The virus has been saving lives – lives that would otherwise have been lost to the ordinary violences of life in this country – traffic accidents, gang...
Toekennings en mylpale
Twee jong US-wetenskaplikes vir uitnemendheid in hul vakgebiede erken
Twee wetenskaplikes van die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) is as lede van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Jong Wetenskaplikes (SAYAS) ingehuldig.
Drs Phila...
Moral injury and health care workers at the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic
For example, a study comprising 1257 HCWs conducted at the peak of the pandemic in China found that 71.5% of participants were experiencing symptoms of distress...
In defence of uncertainty
We want to believe, for example, that there is a single right response to the crisis: let people get back to work; maintain the lockdown; open up schools and...
Being and management
The Philosophy department, as is typical of humanities departments the world over, is politically firmly on the left. Personally I am an outlier; in social...
‘A view from solidarity’ and ‘A view from Environmental Ethics’
I produced two short videos, with the respective texts used in each one reproduced below. You can look at these videos on the official UNESCO website, together...
Challenging the hard distinction between the public and the private spheres in the time of Corona
On the one hand, our days have been distilled down to the minutiae of living. It often seems as if life has been reduced to a series of banal tasks – eating...
Humanity: The dialectic of achievement and failure
Before this virus struck, it was commonplace to remind children that the animals representing the greatest threat to human survival are not the predators (e.g...
Beyond the pandemic: problems of the past, present, and future
For many, the crisis and existential dread they face does not start with Covid-19 or lockdown. The incessant worry about having a job – a livelihood – food...
Life in the time of COVID
Moreover, he continues, even those of us who claim that we are glad to be alive despite life’s hardships and thus that we don’t feel harmed by being created...