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  • Abhored but necessary : a relational interrogation of Zaman Lafia (peaceful living) and the evil of the death penalty in the traditional Hausa belief system 
    Bambale, Zubairu Lawal (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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • African philosophy of religion from a global perspective : deities, ancestors, relationality and the problem of evil 
    Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke (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 ...
  • African studies through language-based techniques 
    Osuagwu, Ndubuisi; Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke (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 ...
  • The analytic appeal of African philosophy 
    Van Niekerk, Jason (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 ...
  • Anatomie van 'n teologiese ideologie : die Hervormde Kerk se steun aan die apartheid ideologie 
    Wolff, Ernst (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 ...
  • Aristotle in the modern corporation : from codes of ethics to ethical culture 
    Rossouw, Deon (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 ...
  • Aristotle’s harmony with Plato on separable and immortal soul 
    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 ...
  • 'Authentic” queer identities–Koos Prinsloo as a site of contestation 
    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 ...
  • Axel Honneth, reification, and “Nature” 
    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 ...
  • Balancing corporate and social interests : corporate governance theory and practice 
    Rossouw, Deon (Business Ethics Network of Africa, 2008)
    The claim is often made that corporate governance is an attempt to balance corporate interests with individual and societal interests. Lord Adrian Cadbury, who chaired the Cadbury Commission that produced the Cadbury ...
  • Benatar and Metz on cosmic meaning and anti-natalism 
    Lougheed, Kirk (Springer, 2024-04-19)
    David Benatar argues that one important consideration in favour of anti-natalism is based on the fact that all humans lack cosmic meaning; we will never transcend space and time such that we will have an impact on the ...
  • Beyond the ivory tower : the public role of the intellectual today 
    Hofmeyr, Augusta Benda (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2008)
    In this paper, I attempt to contextualise the question regarding the public role of the academic as intellectual in terms of the present, global, neo-liberal "govern-mentality". With the aid of thinkers such as Bourdieu, ...
  • Bodies, theology and Dante’s divine comedy : engaging Dante and Aïda Muluneh 
    Bosch, Rozelle Robson (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
    Placing the words Comedy and Africa in the same sentence, is like laying claim to two expansive and complex entities which do not immediately bear relation to another and yet, there is ample opportunity for engagement. ...
  • Brief remarks regarding the problem of divine npovoia in Maximus the Confessor 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Gericke, J.D. (John Daniel) (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
    The intention of this paper is to discuss the question: How can God actually know the future with the emphasis on Maximus the Confessor. Foreknowledge is generally regarded as one of the typical attributes of God's divine ...
  • Can Afro-communitarianism be useful in combating the challenge of human interaction posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? 
    Chimakonam, Jonathan Okeke; Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna (MDPI, 2022-10-31)
    Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to the normal functioning of societies around ...
  • Can conversational thinking serve as a suitable pedagogical approach for philosophy education in African schools? 
    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 ...
  • The challenge of consciousness with special reference to the exclusive disjunction 
    Antonites, Alex J. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-13)
    The theory of evolution makes sense of the emergence of consciousness. Reduction is not wrong as such, but must not be totalised. The fact that we are star stuff does not preclude the novelty of consciousness. Materialism ...
  • The challenge that war poses to Levinas's thought 
    Hofmeyr, A.B. (Augusta Benda) (Philippine National Philosophical Research Society, 2024-01)
    War is a " state of exception" that not only left an indelible mark on Levinas's life but confronts Levinas with a series of "hard questions" that pose a fundamental challenge to some of the most foundational tenets of his ...
  • Christianity and the state : towards a liberal politics 
    South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities; Langley, J. (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 1999)
    The basic argument of this paper runs as follows: Using a combination of the doctrine of free will as found in Milton's Areopagitica and the Biblical doctrine of grace as a Christian philosophical basis, Christianity is ...