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53R.F.A. Hoernlé and Idealist Liberalism in South Africa1South African Journal of Philosophy 29 (2): 178-194. 2010.This paper describes the ‘idealist liberalism’ of R.F.A. Hoernlé (1880-1843), who taught in Britain, the United States, but also at the South African College and at the University of the Witwatersrand. I argue that this liberalism was strongly influenced by the British idealism of Bernard Bosanquet and T.H. Green, but also by key features of Hoernlé's South African experience. Hoernlé's idealist liberalism, I maintain, not only offered a response to the challenges of living in a multi-ethnic and…Read more
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3Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights (edited book)Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. 2011.
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39Is later British idealist political theory fundamentally conservative? 1The European Legacy 1 (1): 403-408. 1996.(1996). Is later British idealist political theory fundamentally conservative? 1. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 403-408.
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Globalization, philosophy, and the model of ecumenismSouth Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture 4. 2000.
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4Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith and Community (edited book)Editions Rodopi. 2012.Since the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist against the atheist, and the person of one faith against the person of no professed faith. But the relation of reason to faith has been a matter of debate among believers as well. There are those who hold that religious faith can be proven or supported by rational argument. Others say that to try to give reasons and arguments does violence to relig…Read more
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2Persons, Precepts, and Maritain’s Account of the Universality of Natural LawMaritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 14 141-165. 1998.
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