This study investigates the interaction between freedom and limitation as applied to political expression and hate speech. The need for the limitation of hate speech, with its inherent risk of escalation into other serious ...
The business world has changed dramatically over the last decade to address the reality of
globalisation in the sphere of business. However, most universities have remained intact as local
universities servicing local ...
The influence of the age of female academics on their work experience in South
African universities has not been researched to date. Yet, much publicity has
been given to the “leaking pipeline” syndrome, referring term ...
The Performance Management System (PMS) has been introduced in the South African public service with the intentions of monitoring, reviewing, assessing performance,
developing underperformers, and recognising and rewarding ...
The aim of this paper is to offer a nuanced study of
‘compassion’ in the context of the Pauline Letters. The Letters are
considered within the socio-political context of imperial Rome.
‘Compassion’ is a complex emotion; ...
The aim of this paper is to explain Aristotle’s views on education with specific
reference to Intellectual and Character education. Aristotle asserts that the
theory and practice of education in general must undoubtedly ...
In this paper I attempt a preliminary investigation of a family of
cognitively significant emotions (which includes inter alia interest,
attention, surprise) while focusing more specifically upon the
philosophically ...
In this paper I offer a preliminary investigation of the modalities
of Plato’s reception as evidenced in Marsilio Ficino’s Letters to
Lorenzo De’ Medici. I examine some features of the genre
speculum principis, which ...
Protagoras’ declaration that “man is the measure of all things” is
conventionally discussed in the context of epistemology. There
was, however, a communal or social dimension to this even in
ancient Greece. In the ...
The pursuit of justice in the Republic commences when the
elderly, wealthy Cephalus suggests that justice involves nothing
more than telling the truth and repaying one’s debts. But
Socrates points out that by following ...
Plato’s theory of punishment distinguishes scientifically
administered measures, which may or may not take the form of
actual punishment designed to cure a criminal of his offence
which is a disease of the soul, not ...
In my view a philosopher is a person of wisdom who produces a
guide to life, providing us with some tools for dealing with
practical problems and survival issues on at least five adaptation
domains. These are a) ...
Aristotle views the courageous man as someone who endures
and fears the right things, for the right motive, in the right
manner, and at the right time, given that a courageous man feels
and acts according to the merits ...
Lombaard, Christo(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
The history of the churches in South Africa has also been
a history of the scholarly interpretation of the Bible. Critical
Pentateuch theory has a peculiar nature in this regard in
that its main proponents have felt a ...
This thesis examines the role of praying sacred curses as a means of exercising ecclesiastical discipline within the Christian church. Through a brief analysis of selected social issues challenging the church in the United ...
A number of ethical issues and dilemmas are to be found in policing. Police
officers do engage in unethical behaviour which often originates from the
norms of the organisational culture. However, the working in the world ...
The logical role of the paradox is not to state a truth whose
paradoxical nature lies in the difficulty we feel in maintaining it as
true, but rather to state somefhing thaf will cause fo feel as fa/se
something else ...
Every educational research community is infused with the sensibilities of intellectual epochs and movements that anteceded it and that gave rise to it. In the decade approaching the end of the 20th century educational ...
At the previous conference my purpose was to give a rhetorical
interpretation to the sacred geometry of the west façade of the
Parthenon, the best-known of all Greek tempies, the apogee of
Hellenic architecture, built ...