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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...
The quest for unity in South Africa
Link to The Conversation
What’s our duty to future generations? Greta Thunberg demands an answer
Sunday Times Article
‘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...
Being and management
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 level of organisation have been among the best in the Faculty. One would suppose that there is...