Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2024.2309770
Konrad Szocik, Matti Häyry
There is no longer any doubt that the coming decades will bring serious threats to humanity from anthropogenic climate change. As we have suggested elsewhere, horrible scenarios are far more realis...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2024.2307292
Maxwell Omaboe
A popular tradition holds that the theoretical entities that feature in explanations relative to the African world view are typical of spiritual forces. Following this point of view, a concession a...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2283673
Jinghua Chen
The idea of the
的想法
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2287874
Abidemi Israel Ogunyomi
This article reconsiders Molefi Asante’s idea of Afrocentrism. It discusses Eurocentrism and the search for identity that provoked Afrocentrism as an intellectual paradigm. It details some basic te...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288765
Wandile Ganya
In this article, I consider the implications arising from the commonplace premise that the nature of being admits in ontological kinds. That is, there are actual, fundamentally different genera of ...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2275233
Manik Konch
This article explores two contrasting theories of virtue ethics, namely the unity theory of virtue and the disunity theory of virtue. The unity thesis asserts that virtues are unified in some sense...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2273124
Cyril Emeka Ejike
The aim of this article is to argue that Marcel’s idea of freedom as participation in being is what constitutes authentic freedom and existence. A “pessimistic” existentialist, Sartre conceives of ...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288754
Chantelle Gray, Aragorn Eloff
In this article we expand upon the conceptual framework of Félix Guattari’s 1989 essay, The Three Ecologies. Here Guattari examines changes in subjectivity that have come about due to scientific an...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288760
Patrick O. Aleke
Published in South African Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
发表于《南非哲学杂志》(第 42 卷第 4 期,2023 年)
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288758
S. A. Shabangu
This paper considers the African communal ethic of Ubuntu as it is understood in the South African context. Its background and context and the various interpretations of this lived ethic in society...
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