Browsing by Subject "Plato"
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Christians, Gnostics and Platonists : an overview of the ethos of late antiquity
(North-West University, 2010)Christians, Gnostics, and Platonists attempts to characterize the ethos of late antiquity (100–500 CE) as one that despised matter and the body. It operates within the assumption that there are four criteria which establish ... -
English Academy Percy Baneshik memorial lecture: education and the form of the humanities: an ‘institutional re-membering’.
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)South African education at all levels is currently recovering from a bad bout of ‘governance as steering’. To restore public confidence the South African academy needs consciously to embrace in its practice the intrinsic ... -
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 ... -
Transcending desire : the shaping of Christian thought by classical ideals of restraint and transcendence
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Transcending sexual desire in favour of spiritual goals, while valuing the latter above the former in terms of importance and virtue, is a defining feature of early Christian theology. Some biblical scholars interpret the ... -
Voltaire: natural scientific light against Christian criminality methodologies of targeting
(AOSIS/KOERS Society of South Africa, 2015)Western thought, since the Renaissance, shows a repeated development of methods aimed at attacking Christianity, from Machiavelli’s Classicist militarism up to William James’ ‘empty’ Pragmatism. Methods have aims, and aims ... -
Weltanschauung and Apologia: a Study in C. S. Lewis
(North-West University, 2018)This thesis introduces worldview as a concept for perceiving reality, provides an overview of contemporary worldviews, and explores the key challenges to Christianity from alternative worldviews. It introduces C. S. Lewis ...