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Posted inGeneral, News/Politics

From #RhodesMustFall to #LeopoldMustFall

by Matthias Pauwels 19 June 202118 June 2021

Belgian protests a year ago have many parallels with South Africa’s decolonisation movement

Posted inGeneral

Youth Month: The SA school curriculum needs more thinking and less cramming

by Simons Town School philosophers 1 June 20213 June 2021

We cannot successfully prepare for the fourth industrial revolution until the greater part of our population is taught to think critically and independently

Posted inGeneral

The fraud of happiness

by Rafael Winkler 26 May 202126 May 2021

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

by Bert Olivier 10 April 202110 April 2021

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

by Casper Lӧtter 24 March 202124 March 2021

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

Posted inGeneral

Laws outside the law

by Bert Olivier 11 February 202111 February 2021

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

by Bert Olivier 21 November 202021 November 2020

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?

by Bert Olivier 14 October 202014 October 2020

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

by Bert Olivier 9 September 20209 September 2020

Why a German philosopher’s thoughts on art and the idea have proved to be of great historical significance

Posted inLifestyle

None of us has a fixed identity

by Bert Olivier 22 July 202022 July 2020

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

by Avishkar Govender 2 September 20192 September 2019

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

by Bert Olivier 28 May 2019

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 […]

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