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  • Balancing corporate and social interests : corporate governance theory and practice 
    Rossouw, Deon (Business Ethics Network of Africa, 2008)
    The claim is often made that corporate governance is an attempt to balance corporate interests with individual and societal interests. Lord Adrian Cadbury, who chaired the Cadbury Commission that produced the Cadbury ...
  • Beyond the ivory tower : the public role of the intellectual today 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2008)
    In this paper, I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present, global, neo-liberal "govern-mentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, ...
  • Bodies, theology and Dante’s divine comedy : engaging Dante and Aïda Muluneh 
    Bosch, Rozelle Robson (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
    Placing the words Comedy and Africa in the same sentence, is like laying claim to two expansive and complex entities which do not immediately bear relation to another and yet, there is ample opportunity for engagement. ...
  • 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 ...
  • The challenge of consciousness with special reference to the exclusive disjunction 
    Antonites, Alex J. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-13)
    The theory of evolution makes sense of the emergence of consciousness. Reduction is not wrong as such, but must not be totalised. The fact that we are star stuff does not preclude the novelty of consciousness. Materialism ...
  • 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 ...
  • ‘Common purpose’: the crowd and the public 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Springer, 2015-02)
    The legal doctrine of ‘common purpose’ in South African criminal law considers all parties liable who have been in implicit or explicit agreement to commit an unlawful act, and associated with each other for that purpose, ...
  • Completing the complete understanding argument: a rejoinder to Roberto Di Ceglie 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Springer, 2023-04)
    In The Axiological Status of Theism and Other Worldviews (2020), I defend the Complete Understanding Argument for anti-theism, which says that God’s existence makes the world worse with respect to our ability to understand ...
  • The constellation subject-women-God in the ethics of Levinas 
    Wolff, Ernst (Unisa Press, 2007)
    Emmanuel Levinas was born one hundred years ago and today his work in philosophy as well as his Talmudic readings enjoys increasing attention in research in philosophy, literature, science of religion, theology and other ...
  • The contemporary pertinence of the later Foucault. Have his strategies of resistance stood the test of time? 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
    What happened during the fairly long silence following The History of Sexuality? … had he [Foucault] not trapped himself within the concept of power relations?’ asks Deleuze. According to him, Foucault would have answered ...
  • A contemporary sense of existentialism 
    Wardle, Darryl (Taylor & Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2016-08)
    Philosophical existentialism has sought to understand the nature of human existence and the possible meaning(s) that might be made thereof. For the noteworthy existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, the meaning of life cannot ...
  • The Covid-19 pandemic and meaning in life 
    Attoe, Aribiah David; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke (Unisa Press, 2020)
    In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, where death, sickness and suffering persist, there is some hint that there is nothing so special about the human race that particularly makes it immune to decimation. This is at odds ...
  • A critical reflection on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education 
    Sewchurran, Anusharani; Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (University of Free State, 2020)
    In this essay, we critically reflect on digital disruption in journalism and journalism education with specific focus on the South African context. After contextualising the problematics in terms of what Castells terms ...
  • The culture and subjectivity of neo-liberal governmentality 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2011)
    This article forms part of an ongoing investigation into and research on the dynamics, culture and forms of subjectivity of neo-liberalism. Seen through the lens of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s analyses of ...
  • Daring to disturb the universe : Heidegger's authenticity and The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock 
    Griffiths, D. (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2009-08)
    In Heidegger’s “Being and time” certain concepts are discussed which are central to the ontological constitution of “Dasein”. This article demonstrates the interesting way in which some of these concepts can be used in a ...
  • (De)coloniality through indigeneity : deconstructing calls to decolonise in the South African and Canadian University contexts 
    Almeida, Shana; Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko) (Unisa Press, 2018)
    The ways in which Africanisation and decolonisation in the South African academy have been framed and carried out have been called into question over the past several years, most notably in relation to modes of silencing ...
  • Defining accountability in a network society 
    Painter-Morland, Mollie (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2007-07)
    This paper challenges some of the basic epistemological assumptions that underpin our current conceptions of accountability. Recent legislative developments like Sarbanes-Oxley attempt to enhance accountability in the ...
  • Defining an African vocabulary for the exploration of possibilities in higher education 
    Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko) (CSSALL Publishers, 2018)
    In a review of Coetzee’s White Writing (1988) and Gordimer’s Essential Gesture (1988), Lewis Nkosi (1989) highlights fundamental deficits in South African literature. Owing to inadequate resources and statutory racial ...
  • Education for democracy 
    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 ...
  • The epistemic benefits of diversifying the philosophy of religion 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Akademos Press, 2022-03)
    There have been recent calls to expand contemporary analytic philosophy of religion beyond the oft implicitly assumed Christian tradition. Instead of exploring moral reasons to expand the discipline, I argue that there are ...