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Ubuntu between tradition and modernity: on A report on Ubuntu by Leonard Praeg
(University of the Free State, 2014)
In Part 1, I overview Praeg’s points of departure, namely critical humanism, the openness of the norms of justice, the importance of potential, his conception of modernity, a violent ontology, and the state as locus of ...
Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and the perversion of critique
(University of the Free State, 2014)
In this article I investigate the relationship between Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid and
philosophy in the context of the intellectual history of the University of the Free State.
I show how two philosophers that were ...
Nie-eensgesindheid in eensgesindheid? Die verkiesing van Hendrik Verwoerd as eerste minister in 1958
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2014)
This contribution focuses on the inner-party discord of the National Party leading to the election of
Dr Hendrik Verwoerd as Prime Minister of South Africa in 1958. The National Party of 1958 was a
complex party characterized ...