Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "Strauss, Danie"
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Are the variable functional capacities of social structures rooted in human nature?
Strauss, Danie (Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2016)Reflections on "human nature" are found throughout the Western intellectual legacy. From Greek antiquity onwards human nature has been related to an understanding of human society. The effect was that human nature acquired ... -
Besinning oor staat en samelewing
Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)In classical antiquity and during the medieval era political life was organized in kingdoms or empires in which the ruler (monarch or emperor) was not yet appreciated as occupying a public-legal office. But throughout the ... -
Die aard en plek van die geheel-dele relasie - gesien vanuit 'n algemeen-wysgerige sowel as 'n vakfilosofiese perspektief = The nature and place of the whole-parts relation both from a general philosophical perspective and from that of the philosophy of the special sciences
Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)his article focuses on the broader philosophical and special scientific context within which an account is given of the nature and place of the whole-parts relation within scholarly disciplines (the natural sciences and ... -
Die geesteswetenskaplike agtergrond van die natuurwetenskappe
Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)The cradle of our Western intellectual legacy is found in ancient Greece where philosophy witnessed the slow process of differentiation through which the various social sciences started to come into their own. Their ... -
Function laws and type laws-a significant link between philosophy and the special sciences
Strauss, Danie (Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)The difference between function concepts and entity concepts is found in all the special sciences. Philosophy initially, in ancient Greece and during the Middle Ages, gave primacy to the substance concept. Since the ... -
Historical and systematic considerations regarding the four most basic philosophical assertions
Strauss, Danie (Ponte Editore, 2017)One of the hall-marks of early Greek philosophy is that it commences with an awareness of certain basic aspects of reality. Reflecting on these aspects gave rise to recurrent issues, such as the problem of unity and ... -
Historical perspectives on Christianity and the future of our societies: philosophical considerations
Strauss, Danie (Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2016)Organizing a conference on "Christianity and the Future of our Societies" jointly sponsored by "The Association of Reformational Philosophy" (ARP) and "The Evangelical Theological Faculty" (ETF - Leuven), certainly invites ... -
How critical is "critical thinking"?
Strauss, Danie (Taylor & Francis, 2016)Before criticism is justified, an account of the applicable criteria should be given. This task concerns first of all the well-known logical principles of identity, contradiction and the excluded middle. They connect ... -
Information and communication
Strauss, Danie (Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2016)After the Enlightenment of the 18th century concern for the lonesome individual and the need for communication gave birth to the academic disciplines of psychology and communication science. Positivism and the linguistic ... -
Plato's heritage to Western philosophy, European intellectual tradition and some special sciences
Strauss, Danie (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 ... -
Primitive terms and the limits of conceptual understanding
Strauss, Danie (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2013)Ignoring primitive terms leads to an infinite regress. The alternative is to account for an intuitive understanding (immediate insight) into the meaning of such terms. The current investigation proceeds on the basis of an ... -
The alleged 'essentialism' of Dooyeweerd
Strauss, Danie (Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)Ed Echeverria argues that Jonathan Chaplin attempts to avoid social constructivism by grounding the normativity (structural-typical invariance) of societal entities in the invariant "possibilities or potentials given with ... -
The indispensable role of systematic philosophical reflection in scholarship
Strauss, Danie (University of South Africa (UNISA), 2017)Sometimes systematic theoretical thinking is identified with abstract (formal) schemes. This opposition is also found in Malan and Goosen's dismissal of Dooyeweerdian reformational thinking. This article aims at making a ... -
The tension between (methodological) individualism and holism
Strauss, Danie (Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2016)Schumpeter, a student of Max Weber, introduced the phrase methodological individualism in 1908. For Weber concepts such as 'state', 'club' and 'feudalism' are reducible to 'understandable' actions of individual human beings. ... -
Wysgerige onderskeidinge relevant vir 'n besinning oor staat en samelewing met besondere verwysing na Koos Malan se politokrasie
Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)Recently reflections on state and society were enriched by the contributions of various authors in Afrikaans. Of particular interest in this regard is a work written by Koos Malan (professor in Constitutional Law). It ...