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  • 'n Filosofiese verantwoording van mistiek (Afrikaans) 
    Minnaar, Cornelius Lukas Jacobus (University of Pretoria, 2007-01-10)
    AFRIKAANS: Sover ons kennis strek stam die woord mistiek uit die Griekse misteriekultusse en is in die vyftiende eeu deur Jean de Gerson gedefinieer as ervaarbare kennis van God deur die omhelsing van verenigende liefde. ...
  • 'n volkekundige studie van die ekonomiese lewe en posisie van die Bakgatla BagaMosetlha 
    Van Zyl, Hendrik Johann (University of Pretoria, 1952)
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  • The necessary (non-arbitrary) conditions making possible the arbitrariness of the lingual sign 
    Strauss, Danie (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
    Paper presented during the Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 16 - 18 January 2008. Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. ABSTRACT: Most modern linguists emphasize ...
  • 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 ...
  • Neoliberal governmentality, knowledge work, and thumos 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Editura ASE, 2021-11-20)
    Research has shown that the knowledge worker, the decisive driver of the knowledge economy, works increasingly longer hours. In fact, it would appear that instead of working to live, they live to work. There appears to be ...
  • New ethics of technology. A discourse in Germany in the 1990s 
    Gruner, Stefan (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
    Paper presented during the Annual Conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 16 - 18 January 2008. Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. ABSTRACT: The mid-1990s in Germany had ...
  • 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, Democracy and Transcendence 
    Van Tongeren, Paul (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
    Socialism, utilitarianism and democracy are, according to Nietzsche, secularised versions of Christianity. They have continued the monomaniac one-sidedness of the Christian idea of what a human being is and should be, and ...
  • 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.
  • Nietzsche’s tragic justice and the rehabilitation of Diké 
    Mabille, Martina Louise (University of Pretoria, 2009-11-17)
    No abstract available.
  • Nihilisme en moraal 
    Van Tongeren, Paul (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2013-12)
    The term "nihilism" is often used as an invective to blame a person or a way of thinking. If used in that way there would be a simple opposition between "nihilism and morality". That opposition could maybe point to a ...
  • No-fault unbelief defended : a reply to Roberto Di Ceglie 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Springer, 2021)
    In the philosophy of religion, ‘no-fault unbelief’ represents the view that a person can fail to believe that God exists through no fault of their own. On the other hand, ‘flawed unbelief’ says a person is always culpable ...
  • Noto-ya-masogana : padi va boitshwaro 
    Lekganyane, Enniah Matemane (University of Pretoria, 2012-10-25)
    In this dissertation, Noto-ya Masogana is described as a moral story. The moral story can be distinguished from the didactic story and from the picaresque. The picaresque deals with a picaro who is the only main character. ...
  • A Novel Reply to the Knowledge Argument : Wiredu's view of Quasi-Physicalism as a positive Reply to Jackson 
    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 ...
  • Nut of gees? Die stand van die geesteswetenskappe in Suid-Afrika 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2012-12)
    This contribution critically considers the findings and recommendations of the report published in 2011 by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) on the state of the humanities in South Africa. The study concludes ...