Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Philosophy) by Issue Date
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Membrane changes and lipid peroxidation during ageing in seeds of Lactuca sativa L.
(1986)Abstract available in PDF file. -
Comparative metaphysics of the Vedas, Upanisads and the Bhagavad Gita.
(1990)No abstract available. -
Democracy, power and the organization of education projects.
(1994)Abstract available in pdf file. -
Ideology, virtue and well-being : a critical examination of Francis Fukuyama's notion of liberal democracy.
(2003)This thesis is a critical examination of Fukuyama's "end of history" version of liberalism, in which he announces the triumphant emergence of liberal democracy as a universal form of governance. The thesis ... -
Reasoning in practice : foundation for understanding in a multi- cultural context.
(2004)The thesis is based on the assumption that reasoning functions in its context. The locus of this context is the subject-in-act. The subject-in-act observes, wonders, asks questions, judges and makes justifications. In ... -
The concept of person in African political philosophy : an analytical and evaluative study.
(2008)The communitarian conception of person is the dominant view of personhood in African philosophy. This view centrally holds that personhood is something that is attained in direct proportion to one's moral worth and one's ... -
Freud and the legacy of Greece.
(2008)This thesis traces Freud's debt to classical Greece and argues that the development of his theory should not be considered apart from its roots in this legacy. The psychoanalytic project sheltered under the umbrella of ... -
A critical examination of Richard Rorty's liberal lexicon.
(2010)This dissertation examines Richard Rorty's liberalism, especially as articulated in Contingency, irony, and solidarity, from a perspective which is sympathetic to the broad features of his pragmatism. I argue that Rorty's ... -
Against a priori knowledge of non-trivial truths.
(2014)This is a thesis in support of the conceptual yoking of analytic truth to a priori knowledge. My approach is a semantic one; the primary subject matter throughout the thesis is linguistic objects, such as propositions or ... -
Success factors for business rescue in South Africa
(2016)In 2011 a new Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008 (RSA, 2008), was implemented in South Africa. A feature of this Act was the introduction of business rescue legislation. Although this legislation was implemented in May 2011, ... -
Informal economic activities in Ghana : a case study of slums in Kumasi and Accra.
(2016)ABSTRACT Slums are urban households, which lack permanently durable housing, adequate living space, access to clean water, suitable sanitation and land tenure security. Globally, slums house a third of the world’s ... -
The assessment of quality service at Capitec bank in KZN: a Pinetown region based case study.
(2016)ABSTRACT This work sought to access and analyses customer satisfaction with quality of service delivery at Capitec Bank, Pinetown. The six Pinetown Capitec branch offices were purposively chosen for this work. The ... -
An inquiry into the nature of group agency and individual agency : a study of rational autonomy.
(2017)Human agency entails being able to rationalize over decisions, passing judgements and executing actions based on these deliberations. All these rationalizations and executions flow from a principle of rational autonomy. ... -
Rethinking universalism and particularism in African philosophy: towards an eclectic approach.
(2019)The study focuses on the dispute between the universalists and particularists in the characterization of the nature of African philosophy. In African philosophy the debate is formulated as a dichotomy between the universalists ... -
Epistemology in African Philosophy: A critique of African concepts of knowledge.
(2019)The question of the existence of African epistemology cannot be addressed without the acknowledgement and acceptance of African philosophy. This is of paramount importance as African epistemology originates from the discourse ... -
Towards a theory of moral status of the dead and its contribution to medical research and learning: the case of unclaimed cadavers.
(2021)Most, if not all, human cultures consider dead human bodies to be deserving of moral respect. The same moral attitude is generally absent regarding dead animal bodies. In a trade-off situation involving the stark choice ...