Open Research Collection: Recent submissions

  • Ladikos, Anastasios (2005)
    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 ...
  • Ram, Indranie (2005)
    The relationship between Plato’s conception of the existence of a soul as compared to the Vedantic view of a soul will be analysed. Vedanta philosophy holds in agreement with Plato that there is a magazine of knowledge ...
  • Bosman, Phlip (2005)
    In this paper, I explore the evidence in the Diogenes tradition on the issue of theft. A line in Diogenes Laertius suggests that the Cynic approved of temple theft. However, before that can be taken as proof, various ...
  • Van der Westhuizen, Jacob (2005)
    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) ...
  • Ladikos, Anastasios (2004)
    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 ...
  • Brink, Basil (2007-06-25)
    Newtown, a district in the western inner city of Johannesburg, has a long history of urban renewal of contested inner city space. The City Council of Johannesburg’s councillors, planners and consultants have guided and ...
  • Brink, Basil Downs, Robert (Sapoa News, 1990-03)
    The purpose of this article is to create an awareness of commercial property development opportunities offered by transport land. Examples are presened of such developments in first world countries. A systematic approach ...
  • Brink, Basil (Railways Africa, 1999-02)
    The artcle outlines the planning and construction history of Esselenpark and shatters some of the myths surrounding its construction. It examines why such an anachronistic, labour intenive and expensive complex was built ...
  • Brink, Basil (2012-03-05)
    A mixed use building with shops, offices and apartments is designed within an urban design framework for Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town
  • 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 ...
  • Brink, Basil Niel (1998-04-07)
    Esselen Park is Transnet's (formerly the SA Railways and Harbours thereafter the SA Transport Services) relatively unknown 'university in the veld'. In this paper the planning and construction histories of Esselen Park ...
  • Brink, Basil Niel (2012-03-01)
    Transnet owns unutilised buildings and vacant land in both urban and more outlying areas. Opportunities for improved utilisation or development of these non core properties are presented
  • Brink, Basil Niel (2012-03-01)
    The working paper provides a review of the activities of the Business Development unit in SA Transport Services
  • Chimbo, Bester Gelderblom, J.H. De Villiers, M.R. (Ruth) (2011-12)
    The learnability principle relates to improving the usability of software, as well as users’ performance and productivity. A gap has been identified as the current definition of the principle does not distinguish between ...
  • Brink, Basil Niel (1986-04)
    The article commences with an overview of the development of planning theory and culminates in an evaluation of scenarios of the relationship between the individual and the spatial environment. Andreas Faludi's book 'Planning ...
  • Brink, Basil Niel (2006-07-27)
    Planning for a green built environment is contextualised within notions of sustainability and unsustainability. The need to create a greater awareness of green planning processes; the importance of integrating green planning ...
  • Brink, Basil Niel (1998-09-21)
    Provinces in South Africa have formulated one or more Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) to unlock potential and improve socio-economic conditions in their areas of jurisdiction. This paper provides an overview of these SDIs.
  • Flipsen, Jacco Alkema, Diana (Springer, 2012)
    Workshop presentation on how to write articles for scientific publications.
  • Strijdom, Johan M. (2004)
    This paper offers a comparative analysis of the ways in which Plato used mythical language in order to convey his views on love and politics. For politics, the myth of the metals in the Republic and of Atlantis in ...
  • Rayner, R. J. (Unisa Press, 2001)
    To assess the effectiveness of its marketing strategy, the Faculty of Science has been conducting research with its first-year intake for the last two years. Students registering for the first time at undergraduate level ...

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