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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy) by Title
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-02-28)This dissertation addresses the ontological significance of poetry in the thought of Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976). It gives an account of both his earlier and later thinking. The central argument of the dissertation is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-05-18)THIS THESIS IS IN THE EXAMINATION PROCESS Copyright
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The focus of this research is the cultural assumptions underpinning Africa’s strategies of economic development, taking the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as case studies. ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-19)Please read the abstract in the 07abstract part of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-29)Edmund Gettier' s article Is justified true belief knowledge? raised substantial interest in the concept of epistemic justification, especially in Anglo-American epistemology. Discussions of the concept of epistemic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-07-05)This dissertation examines the potential dependence of praxis upon poiesis. The relation between praxis and poiesis, or action and work, is complicated by the conflicting qualities and principles of each. This tension, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-23)Blackwomxn exist in an unbearable social condition. They are more vulnerable to sexual and physical violence, femicide and child marriages. In many nations, they are not equal under the law evinced by differential property ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This dissertation investigates the philosophical question of human freedom. Broadly speaking, ‘freedom’ is one of the most exhaustively treated questions in Western intellectual history, and also one of the most ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-01)This project is a critical evaluation of the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s concept of freedom to African political thought. Freedom is one of the most perplexing aspects of human life, and to determine precisely what freedom ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This dissertation aims to revitalise and revalue a currently disregarded conceptual field of tolerance, and explores the prospect of it - and its respective practice (toleration) - satisfying Nietzsche"s criteria of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04)One of the criticisms raised against using technologies powered with artificial intelligence (AI) is that some of their uses would undermine human dignity. This argument is prevalent in healthcare and military robotics, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-08)As increasingly intelligent and autonomous robots continue to proliferate into every area of modern life, there is no doubt that society has to think deeply about the potential impact, whether negative or positive, that ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-15)This interdisciplinary study enriches academic discourse by merging corporate governance and AI ethics insights, offering a comprehensive perspective on the ethical issues surrounding AI development, deployment, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study is an application of the political theory of Michael Oakeshott aimed at enhancing understanding of the South African state. Oakeshott posits that the modern state is comprised of two separate modes of association, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study aims to determine what is left of the philosophical belief in art’s potential to bring about social emancipation and change early in the 21st century. It does so by critically assessing one of the most elaborate, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This dissertation exposes the status of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-06-19)Contemporary debates in ethics are characterised by opposing views that appear to be irreconcilable. Rational debates seem to be making no headway due to the fact that the incompatibilities of the different views seem to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)A consideration of homophobia could encompass both an investigation into the individual psychology and group factors which play a role in the constitution of homophobia. Yet the link between individual-psychological ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The notion of harmony between the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle is one of the most this modernity, e in Western philosophical exegesis. In nduringly controversial topicscontroversy has been blunted by twin assumptions; ...
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