Browsing Research Output by Subject "Plato"
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English Academy Percy Baneshik memorial lecture: education and the form of the humanities: an ‘institutional re-membering’.
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)South African education at all levels is currently recovering from a bad bout of ‘governance as steering’. To restore public confidence the South African academy needs consciously to embrace in its practice the intrinsic ... -
Plato's heritage to Western philosophy, European intellectual tradition and some special sciences
(SA Society for Greek Philosophy and Humanities; UNISA, 2016)Although the statement of Whitehead, asserting that European philosophy may be seen as footnotes to Plato, is exaggerated, it does provide us with a challenge to explain the element of truth in it. This article investigates ... -
Voltaire: natural scientific light against Christian criminality methodologies of targeting
(AOSIS/KOERS Society of South Africa, 2015)Western thought, since the Renaissance, shows a repeated development of methods aimed at attacking Christianity, from Machiavelli’s Classicist militarism up to William James’ ‘empty’ Pragmatism. Methods have aims, and aims ...