Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288764
Doreen Sesiro
This paper explores the consequences of transhumanism on free will based on the metaphysical aspect of the Botho perspective. Botho is an indigenous philosophy, prominent in Botswana, that expresse...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288751
Mark Jacob Amiradakis
Is the first generation of Critical Theory still relevant to an analysis of the technocentric nature of contemporary society – particularly its digitally based mediums of interaction and communicat...
第一代批判理论是否仍然适用于分析当代社会以技术为中心的本质--尤其是以数字为基础的互动和交流媒介?
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288756
Gregory Morgan Swer
Technological determinism, as a position on the nature and effects of technology/ technologies can be divided into optimistic and critical forms. The optimistic variety, of which contemporary cyber...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288752
A. B. Hofmeyr
This contribution seeks to understand the pervasive phenomenon of work compulsion among knowledge workers in our present network society. Knowledge workers not only have to work all the time from a...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2287807
Carla Turner
Wildlife conservation aims to protect the natural world, plant and animal species, and the habitats they form part of and rely on for survival. More particularly, it focuses on species that are con...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2288759
Darryl Wardle
The philosophical contemplation of “first philosophy” is as old as Western philosophy itself, and yet “first philosophy” is often eschewed in contemporary philosophical thought. This is because att...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2273132
Abiodun Paul Afolabi, Edwin Etieyibo
A large and important part of social relations is gender relations between men and women. Over time, the manifestation of such relations has often been one of violence, particularly violence agains...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2285078
Ebbah Dube
The purpose of this article is to bring to light a critical question which borders around the decolonial feminism discourse, and in so doing I unveil some salient insights which add valuable contri...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2275231
Vitumbiko Nyirenda, Simphiwe Sesanti
In African philosophical literature, and especially in Afro-communitarianism, there are discussions about the value of the relationship an individual has with her respective community. By community...
在非洲哲学文献中,特别是在非洲社群主义中,有关于个人与各自社群关系的价值的讨论。社区...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2283672
Onyinye Patricia Emua, Edwin Etieyibo
This article discusses some of the core values among the Igbos. This is done partly as a way of showing the way in which these values play out both in gender relations in and highlighting the way w...
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