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Browsing by UP Author "Schoeman, Marinus J."
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2010)
This article takes it cue from John Dewey and his views on the interrelationship
between democracy and education. The basic premise is that education
and democracy are inextricably linked and that in a free society the ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-03)
Over the past few decades vocational training has increasingly become the norm within our
universities. This, together with the demand for democratisation and “social” equality, resulted
in the eclipse of the classical ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
Nietzsche's ethics is basically an ethics of virtue. In his own unique way, and in accordance with his extra-moral view of life, Nietzsche recovers and re-appropriates certain virtues - notably pagan, aristocratic virtues ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2015-03)
Action, virtue and forgiveness in the political thought of Hannah Arendt
This article explores the interrelated concepts of action, virtue and forgiveness in the political
thought of Hannah Arend. For Arendt a truly ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)
In the first part, this article explores an important phenomenon of our time, i.e. the resurgence
of revolutionary liberation movements. Basically, all revolutionary movements since the 18th
century rest on at least two ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2010-03)
Pogings om die liberale welsynstaat te hervorm skyn futiel te wees. Wat nodig is, is ’n afskeid
van die terapeutiese model en ’n rehabilitasie van die gemeenskap-gesentreerde benadering. Kliënte van die dienste-industrie ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2013-09)
Towards the end of his book Des Hégémonies Brisées which appeared in 1996 (Eng. translation Broken Hegemonies 2003), Reiner Schürmann came to the conclusion that ethics and morals do not belong to (and should be banned ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
The concepts of temperance and magnanimity (generosity) play a central role in Nietzsche's ethic, which is basically an ethic of virtue. In his own unique way, and in accordance with his extra-moral view of life, ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2007-09)
According to Hannah Arendt public discourse and 'worldliness' are two of the constitutive elements of or basic conditions for a healthy and flourishing political life amongst the citizens of a
polity, which in turn is ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
The first three sections of this essay deal with certain aspects of Arendt's theory of action that are central to her idea of a truly ethical (i.e. virtuous) life. Considerable attention is given to her view of action as ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-09)
The past two decades are characterised by a growing radicalization of politics and a resurgence
of ideologies. This inevitably leads to a disregard for the plurality and multifariousness of
people(s), thereby posing a ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
This essay reinterprets Christian faith in terms of the contemporary philosophical discourse on nihilism and the "end" of metaphysics, especially Heidegger's ontology of "decline." If Christianity is to regain its relevance ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2006-03)
The issue of self-transcendence today, more than ever, confronts philosophical ethics. The challenge is to conceptualise self-transcendence in such a way that one arrives at a position beyond both the extremes of subjectivism ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)
This article focuses on the “extra-moral” character of Arendt’s view of action and virtuousness. Particular attention is given to her a-teleological, performative (dramaturgical) view of action, which was inspired by the ...
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Schoeman, Marinus J.
(Peeters Publishers, 2015)
In the first six sections of this article the author discusses various aspects of Arendt’s view of freedom. Particular attention is given to her performative (dramaturgical) view of action and to her idea of the self-revelatory ...