Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Issue Date

Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Issue Date

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  • The status of non-citizens : equivalence between platonic and contemporary citizenship 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maritz, P.J. (Petrus Jacobus) (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    This paper will discuss approaching the ideal of becoming a good citizen from the perspective of transforming a non-citizen (understood in its modern context) into a good citizen (understood in its Platonic sense ). In ...
  • Principles of justice in Plato's republic 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Domanski, A. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    My subject today is perhaps the most famous and influential of the Platonic dialogues, the Republic. This immortal work, which may fairly be described as the founding charter of Western civilisation, deals with many questions ...
  • The universe is made of stories, not of Atoms 
    Van Marle, Karin (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper I would like to highlight the significa nee of an Aristotelian concept of justice for South African legal and political transformation. I believe that if it is necessary in philosophy, political theory and ...
  • An african challenge to the western logics of excess 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Duffy, I. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The relentless desire of Western states to create true world citizenship is currently the focus of a number of major studies in economics, politics, information sciences as well as philosophy. The challenge of the global ...
  • Greek thought in arab ethics: Miskawayh's theory of justice 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Mohamed, Y. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Miskawayh (d. 1030) was the first Arab philosopher to have written a substantial work on ethics, The Refinement of Character, which had a great impact on the development of Islamic philosophical ethics after him. In this ...
  • Citizenship, virtue and the "theory-praxis" problem: a platonic approach 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Lambrellis, D.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    It would appear that the familiar "theory-praxis" problem may be set out in a dramatic way as follows: Should a theory be radically reevaluated or even renounced when it does not lead to its implementation in practice, ...
  • The relationship between ethics (theory) and morality (practice) 
    Rauche, G.A.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    If a study is made of ethics in Western thought, a structure in moral theories as they have been constituted throughout the centuries in terms of changing, variabie conditions of life, manis contingent life-experience, the ...
  • Social justice and genetic engineering : what Plato might have said 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Botha, C. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper, I explore the concepts of self-realisation, health and justice as they specifically pertain to human genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is a fledgling, but rapidly developing set of technologies, whose ...
  • Is democracy the best expression of justice, virtues and citizenship? 
    Antonites, Alex J.; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Aristotle's concept of rationality which involves a virtuous life stands in continuity with contemporary democratic states. This rational virtue as wisdom obtains an enlarged interpretation in contemporary democracies. ...
  • Alteration and identity : Heraclitus, the earlier presocratics, and contemporary science 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Maniatis, Y.N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this essay lexamine the theory of alteration and identity of the cosmos and the Being in the Presocratics, from Thales to Parmenides. We try to show that it was really Heraclitus, the first Presocratic philosopher, who ...
  • The stoic cosmopolis: a vision of justice and virtue in a multicultural society 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Tsolis, T.L. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The philosophical movements which evolved under circumstances of interaction of socio-political and cultural elements during late Hellenistic and early Roman times are characterised by a strong interest in social problems, ...
  • The virtue of education 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Higgs, P. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The ethical paradox of the postmodern condition is that it restores to agents the fullness of moral choice and responsibility, while simultaneously depriving them of the comfort of the universal guidance that modern ...
  • The citizenship of the philosopher 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Boudouris, Sophia K. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In this paper I will attempt to answer the question: To which polis can the philosopher rightly claim citizenship? In order to answer this question, I must clarify some specific issues, such as: 1) From an archeological ...
  • 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's views on crime and punishment 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Ladikos, Anastasios (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Plato has adopted and adapted, abandoned or expanded and generally redetermined (or reascertained) and reshaped a vast range of criminological ideas and practices in such a way as to combine intense conservatism with radical ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, humanity and globalisation 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Marshall, A.H. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Two books feature prominently in this article. The first is Karl Popper's Open Society and lts Enemies: The Spell of Plato written about 56 years ago during World War 11. The second is Plato's Republic written about 2,380 ...
  • The just republic and the idea of citizenship in the global communication 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Boudouris, Konstantine (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Let's assume that a Martian (human being) comes down to Earth and wishes to remain here for the rest of his life. He would be confronted with the choice of society in which he would live ever after. After describing to him ...
  • 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 ...