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Browsing Philosophy by Type "Postprint Article"
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Coombs, W.M. (Wehan Murray)
(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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Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko)
(Routledge, 2019)
Koos Prinsloo’s short story, “Promise you’ll tell no-one”, highlights three aspects that continue to plague Afrikaner identity. The first of these are the phallus, understood here as the symbol of patriarchal power which ...
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Angella, Marco
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2019)
I begin by briefly reconstructing Honneth’s concept of reification. His paradigm gives the reification of the non-human environment a marginal position in comparison to the reification of human beings, thereby detracting ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna
(Oxford University Press, 2024-04)
This article investigates whether Conversational Thinking can suitably serve as a pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African schools (primary and secondary levels). We argue that there is a need to introduce ...
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Kistner, Ulrike
(Springer, 2015-02)
The legal doctrine of ‘common purpose’ in South African criminal
law considers all parties liable who have been in implicit or explicit agreement
to commit an unlawful act, and associated with each other for that purpose, ...
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Lougheed, Kirk
(Springer, 2023-04)
In The Axiological Status of Theism and Other Worldviews (2020), I defend the Complete Understanding Argument for anti-theism, which says that God’s existence makes the world worse with respect to our ability to understand ...
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Wardle, Darryl
(Taylor & Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2016-08)
Philosophical existentialism has sought to understand the nature of human existence
and the possible meaning(s) that might be made thereof. For the noteworthy
existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, the meaning of life cannot ...
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Metz, Thaddeus
(Springer, 2022-03)
No abstract available.
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Lougheed, Kirk
(Akademos Press, 2022-03)
There have been recent calls to expand contemporary analytic philosophy of religion beyond the oft implicitly assumed Christian tradition. Instead of exploring moral reasons to expand the discipline, I argue that there are ...
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Wolff, Ernst
(Taylor & Francis and NISC (Pty) Ltd, 2016-11)
This article explores current issues in South African philosophy curriculum design. Four questions are considered, each followed by a supplementary note. Firstly, the place of philosophy from other traditions, particularly ...
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Wolff, Ernst
(Sage, 2006-07)
This article investigates the importance of the evolution of Adorno's interpretation of Husserl for the formation of his own philosophy. The weakness of Husserl's notion of immediate data is revealed within the light of ...
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Afolabi, Abiodun Paul; Etieyibo, Edwin
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
A large and important part of social relations is gender relations between men and women. Over time, the manifestation of such relations has often been one of violence, particularly violence against women. Different ...
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Ofuasia, Emmanuel
(Taylor and Francis, 2025)
Hitherto, the African intellect had been decimated by notable European scholars such as David Hume, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Hegel, Lucien Levy-Bruhl to name a few. The common denominator among these male scholars is that ...
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Friedman, Cindy
(Springer, 2020-12)
This paper contributes to the debate in the ethics of social robots on how or whether to treat social robots morally by way of considering a novel perspective on the moral relations between human interactants and social ...
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Sanni, John Sodiq; Carman, Mary; Etieyibo, Edwin
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2022)
More recent discussions in African philosophy have focused on substantive issues than the largely meta-philosophical discussions that African philosophers engaged in between the 1960s and 1990s. This makes this special ...
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Dasaolu, Babajide Olugbenga; Ofuasia, Emmanuel; Oladipupo, Sunday Layi
(Routledge, 2023)
Several criteria for what constitutes African philosophy have been offered by different African and non-African scholars. For Jonathan Chimakonam (Ezumezu: A System of Logic for African Philosophy and Studies. Cham: ...
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Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Egbai, Uti O.
(Routledge, 2024)
In this paper, we will investigate whether or not the name ‘Africa’ can be seen as a slur. Since the name was given by European exploiters, slavers and colonists, it raises the question of whether such a name should continue ...
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Metz, Thaddeus
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2025-04)
No abstract available.
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Kumalo, S.H. (Siseko)
(Unisa Press, 2020-08)
South African history is such that Blackness/Indigeneity were excluded from institutions of knowledge production. Contemporarily, the traditional University is defined as an institution predicated on the abjection of ...
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Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda)
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
This contribution seeks to understand the pervasive phenomenon of work compulsion among knowledge workers in our present network society. Knowledge workers not only have to work all the time from anywhere, but they also ...