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’n Werkgroep vir teologie, filosofie en ander vakdissiplines
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The proposal to start a workshop among theologians, philosophers and other specialists is connected to the view that foundational issues exist in every faculty and in every field of study. A distinction between theology as “divinity knowledge” and philosophy as “secular rational discourse” is set aside by explaining that both theology and philosophy are “sciences of faith”. Not one single discipline is without its bona fides and its foundational issues. Hence, the suggestion to pay continual attention to foundational issues in theology, philosophy and other concerned disciplines in an interdisciplinary workshop. Using the so-called multidimensional scope of science (empirical, methodological and dimension of meta-issues) the author argues that any scientific discipline is inextricably bound up with foundational issues. Some limitations and some advantages of scientific inquiries like logical critique, transcendental critique, and transforming of elements of truths serve as to deliberately further co-operation between specialists on common fundamental issues, on inadmissible/undesirable differences and on indispensable diversity. Several assumptions are presented, for example one’s own specialist field does not have the final word about common issues; that various specialists can learn from one another;Christian theology does not render Christian scholarship redundant in other scientific disciplines such as languages or philosophy. Special disciplines deteriorate in scientific quality whenever specialists tend to get rid of their inherent foundational issues,tend to keep quiet about them, or pass them on to philosophers
Persone wat 'n kort kursus by die Dept. Wysbegeerte bygewoon het.
No full textFormat: TIFF; Size: 8.28 MB; Dimensions: 3504 x 2478 pixels; Resolution: 300 ppiThe Philosophy Department arranged a short course. In the photo from l. to r.: Mr. A.H. le Roux, former head of the Discovery School, Dr. G.J. Black, pastor of the Andrew Murray congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church, Prof. P.G.W. Du Plessis and Miss. V. Pretorius, deputy head of the Hoër Meisieskool Helpmekaar
Persone wat 'n kort kursus by die Dept. Wysbegeerte bygewoon het.
No full textFormat: TIFF; Size: 8.28 MB; Dimensions: 3504 x 2478 pixels; Resolution: 300 ppiThe Philosophy Department arranged a short course. In the photo from l. to r.: Mr. A.H. le Roux, former head of the Discovery School, Dr. G.J. Black, pastor of the Andrew Murray congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church, Prof. P.G.W. Du Plessis and Miss. V. Pretorius, deputy head of the Hoër Meisieskool Helpmekaar
Prof. E. MacMullin besoek die Department Wysbegeerte
No full textFormat: TIFF; Size: 8.28 MB; Dimensions: 3504 x 2478 pixels; Resolution: 300 ppiA well-known American philosopher, prof. E. MacMullin visited the Dept. of Philosophy during April and May 1982. On the photo he appears (middle) with prof. P.G.W. du Plessis, chairman of the Dept. of Philosophy, the rector, prof. J.P. de Lange, mr. Johan Mouton and mr. Koos Pauw, both from the Dept. of Philosophy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Environmental ethics of the future
Get PDFIn future we shall have to enrich our impoverished and endangered world by substituting our claims on pleasure, comfort and power with a claim for responsibility and stewardship. By doing this we ought to transform nature from being the refuse-heap of technology into a breath of culture. The world was created for man to live on it and not to be mutilated and reduced to irredeemable chaos. As a criterion for our association with nature we must remember that everything that we are technologically capable of, is not necessarily morally desirable. We should not live and work at the expense of our environment but for the benefit of the environment. The tradition of man's dominion over nature should be replaced by a tradition of stewardship. This new approach to environmental ethics must constitute an inalienable part of a multi-disciplinary approach
Wetenskap met en sonder diepte?
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In trying to understand science in interaction with its presuppositions, values and bona fides, an overview of three different but closely related dimensions or layers or zones of science present in the functioning of different disciplines is given in this article. Then the different paradigms, presuppositions and/or control beliefs typical of modernist and postmodernist theories of science are underlined. This approach could contribute towards understanding some of the modernist and postmodernist affiliations and inclinations toward specific dimensions or particular phases of the scientific venture. In the critical evaluation of these schools of thought the concept “science” is understood as a multi-dimensional knowledge act. The history of science contains no traces of science without its creeds. It is, however, agreed that science is also underdetermined by its presuppositions and that it should not be equated to a world and life view. What science ultimately is and should be cannot be rationally and scientifically fathomed. Lastly it is attempted to explain in what way our view of wisdom as a deeper dimension of science also allows for a deeper (than logical) critical discussion with scientists holding a different view of the world
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Omgewingsetiek ten gunste van natuur én mens?
Get PDFEnvironmental ethics: a case for nature and man? This article outlines three approaches to the relationship between man and the environment. An anthropocentric environmental ethics of dominion over and exploitation of the environment is contrasted to a nature-centred environmental ethics that reduces man's interests to that of nature. The alternative to an anthropocentric ethos, with its slogan of ‘man/mind over nature/matter’, is however, not to be found in an ecocentric ethos defending the opposite case of subordinating man and his cultural values to the holiness of environment. A third approach can be called the ethos of responsible stewardship attempting to reconcile the interests of human society with that of the environment. Some implications of the theses 'man is a steward, not the owner of the earth’ and ‘man is an irreducible complement to, not an extension of the earth’ and ‘natural things also have a moral dimension’ are investigated. This investigation results in a broadening of the boundaries of morality for the benefit to the environment. To reconcile the interests of man and nature, the new ethics will i.a. have to extend man's responsibility beyond his fellowmen and his societal institutions to his fellow creatures. Without man, nature’s inherent identity cannot be detected and nurtured but without nature, man cannot become a moral being
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