Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Philosophy) by Advisor "Gouws, Andries Stefanus."

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A critical examination of Richard Rorty's liberal lexicon.

Clare, Julia. (2010)

This dissertation examines Richard Rorty's liberalism, especially as articulated in Contingency, irony, and solidarity, from a perspective which is sympathetic to the broad features of his pragmatism. I argue that Rorty's ...
Freud and the legacy of Greece.

Kool, Sharon Beth. (2008)

This thesis traces Freud's debt to classical Greece and argues that the development of his theory should not be considered apart from its roots in this legacy. The psychoanalytic project sheltered under the umbrella of ...
Ideology, virtue and well-being : a critical examination of Francis Fukuyama's notion of liberal democracy.

Wuriga, Rabson. (2003)

This thesis is a critical examination of Fukuyama's "end of history" version of liberalism, in which he announces the triumphant emergence of liberal democracy as a universal form of governance. The thesis ...