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  • "Technology" as a critical social theory of human technicity 
    Wolff, Ernst (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2016)
    The aim of this article is to argue for an interdisciplinary social theoretical approach to the technicity of human agency. This approach covers the spectrum of individual and social action from a perspective that logically ...
  • Tegniek as bemiddeling tussen lewensritme en kosmiese ritme? 
    Wolff, Ernst (Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2009-12)
    Die doel van hierdie artikel is om na te dink oor ’n merkwaardige gebeurtenis waarin spitswetenskap en kuns mekaar ontmoet het: die astroseismologie van Conny Aerts en die komposisie van Willem Boogman. Op die punt van ...
  • Tegnologie as kritiese sosiale teorie 
    Wolff, Ernst (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-03)
    In this article the significance of technics for an acceptable perspective on human agency is presented in a descriptive and critical manner. The principal descriptive strategy adopted in this study is to approach ...
  • Tegnologie en morele opbou 
    Painter-Morland, Mollie; Pistorius, Calie (Carl W.I.), 1958- (South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2007-06)
    This paper explores the relationship between technology and moral regeneration. The first question we confront is whether technology can be described as value-neutral. If it can be described as such, it functions as a ...
  • 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 ...
  • ‘Thought without an image’ Deleuzian philosophy as an ethics of the event 
    Spangenberg, Yolanda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2009)
    According to Gilles Deleuze, all thinking, acting, experience and perception – indeed, all of life – is a process of imaging. Following Deleuze, philosophy then is not a discipline concerned with uncovering what the ...
  • Thrasymachus’ katabasis : relations of power and ideological struggle in Plato’s Republic Book I 
    Alloggio, Sergio (AfricaRhetoric Publishing, 2019)
    The philosophic and the class bases of relevance are even more crucial when it comes to the area of critical approaches and interpretations. For the critic, whether teacher, lecturer, interpreter or analyst, is a product ...
  • The tick, the gods and the contract 
    Delport, Petrus Terblanche (South african Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2012)
    The question that this paper will address is that of the human being’s relationship to technology and nature. The main argument considers how the human being is “world-forming” as opposed to the animal being “poor in ...
  • Trading in freedom : rethinking conspicuous consumption in post-apartheid political economy 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Routledge, 2015-03)
    This article investigates some accounts of conspicuous consumption in South Africa, tracing their variously linear, circular and disjunctive paths, identifying and explaining some methodological impasses, and concluding ...
  • Traditional African religion as a neglected form of monotheism 
    Metz, Thaddeus; Molefe, Motsamai (Oxford University Press, 2021-07)
    Our aims are to articulate some core philosophical positions characteristic of Traditional African Religion and to argue that they merit consideration as monotheist rivals to standard interpretations of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic ...
  • (Un-)shackling the University in the City 
    Kistner, Ulrike (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-11-16)
    This article examines the relation between the University of Pretoria and the City of Tshwane, outlining seven different kinds of relation as they have taken shape historically. The first type relation between the ...
  • Unchaining the human of the humanities 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Routledge, 2012)
    In his article, ‘Still searching for “the human”’, Premesh Lalu (2012, p. 1) decries the National Research Foundation’s decision to fund 60 new chairs at universities in South Africa, to foster research in line with the ...
  • Under new management : the ambiguities of 'transformation' in higher education 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Transformation, 2011)
    The academic institution in which I work makes of me – unintentionally on my part – a sociographic observer. The first thing to be noted in this sociography concerns the changing definition of the role of the university that ...
  • Universiteit als strijdtoneel. Over democratie, protest en geweld 
    Borren, Marieke (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)
    This article investigates the current student protests in South Africa in light of the meaning of democracy, the law and citizenship. It also addresses the fundamental question about the existence – if at all – of an ...
  • Unlocking human potential with ethics 
    Rossouw, Deon; Van Vuuren, Leon J. (Richard Havenga & Associates, 2005-02)
    If people are perceived to be assets and to be an organisation’s competitive edge, the business case for investing in, nurturing and developing human talent is clear. Companies not doing this may survive and could even ...
  • Verby die geweld van die metafisika : die Christelike erfenis en sekularisasie 
    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 ...
  • Verby objektivisme en subjektivisme : Nietzsche se opvatting van etiese selftransendensie 
    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 ...
  • Virtuositeit en grootsheid : aspekte van Hannah Arendt se “buite-morele” etiek van deugdelikheid 
    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 ...
  • Vox populi : on the idea popular public, somewhat paradoxically 
    Kistner, Ulrike (SUNMeDIA, 2014)
    Unprocedural strike action accompanied by high levels of violence pose challenges to union collective bargaining and other representative structures and institutions, evoking notions of the unruly crowd threatening ...
  • Vryheid en selfonthulling in Hannah Arendt se performatiewe opvatting van handeling 
    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 ...