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  • Muthos, logos, nous: in pursuit of the ultimate in human thought 
    De Beer, C.S. (Fanie); South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2006)
  • The necessity of the feminine virtues in the formation of the citizen 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Marangianou, E. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The present paper aims to accentuate the necessity of feminine virtues in the formation of citizens, and the significanee they acquire for a person wishing to participate in public affairs in contemporary society. In so ...
  • Nietzsche and Arendt in Casterbridge: on the burden of history 
    Mabille, Louise; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    The article raises the question whether postmodern attempts to re-write history does not, despite its best efforts, fall back into the homogeneity of metanarrative. By doing this, Nietzsche's critique of monumental ...
  • Nietzsche and evolutionary theory 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Botha, Catherine Frances (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Poststructuralist thinkers tend to emphasise Nietzsche's critical relationship to science, as a result of their scepticism towards scientific discourse in general. Their interpretation of Nietzsche in this regard is ...
  • Nietzsche on tragedy and Socrates 
    Evangeliou, Christos; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2003)
    Socrates appears to have been the perpetual target of Nietzsche's manic critique. His accusation of Socrates as ultimately responsible for the untimely death of Greek tragedy acquires both comic aspects and tragic proportions, ...
  • Nietzsche se beskouings oor die deugde van matigheid en generositeit 
    Schoeman, Marinus J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    The concepts of temperance and magnanimity (generosity) play a central role in Nietzsche's ethic, which is basically an ethic of virtue. In his own unique way, and in accordance with his extra-moral view of life, ...
  • Nietzsche's revaluation of the cardinal virtues: the case of Sophrosyne 
    Van Tongeren, Paul; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    Peter Geach is reported to have said that temperance is far from being an interesting subject, but "rather a humdrum common sense matter". I hope to show that his opinion proves that he did not know the early history of ...
  • Nietzsche, violence and justice : towards a rehabilitation of dike 
    Mabille, Louise; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Nietzsche: history as memento vivere 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Roodt, V. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    No abstract available.
  • One more time : views on Aristotle's philosophy and intercultural philosophy 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Van der Westhuizen, Jacob (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • The ontological relation of value, virtue and justice 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Athansopoulos, C (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    What we tried to do in this presentation is to chart the ontological relation of the three most important concepts of value, virtue and justice. We found that in Aristotle the three are intimately, ontologically and ...
  • The operation of platonic justice in the South African constitution 
    Domanski, A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    Justice is one of the four Platonic or cardinal virtues. In his dialogues the Republic and the Laws, Plato presents a concept of justice far broader than the predominantly legalistic notions which we have received from ...
  • An optimistic Nietzsche : from laying blame to saying yes 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Du Plessis, Louis (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    The writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche speak in countless voices about innumerable questions of life. In this paper a very tentative perspective is provided on a few phenomena related to human wisdom. After ...
  • The paradox of morality in Nietzsche 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maniatis, Y.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    In this essay I would like to investigate the phenomenon of the paradox that one finds when is dealing with the thought of Nietzsche on morality. Such a penetrating research into the realm of morality presupposes a tolerant ...
  • The periclean notions of 'justice, excellence and citizenship' 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Philippoussis, John (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The purpose of this paper is, precisely, to exude, through a textual exegetical and hermeneutical analysis, the Periclean notions of justice, excellence and citizenship, especially in their differentiation and opposition ...
  • Philosophike Martyria. Aristotle, Gadamer and the relevance of practical-ethical knowledge in a multicultural society 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Duvenage, Pieter (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Of what relevance is practical-ethical knowledge (phronesis) in a multicultural or plural society? This question will be addressed, in the first place, by revisiting the Aristotelian concept of phronesis. What is important ...
  • Plato and Vedanta 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Ram, Indranie (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Plato on justice as virtue - a safeguard against a static metaphysics of being and a postmodern meaning-relativism? 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Strauss, D.F.M. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Die kontemporêre wetenskaplike klimaat vertoon die beeld van toenemende disintegrasie - 'n fragmentasie wat sekerlik nie los te maak is van die modernisme/postmodernisme debat nie. Alhoewel Plato se soeke na die vermeende ...
  • Plato's ethical values what lessons for today? 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Domanski, A. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
  • Plato's views on capital punishment 
    Ladikos, Anastasios; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)