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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy) by Issue Date
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(University of Pretoria, 1952)Geen abstrak
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(University of Pretoria, 1976)The two questions : "What is the point of life?" and "What is the point of art?" are complex. There is some confusion about what is meant by the first question and what sort of answer or answers we can reasonably expect. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1980)In die 20ste eeuse, gemanipuleerde wereld het die mens deur gebruikmaking van die berekende denke alles, selfs God, tot die beplanbare en berekenbare gedegradeer, danksy die hulp van die moederwetenskap, naamlik die ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2000)In 1844, when Kierkegaard published his work, The Concept of Anxiety, under the pseudonym of Vigilius Haufuiensis, it constituted no mean feat for a variety of reasons. Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, was the content ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2001)Please read the abstract in the section 08summary, of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-10-29)With this dissertation, firstly, I address the issue of Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) so-called ‘immoralism’. When he calls himself an ‘immoralist’ and even ‘the first immoralist’ (EH Destiny 2), he seems to be the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-01-17)This dissertation is an attempt to examine the political implications of the ethos of self-persecution that accompanied the rise of modern man. The attempt at achieving self-transparency and to locate a final, deep 'truth' ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-01-10)AFRIKAANS: Sover ons kennis strek stam die woord mistiek uit die Griekse misteriekultusse en is in die vyftiende eeu deur Jean de Gerson gedefinieer as ervaarbare kennis van God deur die omhelsing van verenigende liefde. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-28)This dissertation addresses the ontological significance of poetry in the thought of Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976). It gives an account of both his earlier and later thinking. The central argument of the dissertation is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-19)Please read the abstract in the 07abstract part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-06-19)Contemporary debates in ethics are characterised by opposing views that appear to be irreconcilable. Rational debates seem to be making no headway due to the fact that the incompatibilities of the different views seem to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-06-02)The ancient Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes, and the philosophy of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) both assert that the universe exists in a state of change. The I Ching, originally a book of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-17)No abstract available.
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-08-13)This study explores the nature of writing and the sorts of presence that writing gives us access to. This understanding of writing includes not only all speaking and all writing in the narrow sense of marks on a page, but ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-10-13)Meister Eckhart understands that human beings are thrown into meaning, that we live out our lives in meaning and that the source of this meaning is beyond our understanding. We always have an understanding of the world in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-05-07)This study explores the problem of how we perceive built space and relate to its abstract representations. In 1897, Poincaré presented the problem of space for the 20th century in his essay ‘The Relativity of Space’, in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-06-18)This thesis investigates how the different aspects and claims associated with moral relativism can be applied to the issue of corporate governance convergence. The question of how corporate governance models may be converging ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-07-05)This dissertation examines the potential dependence of praxis upon poiesis. The relation between praxis and poiesis, or action and work, is complicated by the conflicting qualities and principles of each. This tension, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This dissertation exposes the status of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The focus of this research is the cultural assumptions underpinning Africa’s strategies of economic development, taking the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as case studies. ...
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