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Vulnerability and the Sovereign Individual: Nussbaum and Nietzsche on the role of agency and vulnerability in personhood
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Sharli A Paphitis --- Department of Philosophy, South AfricaIn her paper Pity and Mercy: Nietzsche's Stoicism, Martha Nussbaum argues that Nietzsche's philosophical project can be seen in part as an attempt to ‘bring about a revival of Stoic values of self-command and self-transformation’. She argues that, to his... -
The Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence and its significance with respect to On the Genealogy of Morals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Sharli Anne Paphitis --- Department of Philosophy Rhodes University, South AfricaReading the writings of Nietzsche is somewhat like putting together a large and complex jigsaw puzzle. In this paper I aim to show how two pieces of Nietzsche’s puzzle fit together: the first piece being the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence;... -
Questions of the Self in the Personal Autonomy Debate: Some Critical Remarks on Frankfurt and Watson
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Sharli Anne Paphitis --- Department of Philosophy, South AfricaCurrently, the most influential accounts of personal autonomy, at least in the English-speaking world, focus on providing conditions under which agents can be said to exercise self-control. Two distinct accounts of personal autonomy have emerged in this tradition: firstly, hierarchical... -
Challenging the dominant ideological paradigm: Can community engagement contribute to the central epistemic aims of philosophy?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Philosophy • Authors: Sharli Anne Paphitis --- Community Engagement Division, South Africa Lindsay Kelland --- Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, South AfricaIn this paper, we aim to put forward a view of philosophy that allows for the transformation of the discipline through community engagement activities within the South African higher education context in a way that enhances both the nature of...