COVID-19 Reflections
Challenging the hard distinction between the public and the private spheres in the time of Corona
by Minka Woermann | Jul 12, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly contracted and enlarged our frontiers of being. On the one hand, our days have been distilled down to the minutiae...
Humanity: The dialectic of achievement and failure
by Anton van Niekerk | Jul 11, 2020
It is ever more universally claimed that the global spread of the potentially lethal Covid 19 virus represents the greatest health and economic...
Being and management
by JP Smit | Jul 10, 2020
Our department has, on the whole, coped remarkably well with the Covid situation. A number of students have told us that our teaching and general...
In defence of uncertainty
by Vasti Roodt | Jul 9, 2020
So much of everyday life depends on trust: trust that tomorrow will arrive, that nothing catastrophic will happen when it does, that our plans will...
Moral injury and health care workers at the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic
by Andrea Palk | Jul 8, 2020
Having a keen interest in ethical themes in global mental health and psychiatry, I have been particularly concerned about the long-term impact of...
Beyond the pandemic: problems of the past, present, and future
by Phila Msimang | Jul 7, 2020
Many of the differential effects of the global catastrophes we face today can be traced to pre-existing socio-political and economic realities. We...
‘A view from solidarity’ and ‘A view from Environmental Ethics’
by Johan Hattingh | Jul 6, 2020
At the beginning of April, just after the first phase of South Africa’s hard lockdown at level 5 was announced, I, together with a number of...
Values and choices
by Susan Hall | Jul 5, 2020
It is now over three months since South Africa’s national lockdown was announced. Even as restrictions begin to ease, we all continue to adjust to...
Will Corona leave behind a decent, more caring, society?
by Louise du Toit | Jul 4, 2020
Over the first three months of the Corona virus outbreak in South Africa, a netto number of 7500 lives have been saved. This means, with the death...
Life in the time of COVID
by Tanya de Villiers-Botha | Jul 3, 2020
Before COVID-19, one of my recent research projects focused on refutations of anti-natalist arguments; specifically, that of David Benatar....