Belgian protests a year ago have many parallels with South Africa’s decolonisation movement
philosophy
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Youth Month: The SA school curriculum needs more thinking and less cramming
We cannot successfully prepare for the fourth industrial revolution until the greater part of our population is taught to think critically and independently
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The fraud of happiness
Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is not
Posted inGeneral, Health
The passive nihilism of the present age
Consumerism has turned us into the new proletariat while our devices have switched off our brains
Posted inEquality, News/Politics
Atlanta killings illustrate the intersection of xenophobia and misogyny
Stereotypes of and violence against Asians in America, and Chinese people by those who fear Covid or by Zulu monarchs are all part of the same unconscious need for “othering” which also drives violence against women
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Laws outside the law
New developments regarding ‘homo sacer’ and ‘bare life’ under pandemic conditions
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Socrates and philosophy: Not honouring the gods of the city
Conflicting messages about the pandemic beg us to go the way of philosophers and examine every claim to validity or truth, particularly with regard to evidence.
Posted inLifestyle
Does philosophy have a role in society?
Philosophers have a different take on current affairs and pose their own problems. They point out the distance between truth and power. Then it is up to us to choose
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Celebrating art 250 years after Hegel’s birth
Why a German philosopher’s thoughts on art and the idea have proved to be of great historical significance
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None of us has a fixed identity
The actual character of reality as a process eludes most people because we are indoctrinated from a young age
Posted inEnvironment, Equality, General, News/Politics
Biko: Philosophy, identity and liberation
Reading Biko: Philosophy, Identity and Liberation by Professor Mabogo Percy More; I am left to wonder of the man (Bantu Stephen “Steve” Biko) who should have been king; that is the man who should have been the first black president of the Republic of South Africa. Or is that racist? Perhaps I should say, the […]
Posted inEquality, General, Media
Another important European conference for Afrikaans-speaking philosophers
About two years ago I wrote a piece for this site on an important conference for Afrikaans in Europe, which was held in Gent, Belgium, by the NAWG (Nederlands-Afrikaanse Wijsgerige Vereniging, or the Netherlands-Afrikaans Philosophical Society). We are at this biennial conference again, this time in Leiden, Holland, from where it will rotate to South […]