Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Type "Article"

Browsing Phronimon Volume 2 Number 1 (2000) by Type "Article"

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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Aristotle's philosophy of human life 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Sotshangane, N. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    Aristotle's philosophy of human life
  • 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 ...
  • 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 doric column: a representation of the norm of virtue 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Mare, Estelle Alma (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    The generic element of the Doric column in temple construction can be related to the intellectual clarity of Greek architecture, but one may argue that it caused an aggravating inflexibility in using its formal systems ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • Justice as a cause of the 1821 Greek Revolution 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Papadopoulos, V. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    What we shall be looking at is how justice was seen, by the Ottomans, by the monarchs of Europe, and by the Greeks. What the Ottomans understood by justice was preserving the power they had over their enslaved peoples; ...
  • Justice as virtue and harmony: a socratic account 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Evangeliou, Christos (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)
    In what follows I would like to try to draw your attention to certain passages from Plato and Xenophon which are indicative, I believe, of the Socratic way of philosophising as it relates to his novel conception of justice ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...