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Rethinking ubuntuIn James Ogude (ed.), Ubuntu and the reconstitution of community, Indiana University Press. 2019.
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118Ubuntu and the Challenges of Multiculturalism in Post-Apartheid South AfricaQuest - and African Journal of Philosophy 15 (1-2): 15-36. 2001.
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36Ubuntu: An African Assessment of the Religious OtherThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 23 34-42. 1998.The decolonization of Africa, of which the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa is the most recent example, has led to a greater recognition of the wide variety of religions practising on its soil. When confronted with this plurality, and the corresponding plurality of claims to truth or credibility, believers often resort to absolutism. The absolutist evaluates the religious other in view of criteria which violate the self-understanding of the latter. The religious other is thus being colon…Read more
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11Pastoraat as vertolking: Metaforiese teologie binne die konteks van 'n pastorale hermeneutiekHTS Theological Studies 55 (2/3). 1999.
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1Ubuntu revaluedTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 77 (1): 7-26. 2015.The African ubuntu ethic upholds the identification with, and compassion for, others. As such, many have hailed it as the antidote for Africa’s social ailments. However, the author argues that ubuntu harbours a number of controversies, which suggests that it needs critical and creative re-evaluation. These controversies centre around: the existence of ubuntu, so-called “bi-polar thinking‘, the aim of consensus and the concomitant danger of hegemony, the inclusivity of the ubuntu community, ubunt…Read more
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The neo-inclusivistic approach to religious pluralitySouth African Journal of Philosophy 23 (1): 82-107. 2004.
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Theocentrism and reality-centrism: a critique of John Hick and Wilfred Cantwell Smith's philosophy of religious pluralismSouth African Journal of Philosophy 13 (1): 1-8. 1994.
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40Die neo-inklusivistiese benadering tot religieuse pluraliteit (The neo-inclusivistic approach to religious plurality)South African Journal of Philosophy 23 (1): 82-107. 2004.“Neo-inclusivism” is explained and assessed as an approach to the problem of the conflicting claims to truth of different religions, with reference to inter alia John B. Cobb (Jr.), Gavin D'Costa and Paul Ingram. For the neo-inclusivist the truth of a religious tradition depends on its inclusivistic capacity, i.e. its capacity to assimilate other traditions. For ex ample, by being enriched and transformed through “radical openness” to other traditions, while remaining “committed” to her own trad…Read more
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19Oor die moontlikheid van interreligieuse kommunikasie. (On the possibility of interreligious communication)South African Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 255-278. 2000.Do adherents of different religious traditions communicate and, if so, how? What enables them to do so? What is interreligious “communication”? These issues are ad dressed with reference to Wilfred Cantwell Smith's hermeneutical rule, and to inter alia Paul Knitter, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, David Tracy, and John Dunne. Four responses to the question as to what permits interreligious communication are criticised. According to a fifth response, on which the author elaborates, interrel…Read more
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The possibility of interreligious communicationSouth African Journal of Philosophy 19 (3): 255-278. 2000.
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41Defining Philosophical Counselling: An Overview1South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (1): 60-70. 2013.The practice of ‘Philosophical Counselling’ (henceforth ‘PC’) is growing. But what exactly is PC? The variety of attempts to define PC can be summarised in terms of three overlapping sets of opposites: practical versus theoretical definitions; monistic versus pluralistic definitions; and substantive versus antinomous definitions. ‘Practical’ definitions of PC include descriptive accounts of its actual practice. ‘Theoretical’ definitions exclude such accounts. ‘Monistic definitions’ refers to def…Read more
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16Op soek na ekumeniese kriteria: meta-religieuse criteria. (Looking for ecumenical criteria: meta-religious criteria)South African Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 302-326. 2004.How may or should adherents of a particular religion assess other religious traditions? Whether they can avoid both absolutism and relativism depends on the availability of “ecumenical criteria”, i.e. a common scale in view of which the adherents of different religious traditions may jointly judge these traditions. It is argued that such a scale may exist even if we assume that the adherents of the different religions do not have any religious beliefs or criteria in common. This scale may exist …Read more
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25Towards a decolonized assessment of the religious otherSouth African Journal of Philosophy 18 (4): 390-407. 1999.
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1Metaphorical truth, conflict, and truth-experience: a critique of Vincent BrümmerSouth African Journal of Philosophy 13 (2): 58-65. 1994.
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