Culture in retrospect: Essays in honour of ED Prinsloo

Authors

A.P.J. Roux, University of South Africa; P.H. Coetzee, University of South Africa; J Margolis , Temple University ; D.F.M. Strauss, University of the Free State ; A.M.T. Meyer , Landbou-universiteit van Wageningen; P Duvenage , University of the North; P.H. Coetzee, University of South Africa; P Higgs, University of South Africa; W Kistner , University of South Africa; W.J. Jordaan , University of South Africa; J Heidema , University of South Africa; W Labuschagne , University of South Africa; A.J. Antonites , University of Pretoria; M Faure , University of South Africa; F.C. de Beer , University of South Africa; J Wilkinson, University of South Africa; M Schoeman , University of Pretoria; J Hund, University of the North; M Macnamara, University of South Africa; Z Postma-de Beer, University of South Africa; J Broodryk , University of South Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/215

Keywords:

African philosophy, multicultural approach, Cultural Knowledge, Culture

Synopsis

ISBN: 1-86888-166-0

Culture in Retrospect: Essays in Honour of E.D. Prinsloo brings together a collection of essays that pay tribute to Professor E.D. Prinsloo’s legacy as a philosopher and interdisciplinary scholar. Various prominent scholars and authors from a range of subject fields have contributed to this volume. 

Contents

Preface                                                                                              (vii)

SECTION 1: Hermeneutics of culture

African identity and the matter of universals

J Margolis                                                                                                                     1

Dialectics and logicality

Between cultural diversity and ontical universality

D.F.M Strauss                                                                                                                 21

Kultuur, kulture, kultuurgoedere

A.M.T. Meyer                                                                                                                   31

SECTION 2: Culture and rationality

Philosophike martyria. Aristotle, Gadamer and the relevance

of practical-ethical knowledge in a multicultural society

P.Duvenage                                                                                                                      46

Uncovering rationality: Variations on a theme by Janz,

Trompf, Amato, Masolo, Serequeberhan and Outlaw

P.H. Coetzee                                                                                                                       62

The re-vision of Western rationality and African philosophy

P. Higgs                                                                                                                               116

SECTION 3: Culture, knowledge and science

The inadequacy of the Turing test to detect thought in computers

W Kistner                                                                                                                             134

The smell of fried onions and other stories: A case study in a narrative

understanding of multicultural competence

WJ Jordaan                                                                                                                          146

Knowledge and belief: The agent-oriented view

J Heidema & W Labuschagne                                                                                            194

Is an African science possible?

A.J Antonites                                                                                                                       215

SECTION 4: Culture and politics

Relativism and rationalism in science and politics

M Faure                                                                                                                             246

Ethnicity in nation states: a perspective on South Africa

F C. de Beer                                                                                                                        268

SECTION 5: Cultural products

What is African about African art and thought?

JR. Wilkinson                                                                                                                       291

Moderniteit, historiese bewussyn en kultuurbewaring

M Schoeman                                                                                                                      310

SECTION 6: Culture and life

Sangomas, witches, the problem of belief and African justice

J Hund                                                                                                                                 319

Hobbes and existential meaning

M Macnamara & Z. Postma-de Beer                                                                               344

Ubuntu and the concept of the family of man

J Broodryk                                                                                                                           366

Appendix: Publications by Prof E.D. Prinsloo                                                         374

 

Author Biographies

A.P.J. Roux, University of South Africa

A.P.J. Roux was associated with the Department of Philosophy of Unisa for 30 years, since 1987 as a professor. He was the head of department, the vice-dean of Cultural Sciences and a member of numerous university committees for several years. After his retirement at the end of 1993, he remained for two years as a special assistant to the Dean of Arts.

P.H. Coetzee, University of South Africa

P.H. Coetzee is formerly of the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Africa.

P.H. Coetzee, University of South Africa

P.H. Coetzee is formerly of the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Africa. 

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Published

June 30, 2001

Series

Heritage Collection

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