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Primitive terms and the limits of conceptual understanding
(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 ...
Soul and body: transcending the dialectical intellectual legacy of the West with an integral biblical view?
(AOSIS, 2014)
Greek philosophy informed the Medieval dualistic understanding of ‘body’ and ‘soul’, which continued to influence modern Humanism and Christian views during and after the Middle Ages. These fluctuating conceptions express ...
Dooyeweerd's philosophy entails no support for Apartheid whatsoever
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)
In an article on Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique, Rèné Eloff argues that E.A. Venter and H.J. Strauss drew upon the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd to justify separate development and that ...
Reifying things or relations: substantialism versus functionalism
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2013)
Our awareness of a diversity of things as well as a multiplicity of relationships took shape in the history of philosophy and the various academic disciplines, embodied in a constant struggle between allegedly independent ...
Differensiasie: die basis van samelewingsvryhede
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2015)
Hierdie artikel verg enersyds begripsonderskeidinge en andersyds 'n oorsigtelike beeld van ongedifferensieerde en gedifferensieerde samelewings. Waar ding-begrippe in die Grieks-Middeleeuse intellektuele erfenis prominent ...
Die nuwe bedreiging van samelewingsvryhede: ’n Terugkeer tot Christen-vervolging?
(Suid-afrikaanse Akad vir Wetenskap En Kuns, Sekretaris, 2015)
Ten spyte van die ruimte wat deur verskillende Aktes van Menseregte vir persoonlike (en
kollektiewe) vryhede geskep is, insluitende persoonlike akademiese vryheid en geloofsvryheid,
het daar gedurende die afgelope paar ...
The historical roots of systematic distinctions
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)
My first explicit acquaintance with philosophy as a scholarly discipline followed from a question to my father about the slogan of the French Revolution - liberty, equality and fraternity. His answer and the books he advised ...
The tension between (methodological) individualism and holism
(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
(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 ...
Function laws and type laws-a significant link between philosophy and the special sciences
(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 ...