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  • Tegniek as bemiddeling tussen lewensritme en kosmiese ritme?
    Wolff, Ernst (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2009-12)
    Die doel van hierdie artikel is om na te dink oor ’n merkwaardige gebeurtenis waarin spitswetenskap en kuns mekaar ontmoet het: die astroseismologie van Conny Aerts en die komposisie van Willem Boogman. Op die punt van ...
  • Tegnologie as kritiese sosiale teorie
    Wolff, Ernst (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-03)
    In this article the significance of technics for an acceptable perspective on human agency is presented in a descriptive and critical manner. The principal descriptive strategy adopted in this study is to approach ...
  • Tegnologie en morele opbou
    Painter-Morland, Mollie; Pistorius, Calie (Carl W.I.), 1958- (South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2007-06)
    This paper explores the relationship between technology and moral regeneration. The first question we confront is whether technology can be described as value-neutral. If it can be described as such, it functions as a ...
  • The universe is made of stories, not of Atoms
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Van Marle, Karin (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper I would like to highlight the significa nee of an Aristotelian concept of justice for South African legal and political transformation. I believe that if it is necessary in philosophy, political theory and ...
  • ‘Thought without an image’ Deleuzian philosophy as an ethics of the event
    Spangenberg, Yolanda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2009)
    According to Gilles Deleuze, all thinking, acting, experience and perception – indeed, all of life – is a process of imaging. Following Deleuze, philosophy then is not a discipline concerned with uncovering what the ...
  • Unlocking human potential with ethics
    Rossouw, Deon; Van Vuuren, Leon J. (Richard Havenga & Associates, 2005-02)
    If people are perceived to be assets and to be an organisation’s competitive edge, the business case for investing in, nurturing and developing human talent is clear. Companies not doing this may survive and could even ...
  • Verby die geweld van die metafisika : die Christelike erfenis en sekularisasie
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    This essay reinterprets Christian faith in terms of the contemporary philosophical discourse on nihilism and the "end" of metaphysics, especially Heidegger's ontology of "decline." If Christianity is to regain its relevance ...
  • Verby objektivisme en subjektivisme : Nietzsche se opvatting van etiese selftransendensie
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2006-03)
    The issue of self-transcendence today, more than ever, confronts philosophical ethics. The challenge is to conceptualise self-transcendence in such a way that one arrives at a position beyond both the extremes of subjectivism ...
  • The virtue of education
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Higgs, P. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The ethical paradox of the postmodern condition is that it restores to agents the fullness of moral choice and responsibility, while simultaneously depriving them of the comfort of the universal guidance that modern ...
  • Virtuositeit en grootsheid : aspekte van Hannah Arendt se “buite-morele” etiek van deugdelikheid
    Schoeman, Marinus J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)
    This article focuses on the “extra-moral” character of Arendt’s view of action and virtuousness. Particular attention is given to her a-teleological, performative (dramaturgical) view of action, which was inspired by the ...
  • Was Plato's Socrates convicted by a biased jury?
    Ackah, Kofi; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • Women as citizens in Plato's "politeia”
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Kasotaki-Gatopoulou, I. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Plato seems to be a feminist only in our imagination. It is extremely utopic even to imagine that, as a modern thinker, he would play a leading part in any claim for the improvement of the individual conditions of life and ...
  • Women as containers in classical and African/Yoruba cultures
    Onayemi, Folake; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • The world in identity in Heraclitus
    Maniatis, Y.N.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Heraclitus is not only the philosopher of the law of constant change but also the philosopher of identity. The fact that the cosmos is one and the same for itself and for all, means that it is in unity and identity with ...

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