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(Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2022-03)In Hausa worldview, Peaceful living (Zaman Lafiya) is conceived as the chief goal of life. Zaman Lafiya is that which determines goodness or badness of actions and practices. Everything, including morality, life, death ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)The relentless desire of Western states to create true world citizenship is currently the focus of a number of major studies in economics, politics, information sciences as well as philosophy. The challenge of the global ...
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(Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2021-03)In this essay, we explore what the African Philosophy of Religion would look like from both a mono-disciplinary and comparative perspectives. To do this, a few concepts such as Gods, ancestorhood, relationality, and the ...
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(Calabar School of Philosophy, 2018-01)In this article, we argue that language-based techniques have the capacity to generate original ideas and thus account for progress in any discipline. We claim that language-based techniques used by some African scholars ...
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(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2015)Contemporary African philosophy ranges over a number of debates, positions, and theoretical traditions. It can, however, be read as its own critical tradition of hard-won methodological refinements and substantive ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-05)This article explores the support of the "Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika" (NHKA) for the ideology of apartheid. Official documents of this church are examined within the framework of changing accents in Afrikaner ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2008)After a number of spectacular moral failures in corporations despite them having had codes of ethics and ethics programmes, it has become clear that a mere reliance on codes of ethics and ethics compliance programmes ...
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(Business Ethics Network of Africa, 2008)The claim is often made that corporate governance is an attempt to balance corporate interests with individual and societal interests. Lord Adrian Cadbury, who chaired the Cadbury Commission that produced the Cadbury ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2008)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, ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)Placing the words Comedy and Africa in the same sentence, is like laying claim to two expansive and complex entities which do not immediately bear relation to another and yet, there is ample opportunity for engagement. ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)The intention of this paper is to discuss the question: How can God actually know the future with the emphasis on Maximus the Confessor. Foreknowledge is generally regarded as one of the typical attributes of God's divine ...
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(MDPI, 2022-10-31)Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to the normal functioning of societies around ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-13)The theory of evolution makes sense of the emergence of consciousness. Reduction is not wrong as such, but must not be totalised. The fact that we are star stuff does not preclude the novelty of consciousness. Materialism ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)The basic argument of this paper runs as follows: Using a combination of the doctrine of free will as found in Milton's Areopagitica and the Biblical doctrine of grace as a Christian philosophical basis, Christianity is ...
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(Unisa Press, 2007)Emmanuel Levinas was born one hundred years ago and today his work in philosophy as well as his Talmudic readings enjoys increasing attention in research in philosophy, literature, science of religion, theology and other ...
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(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)What happened during the fairly long silence following The History of Sexuality? … had he [Foucault] not trapped himself within the concept of power relations?’ asks Deleuze. According to him, Foucault would have answered ...
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(Unisa Press, 2020)In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, where death, sickness and suffering persist, there is some hint that there is nothing so special about the human race that particularly makes it immune to decimation. This is at odds ...
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(University of Free State, 2020)In this essay, we critically reflect on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education with specific focus on the South African context. After contextualising the problematics in terms of what Castells terms ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2011)This article forms part of an ongoing investigation into and research on the dynamics, culture and forms of subjectivity of neo-liberalism. Seen through the lens of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s analyses of ...
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(Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2009-08)In Heidegger’s “Being and time” certain concepts are discussed which are central to the ontological constitution of “Dasein”. This article demonstrates the interesting way in which some of these concepts can be used in a ...
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