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‘Feline Philosophy’: A cat’s-eye view on life’s meaning

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In his latest book, philosopher John Gray examines how cats live according to their nature — and how us humans could benefit from emulating their (c)attitude
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Black futures in the age of apocalypse

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Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism
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‘There are Mechanisms in Place’: Collaboration births sacred text

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‘There are Mechanisms in Place’, comprising text, poetry and visual analysis of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice, reveals how working together is a powerful philosophy
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Eusebius McKaiser: A way to find meaning in a strange world

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How we live has changed – we cannot avoid the threat of death brought by the coronavirus
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Identity by race does matter

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Celebrating the first ‘black’ or ‘African’ woman to get a doctorate in philosophy raises critical issues
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‘Don’t objectify black people through white guilt’

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White people should take responsibility for what they’ve done to black people and feel remorse
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Isn’t identity informed by experience?

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To question someone’s authority to speak on their own identity and inwardness is truly questionable.
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​Demise of philosophical society not black and white

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The Philosophical Society of Southern Africa appears to be falling apart over Africanising a Eurocentric viewpoint.
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​The age of humanism is ending

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The divergence of democracy and capital will defy reason and politics will become brutal survivalism.
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‘The vilest of men rise to the greatest credit’

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French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings from 1755 could have well been written today, about South Africa.
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Violence: What Fanon really said

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The revolutionary philosopher fought racism and colonialism, but he was not a violent man.
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No country for brilliant thinkers

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Why is Mabogo More, probably the "most frequently cited philosopher living in South Africa today", almost unknown in the country?
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What do we mean when we speak of ubuntu?

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Ubuntu is a central idea in post-apartheid South Africa, but scholars disagree on whether it informs the Constitution or undermines it.
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The comforts of orthodoxy

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Six books aiming to revive the self-help genre are themselves in need of help, says Michael Titlestad
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‘A lot of what I write is blah blah, bullshit’

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<b>Stuart Jefferies</b> chats to Slavoj Zizek, a philosopher who combines theories of anarchy, communism and Lady Gaga with aplomb.
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