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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 ...
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. ...
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
(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 ...
Besinning oor staat en samelewing
(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 ...
Between postmodernism, positivism and (new) atheism
(KOERS Society of South Africa, 2015)
The Renaissance introduced the autonomy of being human which in turn resulted in promoting
the position of human understanding as the formal law-giver of nature. Twentieth century
philosophy of science acknowledged the ...
Intelligent Design - a descendant of vitalism? (Modern biology wrestling with God's Law-Order)
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)
Can a historical perspective on the ID (Intelligent Design) movement
avoid noticing its links with the long-standing legacy of vitalism within
philosophy and biology? This question will be investigated below by taking
into ...