Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Issue Date

Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Issue Date

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  • Justice as virtue and harmony: a socratic account 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Evangeliou, Christos (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In what follows I would like to try to draw your attention to certain passages from Plato and Xenophon which are indicative, I believe, of the Socratic way of philosophising as it relates to his novel conception of justice ...
  • The necessity of the feminine virtues in the formation of the citizen 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Marangianou, E. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The present paper aims to accentuate the necessity of feminine virtues in the formation of citizens, and the significanee they acquire for a person wishing to participate in public affairs in contemporary society. In so ...
  • 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 ...
  • Women as citizens in Plato's "politeia” 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Kasotaki-Gatopoulou, I. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Plato seems to be a feminist only in our imagination. It is extremely utopic even to imagine that, as a modern thinker, he would play a leading part in any claim for the improvement of the individual conditions of life and ...
  • 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 ...
  • The universe is made of stories, not of Atoms 
    Van Marle, Karin (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper I would like to highlight the significa nee of an Aristotelian concept of justice for South African legal and political transformation. I believe that if it is necessary in philosophy, political theory and ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The status of non-citizens : equivalence between platonic and contemporary citizenship 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maritz, P.J. (Petrus Jacobus) (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    This paper will discuss approaching the ideal of becoming a good citizen from the perspective of transforming a non-citizen (understood in its modern context) into a good citizen (understood in its Platonic sense ). In ...
  • The stoic cosmopolis: a vision of justice and virtue in a multicultural society 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Tsolis, T.L. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The philosophical movements which evolved under circumstances of interaction of socio-political and cultural elements during late Hellenistic and early Roman times are characterised by a strong interest in social problems, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 relationship between ethics (theory) and morality (practice) 
    Rauche, G.A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    If a study is made of ethics in Western thought, a structure in moral theories as they have been constituted throughout the centuries in terms of changing, variabie conditions of life, manis contingent life-experience, the ...
  • 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
  • Is democracy the best expression of justice, virtues and citizenship? 
    Antonites, Alex J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Aristotle's concept of rationality which involves a virtuous life stands in continuity with contemporary democratic states. This rational virtue as wisdom obtains an enlarged interpretation in contemporary democracies. ...
  • The just republic and the idea of citizenship in the global communication 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Boudouris, Konstantine (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Let's assume that a Martian (human being) comes down to Earth and wishes to remain here for the rest of his life. He would be confronted with the choice of society in which he would live ever after. After describing to him ...
  • Plato's views on crime and punishment 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Ladikos, Anastasios (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Plato has adopted and adapted, abandoned or expanded and generally redetermined (or reascertained) and reshaped a vast range of criminological ideas and practices in such a way as to combine intense conservatism with radical ...
  • The ontological relation of value, virtue and justice 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Athansopoulos, C (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    What we tried to do in this presentation is to chart the ontological relation of the three most important concepts of value, virtue and justice. We found that in Aristotle the three are intimately, ontologically and ...