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  • Address by Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane, at the South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities Conference on "Ethics, politics, criminality : perspectives from Greek Philosophy and Africa", Tshwane, 4 May 2005 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Mkhatshwa, S. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • An african challenge to the western logics of excess 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Duffy, I. (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 ...
  • Alteration and identity : Heraclitus, the earlier presocratics, and contemporary science 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maniatis, Y.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this essay lexamine the theory of alteration and identity of the cosmos and the Being in the Presocratics, from Thales to Parmenides. We try to show that it was really Heraclitus, the first Presocratic philosopher, who ...
  • Ancient scepticism : a chance for happiness 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Wilkinson, Lisa Atwood (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)
    In this paper, an attempt will be made to examine the concept ataraxia as it appears in the works of Pyrro of Elis, Sextus Empiricus and other philosophers belonging to the ancient sceptical tradition. This school of thought ...
  • Aristotle and the South African Constitution: the Presence of the Past 
    Okharedia, Akhabue A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Aristotle's philosophy of human life 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Sotshangane, N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Aristotle's philosophy of human life
  • Aristotle's Stoichiology : its rejection and revivals 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Bargeliotes, L.C. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)
    Aristotle's rejection and reconstruction of the Pythagorean mathematization of things, of the Democritean and Platonic atomism, and the "materialism" of the pre-Aristotelian cosmologies, in general, are mostly based on his ...
  • Autonomy, Authority, and law abiding: Aristotle EN V.1-2 
    Benitez, E.E.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • The birth of tragedy, a Nietzschean aetiological myth 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Reedy, J. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Classicists, philosophers, literary critics and various other scholars have long been interested in the origin and nature of tragedy. Among English speaking scholars A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, Sir William Ridgeway, Gilbert ...
  • Brief remarks regarding the problem of divine npovoia in Maximus the Confessor 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Gericke, J.D. (John Daniel) (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 ...
  • Christianity and the state : towards a liberal politics 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Langley, J. (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 ...
  • The citizenship of the philosopher 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Boudouris, Sophia K. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper I will attempt to answer the question: To which polis can the philosopher rightly claim citizenship? In order to answer this question, I must clarify some specific issues, such as: 1) From an archeological ...
  • Citizenship, virtue and the "theory-praxis" problem: a platonic approach 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Lambrellis, D.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    It would appear that the familiar "theory-praxis" problem may be set out in a dramatic way as follows: Should a theory be radically reevaluated or even renounced when it does not lead to its implementation in practice, ...
  • The common good, moral education and criminality 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Boudouris, Konstantine (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Deskriptiewe-analitiese ondersoek na die verskynsel van sinkretisme 
    Beyers, Jaco; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    The traditional definition of the term syncretism is not only vague and cryptic, but it is also used in a pejorative sense. Many attempts have been made to re-define the term syncretism. All definitions are determined by ...
  • The dialectical method in Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics 
    Finnigan, Bronwyn; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • Did the cynics condone theft? Possession and dispossession in the Diogenes tradition 
    Bosman, Phlip; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Difference and participation in Plato's parmenides 
    Zistakis, Alexandar H.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    In this paper we are examining two crucial conceptions, and therefore also problems, of the Platonic corpus; conceptions of difference and participation that establish, constitute and structure his entire thought (regardless ...
  • Difference, aupTTAoKtl and the hierarchy of ideas in Plato's Sophist 
    Zistakis, Alexandar H.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • "Dionysian feast with Nietzsche" 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Papatheophilou, A. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    The play "Dionysian feast with Nietzsche" is the second part of the trilogy "Nietzsche, the philosopher and his times". The play attempts to give to the audience some of the main ideas of Nietzsche's philosophy, these being ...