Browsing Masters Degrees (Philosophy) by Issue Date
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The operation of freedom in the individual : a study in Stuart Hampshire's philosophy of mind.
(1975)No abstract available. -
A critical examination of J.-P. Sartre's concept of freedom in the light of the relationship between en-soi and pour-soi.
(1981)No abstract available. -
The socio-ethical aspects of scientific theory with particular reference to biology.
(1987)In this dissertation scientific theory is investigated in order to show its socio-ethical aspects. An historical approach shows that prevailing historical conditions influence the development of scientific theory. ... -
Ethical correlates of Indian metaphysics with special emphasis on Samkhya, Advaita and Visistadvaita.
(1988)The work undertakes an examination of Indian metaphysical theories and their relationship to ethical ideas and moral conduct, as these operate in Indian thought. Special account is taken of the samkhya, advaita and ... -
Overcoming Nihilism : Nietzsche on self-creation, politics and morality.
(1994)This thesis explores three of Nietzsche in terms of his conception of nihilism and his attempt to overcome it. It is argued that Nietzsche views modernity as being characterized by nihilism and in a state of crisis. ... -
Fear, anxiety and death in Freud and Heidegger.
(1999)This mini-thesis attempts to understand what it means to fear death. It does this by first investigating how Heidegger and then Freud explain fear of death. Heidegger believes that the relationship Dasein has towards its ... -
Deconstituting transition : law and justice in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2000)The aim of this study is to suggest, by selective example, a form of jurisprudence which relates to and may have a salutary effect upon law and justice in post-apartheid South Africa. I describe three ways in which South ... -
Defence of the primary quality view of colour.
(2001)The aim of this thesis is to defend what is known as the primary quality view of colour. It will do this by arguing that this view better meets our conceptual schema than either of its rivals the subjectivist view or the ... -
Environmental ethics : the adequacy and applicability of extensionist approaches.
(2001)No abstract available. -
Justice and reconciliation : transitional justice in post 1994 Rwanda in the light of the South African experience.
(2002)This study deals with the problem of transitional justice in post-genocide Rwanda in the light of South African experience. Transitional justice, a kind of justice pertinent to societies in transition from dictatorship to ... -
Distributed cognition in interpersonal dialogue.
(2003)The study of cognition has suggested different views of what a system needs to perform computations. A strong computationalist approach aims at producing and preserving true statements through syntactic recombinations of ... -
Virtually explained : Daniel Dennett's theory of consciousness : explanation and implementation.
(2003)This paper is an analysis of aspects of Daniel Dennett's theory of human consciousness. For Dennett, the reasons why human consciousness is so unique among earthly creatures, and so manifestly powerful, are not to be ... -
The role of moral residue in determining the reality of genuine moral dilemmas.
(2003)The debate surrounding whether genuine moral dilemmas exist or is a longstanding one. Proponents of the existence of genuine moral dilemmas like Ruth Barcan Marcus and Bernard Williams have appealed to the moral residue ... -
Defending Rawls on the self: a response to the communitarian critique.
(2005)This thesis aims at defending John Rawls from the communitarian critique by Michael Sandel and Alasdair Maclntyre. The main focus of the thesis is to investigate how cogent their criticism of Rawls's conception of the ...