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Marabi and poststructuralism(s): an inquiry into the possibility of forging a rapprochement between aspects of poststructuralist thinking and marabi in its context (1920’s-1930’s)
(University of the Free State, 2022-01)This study forges a rapprochement between aspects of poststructuralist theory and marabi in its socio-political, historical, ideological and labour contexts of the 1920s to 1930s. After considering the socio-historical ... -
Bad faith and underdevelopment in Africa: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
(University of the Free State, 2021)The main research focus of this philosophical study is to investigate Jean Paul Sartre’s philosophical concept of bad faith critically in relation to the situation of underdevelopment and development in Africa in general ... -
African metaphysics: recovery towards an alternative modernity?
(University of the Free State, 2021-03)In this thesis, it is argued that the age of modernity, which was initially a Western development, has not only found its way to the global stage and reached its climax, but that there now exists a dire need for an alternative ... -
Broadening the context of the ecological crisis: featuring the Orphic and the Promethean
(University of the Free State, 2017-10)There is an ecological crisis, categorised by various ecological indicators, and demonstrably propelled by specific large-scale human practices. These ecologically-destructive human practices could spread and grow historically ... -
Conceptual deep structures and the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer
(University of the Free State, 2000-08)The purpose of this study is to explain the notion of conceptual deep structures as a philosophical construct and to investigate such structures in the hermeneutics of Hans- Georg Gadamer. Conceptual deep structures ... -
Key structures in philosophical discourse: a universal semantics of kernel phrases
(University of the Free State, 2013-02)English: Key theory, or Logosemantics, was formulated by Johann Visagie as part of a larger project known as Discourse Archaeology (DA) which is an interlocking set of sub-theories designed to investigate the structures, ... -
Interfacing metaphors and postures for understanding deep communicative dvisions at a tertiary institution
(Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State, 2012)While South Africans have made some significant social and political progress since the first democratic elections in 1994, there are still divisions1 in this recovering society, and the aftermath of apartheid has not ... -
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 ... -
The reformational legacy within political theory
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010-09)Political theory in the West continued to suffer from the disturbing one-sidedness of atomistic (individualistic) and holistic (universalistic) orientations precluding a proper understanding of the nature of a differentiated ... -
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 ... -
World view, philosophy, and the teaching of arithmetic
(University of the Free State, 2013)English: Dilthey’s emphasis on the relativity of world and life views inspired Spengler to speak of different worlds of number. Yet, within Greek culture, Greek mathematics switched from arithmeticism to a geometrisation ... -
The raised fourth in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story
(University of the Free State, 2010)English:This article traces the functions and applications of the raised fourth-scale degree in Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story against the background of the work’s precarious positioning between a Broadway musical and ... -
Defining mathematics
(University of the Free State, 2011)English: Any definition of mathematics falls outside its field of investigation. When mathematics is set theory, the history of mathematics prior to the investing of set theory is eliminated. Arguing that the aspects of ... -
Attitudes of the elderly towards euthanasia: a cross-cultural study
(University of the Free State, 2004-12)The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes of the elderly towards euthanasia. The aims of this research study were achieved by gathering data from a number of elderly respondents aged 65 and older at several old ... -
Grondbeginsels van die normatiewe estetika
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Modale universaliteit
(University of the Free State, 1995-06)English: Universality and individuality are two irreducible traits of entities. In this regard Armstrong is correct in his assumption that individuals and universals exist in states of affairs. Through the relation of ... -
Key structures in philosophical discourse : a universal semantics of kernel phrases
(University of the Free State, 2013-02-01)English: Key theory, or Logosemantics, was formulated by Johann Visagie as part of a larger project known as Discourse Archaeology (DA) which is an interlocking set of sub-theories designed to investigate the structures, ... -
Discursive deep structure and philosophy of mind: a critique of Patricia Churchland's neurophilosophy
(University of the Free State, 2006)Patricia Churchland is a professor at the University of California and is a philosopher and cognitive scientist with special knowledge of the neurosciences. Neuroscience in her opinion is relevant to solving the problems ...
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