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Browsing Philosophy by Title
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study explores the implication of complexity theory on our understanding of knowledge before proposing a cognitive shift, to move from a rule-directed business ethics to a more responsive and relational approach to ...
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(Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2022-03)In Hausa worldview, Peaceful living (Zaman Lafiya) is conceived as the chief goal of life. Zaman Lafiya is that which determines goodness or badness of actions and practices. Everything, including morality, life, death ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
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(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 ...
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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This thesis argues that the notion of African identity, in its essentialist and anti-essentialist conceptions, does not have the conceptual and theoretical purchase to imagine socio-political and cultural spaces of agency ...
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(Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2021-03)In this essay, we explore what the African Philosophy of Religion would look like from both a mono-disciplinary and comparative perspectives. To do this, a few concepts such as Gods, ancestorhood, relationality, and the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)In this study, I begin to articulate an ecosophy from Africa south of the Sahara by using culturally embedded epistemic resources. An ecosophy is a personal code of ethics or set of norms informed by an eco-philosophy or, ...
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(Calabar School of Philosophy, 2018-01)In this article, we argue that language-based techniques have the capacity to generate original ideas and thus account for progress in any discipline. We claim that language-based techniques used by some African scholars ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-01)Alternating-Time Temporal Logic (ATL), introduced by Alur, Henzinger and Kupferman, is a logic involving coalitions of agents performing actions which cause a state change in a turn-based time system. There have been ...
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(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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(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 ...
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(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2015)Contemporary African philosophy ranges over a number of debates, positions, and theoretical traditions. It can, however, be read as its own critical tradition of hard-won methodological refinements and substantive ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-05)This article explores the support of the "Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika" (NHKA) for the ideology of apartheid. Official documents of this church are examined within the framework of changing accents in Afrikaner ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)In this paper, an attempt will be made to examine the concept ataraxia as it appears in the works of Pyrro of Elis, Sextus Empiricus and other philosophers belonging to the ancient sceptical tradition. This school of thought ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2005)
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2008)After a number of spectacular moral failures in corporations despite them having had codes of ethics and ethics programmes, it has become clear that a mere reliance on codes of ethics and ethics compliance programmes ...
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2000)Aristotle's philosophy of human life
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(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)Aristotle's rejection and reconstruction of the Pythagorean mathematization of things, of the Democritean and Platonic atomism, and the "materialism" of the pre-Aristotelian cosmologies, in general, are mostly based on his ...
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(Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group) and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2017-11)The possibility of a harmony between the psychological doctrine of Aristotle and that of Plato marks a significant issue within the context of the debate surrounding Aristotle’s putative opposition to or harmony with Plato’s ...
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