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Ubuntu and modernity in Africa: a critical examination of Ubuntu and its challenges in modern philosophical discourses.
(2020)The debate between Bernard Matolino and Wenceslaus Kwindingwi’s ‘The end of ubuntu’ and Thaddeus Metz’s ‘Just the beginning for ubuntu [..]’ has been a major force to be reckoned with and a serious bone of ... -
Evo-existentialism: facing death.
(2021)Mortality awareness is a uniquely human phenomenon that the existentialists believed science was unable to explain. However, excluding the topic from scientific enquiry doesn’t make as much sense as it previously did. ... -
Towards a theory of moral status of the dead and its contribution to medical research and learning: the case of unclaimed cadavers.
(2021)Most, if not all, human cultures consider dead human bodies to be deserving of moral respect. The same moral attitude is generally absent regarding dead animal bodies. In a trade-off situation involving the stark choice ... -
Rethinking universalism and particularism in African philosophy: towards an eclectic approach.
(2019)The study focuses on the dispute between the universalists and particularists in the characterization of the nature of African philosophy. In African philosophy the debate is formulated as a dichotomy between the universalists ... -
Inconsistencies in the adjudication of rights: an examination of three South African Constitutional Court decisions.
(2020)The Republic of South Africa has a constitution that is often lauded as among the best in the world. This can be attributed, at least partly, to the fact that at the heart of it lies transformative constitutionalism, which ... -
Epistemology in African Philosophy: A critique of African concepts of knowledge.
(2019)The question of the existence of African epistemology cannot be addressed without the acknowledgement and acceptance of African philosophy. This is of paramount importance as African epistemology originates from the discourse ... -
Masculinity and men’s reproductive health rights in the MCSA: a case of the Amadodana.
(2019)Masculinity and men’s sexual reproductive health rights have been a critical issue worldwide and particularly in Africa, especially in recent years. The health status of people is mostly affected because of their gender ... -
Early generation selection of bread wheat (triticum aestivum L.) genotypes for drought tolerance.
(2018)Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the third most important cereal crop after rice and maize globally. Dryland wheat production in South Africa is challenged by recurrent drought leading to low profitability for farmers. ... -
Rethinking communitarianism and personhood: a critical review of the metaphysical and moral commitments.
(2017)exists the notion in African philosophy that to be regarded as a person, an individual needs to be morally excellent, and the way to secure this moral excellence is through maintaining good relations with others, meaning ... -
The effects of citizen journalism on the ethics of journalism : the case of the Marikana Massacre and the #FeesMustFall movement.
(2019)Citizen journalism has for many years, been conceived as a new phenomenon of the twenty-first century, whereas, it has been around long before this period. Due to the creation of the internet and the readiness and accessibility ... -
An inquiry into the nature of group agency and individual agency : a study of rational autonomy.
(2017)Human agency entails being able to rationalize over decisions, passing judgements and executing actions based on these deliberations. All these rationalizations and executions flow from a principle of rational autonomy. ... -
Success factors for business rescue in South Africa
(2016)In 2011 a new Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008 (RSA, 2008), was implemented in South Africa. A feature of this Act was the introduction of business rescue legislation. Although this legislation was implemented in May 2011, ... -
How should biblically-based homophobic/hate speech be treated in South Africa, legally and socially?
(2019)In a country like South Africa where 80% of the population is Christian, many of them quite conservative, and where homophobia is common, it seems likely (given the common biblically-based belief that homosexuality is a ... -
Modal realism and acquaintance.
(2016)All propositions intelligible to us, whether or not they primarily concern things only known to us by description, are composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted, for a constituent with which we are not ... -
The influence of Christian values in post-1996 South Africa : a philosophical perspective.
(2017)One of the many attractions of South Africa post-1996 is its apparent ability to allow the coexistence of both religious and non-religious values in society. Among the many religions in South Africa, Christianity has always ... -
Against a priori knowledge of non-trivial truths.
(2014)This is a thesis in support of the conceptual yoking of analytic truth to a priori knowledge. My approach is a semantic one; the primary subject matter throughout the thesis is linguistic objects, such as propositions or ...
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