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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy) by Type "Thesis"
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Nyamudo, Rudolph
(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-30)
The key question in this philosophical research is, “What does Ubuntu entail for the way an African state such as South Africa as well as other major institutions, media houses, banks, etc., should respond to foreigners ...
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Coombs, Wehan Murray
(University of Pretoria, 2022)
Based primarily on Aristotle’s testimony of the existence of ‘unwritten doctrines’ of Plato, alongside Plato’s comments on the issue in the Seventh Epistle and the critique of writing in the Phaedrus, the question of Plato’s ...
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Michael, Paul Kehinde
(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-28)
This thesis investigates how coloniality of youth, especially in contemporary Africa, implicates and is implicated by the slavery-migration nexus. While coloniality of youth is used to analyze a form of Euro-North American ...
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Carstens, Jana Alvara
(University of Pretoria, 2019-05)
In this work I make sense of complacency through an action theoretical perspective based on the action theories of Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens. Even though complacency is a prevalent phenomenon, there is hardly any ...
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Benton, Paige
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
I claim that the revisions John Rawls made to his theory of justice—as seen in his political conception of justice as fairness in the revised edition of Political Liberalism and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement—result ...
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Masitera, Erasmus
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The focus of this research is to explore and propose philosophical ideas for a just resolution to the Zimbabwean land redistribution debacle. The work will evaluate land redistribution and expropriations in terms of ...
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Warby, Paul
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Mind uploading is a fascinating possibility that asks us to imagine a person being instantiated in a substrate other than their biological body, such as a person continuing in a robot/computer. The current thesis takes a ...
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Maree, David J.F.
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
The early work of Bhaskar is critically evaluated as a possible philosophy of science
for psychology. His Critical Realism reacts against both positivism in natural science
and hermeneutics in psychosocial science. On the ...
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Pienaar, Jacobus Johannes
(University of Pretoria, 1980)
In die 20ste eeuse, gemanipuleerde wereld het die mens deur gebruikmaking
van die berekende denke alles, selfs God, tot die beplanbare en berekenbare
gedegradeer, danksy die hulp van die moederwetenskap, naamlik
die ...
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Oguamanam, Eugene Ezenwa
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
I argue in this thesis that Aristotle’s hylomorphic metaphysics, supported by his theory of causality and his theory of the soul (De Anima), holds the key to solving the problem of mental causation in contemporary philosophy ...
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Sesiro, Doreen
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Transhumanism is the view that human evolution should be actively enhanced by the human race through science and technology. Bio-technological enhancements are interventions designed to transform individual human capabilities ...
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Ku, Hay Lin Helen
(University of Pretoria, 2009-06-02)
The ancient Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes, and the philosophy of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) both assert that the universe exists in a state of change. The I Ching, originally a book of ...
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Marais, Sarel
(University of Pretoria, 2023-05)
This thesis analyses the conceptual architecture in Michel Foucault’s work on Productive Power. I identify five mobile terms in Foucault’s work, which move between different power-knowledge configurations. The chosen mobile ...
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West, Andrew Geoffrey
(University of Pretoria, 2011-06-18)
This thesis investigates how the different aspects and claims associated with moral relativism can be applied to the issue of corporate governance convergence. The question of how corporate governance models may be converging ...
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Van Zyl, Hendrik Johann
(University of Pretoria, 1952)
Geen abstrak
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Mabille, Martina Louise
(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-17)
No abstract available.
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Mangadza, Clarton Fambisai
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
In this thesis I offer a novel alternative response to Frank Jackson’s (1982, 1986) knowledge argument in support of non-reductive physicalism (NRP). The knowledge argument is framed as an attack on reductive physicalism ...
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Ntibagirirwa, Symphorien
(University of Pretoria, 2012-05-18)
THIS THESIS IS IN THE EXAMINATION PROCESS Copyright
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Ntibagirirwa, Symphorien
(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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Gama, Lindokuhle Bagezile
(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 ...