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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. ...
Are the variable functional capacities of social structures rooted in human nature?
(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 ...
Historical perspectives on Christianity and the future of our societies: philosophical considerations
(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"?
(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
(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 ...
Die geesteswetenskaplike agtergrond van die natuurwetenskappe
(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 ...
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 ...