The media was in shock after the televised public humiliation of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. US President Donald Trump and Vice-president JD Vance were pouncing on him like bullies in the school yard. Trump went as far as to say that he — Zelenskyy — had instigated the war with Russia, […]
If democracy is to be safeguarded, it must unlearn virtue signalling and cancel culture and learn to disagree
We are born into a world of forced choices and the feeling that something is missing haunts us
Our collective identity has once again arrived at a seminal point in our history
In late capitalist societies there is too much choice and our freedom is making us anxious
To identify contemporary forms of oppression with the use of a dated metaphor perpetuates current forms of oppression
Professor Rafael Winkler unravels several philosophies of the age that lie behind an anti-slavery 19th century lithograph
Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is not
Our egos are shaped by who we identify with and we rank those categories with whom we identify. Selfishness and self-interest are in the interest of these others we identify; altruism is a function of selfishness
I recently edited a special issue for a journal on sexuality, capitalism and Africa. It was based on the topic that served as the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa’s 5th Annual International Conference, which took place in Johannesburg in June 2018. There are several reasons we chose this as our theme for a special […]