay deal with certain aspects of Arendt's theory of action that are central to her idea of a truly ethical (i.e. virtuous) life. Considerable attention is given to her view of action as ...
  • The periclean notions of 'justice, excellence and citizenship'
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Philippoussis, John (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The purpose of this paper is, precisely, to exude, through a textual exegetical and hermeneutical analysis, the Periclean notions of justice, excellence and citizenship, especially in their differentiation and opposition ...
  • Philosophical premises of the Second King Report on Corporate Governance
    Rossouw, Deon (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2005)
    This article focuses on the philosophical presuppositions of the second King Report on corporate governance for South Africa (hereafter referred to as the King II Report). Especially in the "Introduction and Background" ...
  • Philosophike Martyria. Aristotle, Gadamer and the relevance of practical-ethical knowledge in a multicultural society
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Duvenage, Pieter (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Of what relevance is practical-ethical knowledge (phronesis) in a multicultural or plural society? This question will be addressed, in the first place, by revisiting the Aristotelian concept of phronesis. What is important ...
  • Philosophy and the University : trends and temptations
    Rossouw, Deon; Rossouw, Deon (University of Pretoria, 2006-07-19)
    Abstract by author: Mae West once said: "I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it." Oscar Wilde seems to have been even worse off when it comes to temptations as he said: "I can resist everything except ...
  • Plato and Vedanta
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Ram, Indranie (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Plato, humanity and globalisation
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Marshall, A.H. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Two books feature prominently in this article. The first is Karl Popper's Open Society and lts Enemies: The Spell of Plato written about 56 years ago during World War 11. The second is Plato's Republic written about 2,380 ...
  • Platonic justice and the unconscious
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Savulescu, G. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    We are different individual beings as we live on the earth. We may find in us qualities of the humanity behind us and we are not aware of the inherited richness we have. This bunch of qualities we have, and which imposes ...
  • Platonic justice for the new millennium?
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Gericke, J.D. (John Daniel) (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    As in past and present times, we will, in the new millennium, hear the cries for justice. Many will probably loose their lives in the name of justice. Maybe we as philosophers will find it beneficial to become citizens ...
  • The platonic pair “limit – infinitude” according to the neo-platonist Damascius
    Terezis, C.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    Damascius maintains that according to the Platonic text the cause and principle of Intelligence is the Limit, whereas that of Pleasure is Infinitude. By using the logical principle of analogy, he points out that any ...
  • Platonic temperance : the heart of a healthy constitution
    Domanski, A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Plato's notion of temperance, as elaborated in his dialogues the Republic and the Laws, is far removed from conventional modern thinking on the subject. Platonic temperance is as much a public as a private virtue. lts ...
  • Plato, Nietzsche and sublimation
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Berges, S. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In this paper I aim to refute the claim that Plato and Nietzsche are at opposite poles regarding the treatment of the non-rational elements of the soul, and argue that, instead, they share a complex and psychologically ...
  • Plato on justice as virtue - a safeguard against a static metaphysics of being and a postmodern meaning-relativism?
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Strauss, D.F.M. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Die kontemporêre wetenskaplike klimaat vertoon die beeld van toenemende disintegrasie - 'n fragmentasie wat sekerlik nie los te maak is van die modernisme/postmodernisme debat nie. Alhoewel Plato se soeke na die vermeende ...

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