Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Subject "Plato -- Contributions in philosophy of justice"

Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Subject "Plato -- Contributions in philosophy of justice"

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  • Greek thought in arab ethics: Miskawayh's theory of justice 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Mohamed, Y. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Miskawayh (d. 1030) was the first Arab philosopher to have written a substantial work on ethics, The Refinement of Character, which had a great impact on the development of Islamic philosophical ethics after him. In this ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Principles of justice in Plato's republic 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Domanski, A. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    My subject today is perhaps the most famous and influential of the Platonic dialogues, the Republic. This immortal work, which may fairly be described as the founding charter of Western civilisation, deals with many questions ...
  • Social justice and genetic engineering : what Plato might have said 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Botha, C. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper, I explore the concepts of self-realisation, health and justice as they specifically pertain to human genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is a fledgling, but rapidly developing set of technologies, whose ...