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  • Platonic temperance : the heart of a healthy constitution 
    Domanski, A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Plato's notion of temperance, as elaborated in his dialogues the Republic and the Laws, is far removed from conventional modern thinking on the subject. Platonic temperance is as much a public as a private virtue. lts ...
  • Socrates as a problem for Nietzsche 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Evangeliou, Christos (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    There is a tragic element in the respective fates of these two men of genius, Socrates (446-399BC) and Nietzsche (1844-1900), that connects them and keeps them in the memories of sympathetic students of philosophy, in spite ...
  • An optimistic Nietzsche : from laying blame to saying yes 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Du Plessis, Louis (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    The writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche speak in countless voices about innumerable questions of life. In this paper a very tentative perspective is provided on a few phenomena related to human wisdom. After ...
  • "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 ...
  • Nietzsche's revaluation of the cardinal virtues: the case of Sophrosyne 
    Van Tongeren, Paul; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Peter Geach is reported to have said that temperance is far from being an interesting subject, but "rather a humdrum common sense matter". I hope to show that his opinion proves that he did not know the early history of ...
  • Nietzsche and evolutionary theory 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Botha, Catherine Frances (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Poststructuralist thinkers tend to emphasise Nietzsche's critical relationship to science, as a result of their scepticism towards scientific discourse in general. Their interpretation of Nietzsche in this regard is ...
  • Nietzsche: history as memento vivere 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Roodt, V. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
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  • Plato, Nietzsche and sublimation 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Berges, S. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In this paper I aim to refute the claim that Plato and Nietzsche are at opposite poles regarding the treatment of the non-rational elements of the soul, and argue that, instead, they share a complex and psychologically ...
  • 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 ...
  • The relevance of Nietzsche's thought to the problem of authentic existence - with special reference to the birth of tragedy from the spirit of music 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Rauche, G.A. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In discussing the relevance of Nietzsche's thought to human existence, we shall not concentrate so much on Nietzsche's wellknown influence on theory, on the theories of thinkers such as Freud, Jung, Heidegger and those ...
  • Renarrativizing Plato 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Wilkinson, Lisa Atwood (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Postmodernism makes it difficult to maintain, among other things, that historical facts are discovered or found, that these 'facts', things like names, dates, places and events, somehow speak for themselves, although ...
  • 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 ...
  • Plotinus as a kind of deep ecologist? 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Blakeley, D.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    This paper examines the extent to which the cosmology presented in the Enneads can support an environmental philosophy that would be of contemporary interest. Four major features of the deep ecology position of Arne Naess ...
  • The paradox of morality in Nietzsche 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maniatis, Y.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In this essay I would like to investigate the phenomenon of the paradox that one finds when is dealing with the thought of Nietzsche on morality. Such a penetrating research into the realm of morality presupposes a tolerant ...
  • 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 role of Phaos in Nietzsche, Heraclitus and Plato 
    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 general purpose of this paper is to discuss various ways in which the contemporary philosophical issues of nihilism and relativism are related to pre-Socratic and Socratic and Platonic thought. Although Heidegger ...
  • 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
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The periclean notions of 'justice, excellence and citizenship' 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Philippoussis, John (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The purpose of this paper is, precisely, to exude, through a textual exegetical and hermeneutical analysis, the Periclean notions of justice, excellence and citizenship, especially in their differentiation and opposition ...