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  • Plato, Nietzsche and sublimation 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Berges, S. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In this paper I aim to refute the claim that Plato and Nietzsche are at opposite poles regarding the treatment of the non-rational elements of the soul, and argue that, instead, they share a complex and psychologically ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The platonic pair “limit – infinitude” according to the neo-platonist Damascius 
    Terezis, C.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    Damascius maintains that according to the Platonic text the cause and principle of Intelligence is the Limit, whereas that of Pleasure is Infinitude. By using the logical principle of analogy, he points out that any ...
  • Platonic temperance : the heart of a healthy constitution 
    Domanski, A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Plato's notion of temperance, as elaborated in his dialogues the Republic and the Laws, is far removed from conventional modern thinking on the subject. Platonic temperance is as much a public as a private virtue. lts ...
  • Play in psychotherapy with HIV/AIDS-affected children and families 
    Erasmus, Elrika (University of Pretoria, 2006-12-07)
    Can psychotherapeutic interventions be introduced in a playful manner to families and children affected by HIV / AIDS? Working from an ecosystemic worldview, this dissertation undertakes an investigation into the possibilities ...
  • A play technique programme for autistic children in middle childhood 
    Davies, Catherine Elizabeth (University of Pretoria, 2008-08-13)
    In this study an attempt was firstly made to theoretically conceptualize autism as a phenomenon in Middle Childhood and the impact thereof on the family, as well as play techniques in the context of autism. The characteristics, ...
  • Playing ball : the relationship between the state and FIFA in South Africa 2010 
    Likaku, Yankho (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    This qualitative study is based on literature from before, during, and after South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup (2005 – 2014). The objective is: (1) to ...
  • Playing by the rules : towards a gameplay framework of creativity in design 
    Venter, Morné Pierre (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    Creativity plays an important part in design and problem-solving. While the role of play has enjoyed a great deal of attention in the study of both creativity and problem-solving alike, the overlap between games and the ...
  • Playing sport in the stormy sea of street life 
    Human, Lourens H.; Thomas, Mary (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2008-06)
    Currently, there are many street children in South Africa (SA). They have been robbed from the safe harbour of family life and on a daily basis experience the stormy sea of street life. Society has an obligation to intervene ...
  • Playing the waiting game : the changing nature of companionate marriage at a small Pentecostal charismatic church in Pretoria, South Africa 
    Pieterse, Jimmy (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2021)
    This article focuses on the ways in which a group of mostly gay, Afrikaans-speaking Christians interpret, appropriate, and deploy the institution of marriage at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church in Pretoria. In so ...
  • Playing with the subject : writing in The Pillow Book and in In the Penal Colony 
    Viljoen, Jeanne-Marie (University of Pretoria, 2010-08-13)
    This study explores the nature of writing and the sorts of presence that writing gives us access to. This understanding of writing includes not only all speaking and all writing in the narrow sense of marks on a page, but ...
  • Plethon's conception of justice and law 
    Bargeliotes, L.C.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The brief analysis and presentation of Plethon's conception of justice and law, including his philosophy of man as an individual as well as social and political being, shows clearly enough his hierarchical conception of ...
  • Plotinus as a kind of deep ecologist? 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Blakeley, D.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    This paper examines the extent to which the cosmology presented in the Enneads can support an environmental philosophy that would be of contemporary interest. Four major features of the deep ecology position of Arne Naess ...
  • Plotinus' defense of the Platonic cosmos and its demiurge 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Evangeliou, Christos (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)
    In the histories of Philosophy, Plotinus is usually portrayed as an otherworldly philosopher whose ideal was "a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, so much so that "he seemed ashamed of being in the body." Yet, ...
  • PM Lebopa : Papetso ya Dikanegelotseka tsa Lebopa (Sepedi) 
    Magapa, Ntepele Isaac (University of Pretoria, 2013-01-10)
    In this dissertation Lebopa' s two short stories entitled Ntlo ya monna yo mongwe and Bomahlwabadibona are compared with each other. Groenewald is the first person to have pointed out the importance of these two detective ...
  • The poet as preacher : St. Ephrem the Syrian's hymn De Virginitate XXXI as a coherent, aesthetic, and persuasive poetic discourse 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    This article consists of a translation and poetic analysis of Ephrem the Syrian's teaching song On Virginity 31. The Syriac text and an English translation are provided and short notes are given on the structure of the ...
  • Poetic and therapeutic encounters in an adolescent drama group 
    Butler, Elmien; Bakker, Therese Maria (Terri); Viljoen, Gerhard (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2013-03)
    This article reports on a research project that explored the use of drama and movement in facilitating the transformation of narratives of adolescents. Narrative therapy and social constructionism were combined with concepts ...
  • Poetic and therapeutic encounters with adolescents 
    Butler, Elmien (University of Pretoria, 2005)
    This study explores whether it is useful to implement drama and movement as therapeutic constructs to create poetic moments and transformation when working with the narratives of adolescents. Literature clearly indicates ...
  • The poetic face of rhetoric : Ephrem's polemics against the Jews and heretics in Contra Haereses XXV 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus (Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 1991)
    The hymn Contra Haereses XXV by Ephrem is translated into English and the use of poetic devices such as metaphor, antithesis, apostrophe, invocatio, hyperbole and acoustic techniques to enhance the argumentative quality ...