Browsing Research Articles (Philosophy) by Title

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  • Nihilisme en moraal 
    Van Tongeren, Paul (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2013-12)
    The term "nihilism" is often used as an invective to blame a person or a way of thinking. If used in that way there would be a simple opposition between "nihilism and morality". That opposition could maybe point to a ...
  • No-fault unbelief defended : a reply to Roberto Di Ceglie 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Springer, 2021)
    In the philosophy of religion, ‘no-fault unbelief’ represents the view that a person can fail to believe that God exists through no fault of their own. On the other hand, ‘flawed unbelief’ says a person is always culpable ...
  • Nut of gees? Die stand van die geesteswetenskappe in Suid-Afrika 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-12)
    This contribution critically considers the findings and recommendations of the report published in 2011 by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) on the state of the humanities in South Africa. The study concludes ...
  • On escaping the seemingly inescapable : reflections on being in Levinas 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2012)
    Like his one-time teacher, Heidegger, Levinas makes a distinction between Being (Sein) and beings (Seiendes), but prefers to speak of ‘existence’ and the ‘existent’. Again, like Heidegger, Levinas understands existence ...
  • On the possibility of authentic self-expression 
    Tshivhase, Mpho (Routledge, 2015-07)
    This article explores self-expression as an (and not the) articulation of one’s personhood. The point of this article is to enquire whether expression, when articulated on and for an audience, can be deemed authentic. ...
  • On the praxis of writing time : Bernard Stiegler's concept of the orthographic moment as necessary complement to numerical atemporality 
    Nethersole, Reingard (Springer, 2014-12)
    Literary Theory’s latest embrace of the Hard Sciences by way of forgetting the ‘‘orthotheses of memory’’, broadly understood as mnemotechnics, it is argued, erases one of the most important aspects of the literary craft, ...
  • An ontic–ontological theory for ethics of designing social robots : a case of Black African women and humanoids 
    Lamola, M.J. (John) (Springer, 2021-06)
    Given the affective psychological and cognitive dynamics prevalent during human–robot-interlocution, the vulnerability to cultural-political influences of the design aesthetics of a social humanoid robot has far-reaching ...
  • Oor die estetika van kos en die kookkuns 
    Wolff, Ernst (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    The aesthetic nature of food and cooking is a neglected field in philosophical aesthetics. This neglect is due, among others, to the intellectual perspective on art and the anthropological dualism characteristic of modernism. ...
  • Openbare gesprek en wêreldlikheid. Aspekte van die politieke filosofie van Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) 
    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 ...
  • Over het Nihilisme : Nietzsches actualiteit of de onze? 
    Van Tongeren, Paul (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)
    If philosophy claims to be an analysis of the here and now, it should also reflect on the preconditions of a description and diagnosis of the present. One of the challenges presented by such an analysis is the risk of ...
  • The paradox of ambivalent human interest in innocent Asouzu’s complementary ethics 
    Ben, Patrick Effiong (Calabar School of Philosophy, 2022)
    In this paper, I argue that the cause of morally self-defeating acts at the collective level is greed and, at the individual level, an unrestrained impulse for pleasure beyond Innocent Asouzu’s primordial instinct for ...
  • Performatiwiteit en selfonthulling as sleutelbegrippe in Hannah Arendt se etiek van deugdelikheid 
    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 ...
  • Philosophical premises of the Second King Report on Corporate Governance 
    Rossouw, Deon (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2005)
    This article focuses on the philosophical presuppositions of the second King Report on corporate governance for South Africa (hereafter referred to as the King II Report). Especially in the "Introduction and Background" ...
  • The phytoalexin resveratrol ameliorates ochratoxin a toxicity in human embryonic kidney (HEK293) cells 
    Raghubeer, Shanel; Nagiah, Savania; Phulukdaree, Alisa; Chuturgoon, Anil (Wliey, 2015-12)
    Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a nephrotoxic mycotoxin produced by Aspergillus and Penicillium fungi. It contaminates human and animal food products, and chronic exposure is associated with renal fibrosis in humans (Balkan endemic ...
  • Platonic justice for the new millennium? 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Gericke, J.D. (John Daniel) (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    As in past and present times, we will, in the new millennium, hear the cries for justice. Many will probably loose their lives in the name of justice. Maybe we as philosophers will find it beneficial to become citizens ...
  • Poiesis. Oor maaksels en hul wêreld na aanleiding van Versfeld se Pots and Poetry 
    Wolff, Ernst (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2011)
    In this review article the first comprehensive interpretation of Martin Verfeld’s Pots and Poetry is presented. The nature of the philosopher’s discursive practice is presented with reference to his other work. It is ...
  • The ‘political society’ of the governed? Marginalia beyond ‘marginalisation’ 
    Kistner, Ulrike (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)
    Between the sphere of civil society associated with the idea of active, democratic citizenship, and the governance of precariously living populations ‘in most of the world’ (i.e. not simply ‘in the margins’), lies the ...
  • A politics of human rights – the right to rights as universal right to politics? 
    Kistner, Ulrike (SUNMeDIA, 2014)
    Confronted by the charge of depoliticisation levelled at human rights frameworks and interventions, I investigate the possibility of a politics of human rights at the core of democratic politics. In doing so, I am guided ...
  • Predeterminism as a category error : why Aribiah Attoe got it wrong 
    Ben, Patrick Effiong (Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2023-10)
    I aim to establish in this article why Aribiah Attoe, like other determinists before him, got it wrong in arguing for the possibility of predeterminism in a materially evolving universe. I will do this by proving two things: ...
  • Protecting the rights of victims in transitional justice : an interrogation of amnesty 
    Egbai, Uti Ojah; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke (Pretoria University Law Press, 2019)
    The authors argue in this article that some categories of amnesty programmes, such as ‘blanket’ and ‘self-granted amnesties’ that bar the prosecution of perpetrators, have not been very helpful in the protection of the ...