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Moderate Communitarianism: A Conceptual Interpretation 适度社群主义:一种概念解释

Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/12556

Tosin Adeate

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Gentle Justice Reduces Recidivism and Incarceration: Can South Africa Benefit from the Finnish Experience? 温和的司法减少了累犯和监禁:南非能从芬兰的经验中受益吗?

Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/13232

Casper Lötter

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How (Most) Philosophers Have Failed Humanity (大多数)哲学家是如何辜负人类的

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/13440

B. Olivier

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White Settler-colonialism and Epistemic Violence in “Post-apartheid South Africa”: An Azanian Philosophical Analysis 白人定居者殖民主义与“后种族隔离南非”的认知暴力——阿扎尼亚哲学分析

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/6165

Masilo Lepuru

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More than one Culprit? Notes on the Ukraine Conflict. History, US and NATO’s push against the “East” drives Ukraine War 不止一个罪犯？关于乌克兰冲突的说明。历史、美国和北约对“东方”的打击推动了乌克兰战争

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-05-15 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/13439

I. Liebenberg

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Mbiti on Community in African Political Thought: Reconciling the “I” and the “We” Mbiti论非洲政治思想中的共同体:调和“我”与“我们”

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-05-08 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/12205

Tosin Adeate

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‘Conversational Decoloniality’: Re-Imagining Viable Guidelines for African Decolonial Agenda “对话式非殖民化”:重新构想非洲非殖民化议程的可行准则

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-01-20 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/11479

A. A. Oyekunle

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A Cross-cultural Feminist Analysis of Dominant Discourse on Modern Chinese Marriages: Is the personal still political? 中国现代婚姻主流话语的跨文化女性主义分析:个人的还是政治的?

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2023-01-20 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/10037

Casper Lötter

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Reflections of West-African thought Traditions in the Context of German Enlightenment: Amo as Cross-cultural Philosopher 德国启蒙语境下的西非思想传统反思——阿莫作为跨文化哲学家

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2022-12-14 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/11178

M. Ajei, W. Kahl

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Marcel and Ricoeur’s Understanding of Being as Incarnate Existence: Against the Possible Contemporary Return of the Mind-body Dualism 马塞尔和利科对存在的化身理解——兼论身心二元论可能的当代回归

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Phronimon Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.25159/2413-3086/11515

A. Verhoef, Zander Janse van Rensburg

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