Personal identity in multicultural constitutional democracies
- Authors: Lotter, H.P.P.
- Date: 2009-04-01T06:22:21Z
- Subjects: Identity , Democracy , Multiculturalism
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5633 , ISSN 02580136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2412
- Description: South African Journal of Philosophy, 17(3), 1998 , Examines an approach for accommodating varying kinds of identity within a multicultural constitutional democracy, showing how people define, construct and change their personal identities in order to become unique individuals. Examination of a definition of personal identity; Assessment of the components of personal identity; Effect which personal identity has on one's life and how it changes.
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- Authors: Lotter, H.P.P.
- Date: 2009-04-01T06:22:21Z
- Subjects: Identity , Democracy , Multiculturalism
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5633 , ISSN 02580136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2412
- Description: South African Journal of Philosophy, 17(3), 1998 , Examines an approach for accommodating varying kinds of identity within a multicultural constitutional democracy, showing how people define, construct and change their personal identities in order to become unique individuals. Examination of a definition of personal identity; Assessment of the components of personal identity; Effect which personal identity has on one's life and how it changes.
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Are human races cladistic subspecies?
- Authors: Mncube, Zinhle
- Date: 2015-06-25
- Subjects: Human races , Cladistic race concept , Cladistic subspecies
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5553 , ISSN 02580136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14139
- Description: In the article titled 'A New Perspective on the Race Debate', Robin O. Andreasen argues that contrary to popular scientific belief, human races are biologically real — it is just that we are wrong about them. Andreasen calls her contemporary biological concept of race ‘the cladistic race concept’ (or CRC). Her theory uses theory from cladistics — a systematic school founded by entomologist Willi Hennig in 1950 — to define human races genealogically as cladistic subspecies. In this paper I will argue that despite its promise as a biological definition of human races, Andreasen's CRC is unconvincing. In particular, I will show that the central problem of the CRC is its attempt to apply cladistics below the species level. In other words, there is good reason not to think that cladistic subspecies are not real, and therefore, they cannot be the target of a realist concept of race.
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- Authors: Mncube, Zinhle
- Date: 2015-06-25
- Subjects: Human races , Cladistic race concept , Cladistic subspecies
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5553 , ISSN 02580136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14139
- Description: In the article titled 'A New Perspective on the Race Debate', Robin O. Andreasen argues that contrary to popular scientific belief, human races are biologically real — it is just that we are wrong about them. Andreasen calls her contemporary biological concept of race ‘the cladistic race concept’ (or CRC). Her theory uses theory from cladistics — a systematic school founded by entomologist Willi Hennig in 1950 — to define human races genealogically as cladistic subspecies. In this paper I will argue that despite its promise as a biological definition of human races, Andreasen's CRC is unconvincing. In particular, I will show that the central problem of the CRC is its attempt to apply cladistics below the species level. In other words, there is good reason not to think that cladistic subspecies are not real, and therefore, they cannot be the target of a realist concept of race.
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The grammar of the other, the Other, autrui, Autrui : addressing translation conventions and interpretation in English-language Levinas studies
- Authors: Galetti, Dino
- Date: 2015-06-25
- Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel , Other (Philosophy)
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5559 , ISSN 02580136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14178
- Description: I will in this article aim to highlight an issue in interpretation of Levinas: that his address to his central concern for the 'other' has been deemed inconsistent, yet might well have been approached unfairly. The issue arises in English scholarship, in that translation of Levinas' four terms for otherness was adapted into 'conventions' that changed over time. By closely tracking that difficulty of conventions over four decades, I will follow their consequences for reading of Levinas and some of their impact upon the Levinasian culture. In so doing I suggest a need to re-orientate approach to Levinas' central terms, to facilitate a harmonious study of Levinas. I
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- Authors: Galetti, Dino
- Date: 2015-06-25
- Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel , Other (Philosophy)
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5559 , ISSN 02580136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14178
- Description: I will in this article aim to highlight an issue in interpretation of Levinas: that his address to his central concern for the 'other' has been deemed inconsistent, yet might well have been approached unfairly. The issue arises in English scholarship, in that translation of Levinas' four terms for otherness was adapted into 'conventions' that changed over time. By closely tracking that difficulty of conventions over four decades, I will follow their consequences for reading of Levinas and some of their impact upon the Levinasian culture. In so doing I suggest a need to re-orientate approach to Levinas' central terms, to facilitate a harmonious study of Levinas. I
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