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Prof. J.P. Smit
Prof. J.P. Smit
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Challenging the hard distinction between the public and the private spheres in the time of Corona
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly contracted and enlarged our frontiers of being.
Life in the time of COVID
Before COVID-19, one of my recent research projects focused on refutations of anti-natalist arguments; specifically, that of David Benatar. Anti-natalists hold that having children is unethical, and Benatar bases this claim on the concept...
Humanity: The dialectic of achievement and failure
It is ever more universally claimed that the global spread of the potentially lethal Covid 19 virus represents the greatest health and economic disaster that we have seen since the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the First and Second World Wars...
Abortion: A Recurring Dispute
Just when one began to think that the world has enough problems, the dispute about abortion has been re-opened. This year it is 50 years since the sensational American Supreme Court ruling that found that the state does not have the right...
Values and choices
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 the abrupt changes to our lifestyles: to the ways in which we live and work. These changes...
Beyond the pandemic: problems of the past, present, and future
Many of the differential effects of the global catastrophes we face today can be traced to pre-existing socio-political and economic realities. We have seen this in the last decade with the ever more serious disasters of the climate crises...
In defence of uncertainty
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 work out and life will go on. The COVID pandemic has upended this easy reliance on the...
‘A view from solidarity’ and ‘A view from Environmental Ethics’
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 colleagues from Southern Africa and further afield, was approached by the Regional Office of UNESCO...