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{"title":"There is no Supreme Constitution - a Critique of Statist-individualist Constitutionalism (2019)","authors":"K. Malan","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'n Huldiging: NP van Wyk Louw - silwer herberg in die sneeu (2020) - Ronél Johl (redakteur)","authors":"A. Roux","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"De dichter en de doodskop","authors":"E. Francken","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a16","url":null,"abstract":"Begin 2021 hoorden we alles wat we weten wilden (en meer) over het wel en wee van de Nederlandse boekenwereld in 2020. Dat jaar was afgesloten met een grote domper, want winkels en bibliotheken moesten op 15 december sluiten vanwege de pandemie. En dat terwijl er in die laatste weken normaal extra veel wordt verkocht. Toch was ik vorig jaar te somber, toen ik in mijn glazen bol had gezien dat 2020 slechter zou worden dan 2019. Er zijn in 2020 41 miljoen boeken verkocht, even veel als in 2018 en 1 miljoen meer dan in 2019. Het beste genre is het kinderboek (plus 5 %), en dat geeft hoop voor de toekomst. Maar de verschuiving van de traditionele boekwinkel naar de handel online ging helaas door. Die is al lang aan de gang maar wordt versneld als de winkels dicht zijn. In 2019 besteedden de lezers 63 % van hun boekengeld in winkels, in 2020 56 %. De race om de titel “het best verkochte boek” is de laatste jaren niet spannend meer. Steeds wint De zeven zussen van Lucinda Riley, nu met 227.000 stuks. Nog saaier wordt het op de Top Tien, want van die tien zijn er maar liefst zes delen uit de Zussen-serie. Rutger Bregman houdt de eer van Nederland hoog met De meeste mensen deugen, op de tweede plaats. Dit was bovendien het meest uitgeleende boek bij de Openbare Bibliotheek. De avond is ongemak van Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, bekroond met de Engelse Booker Prijs, werd nummer 11. Alle verstoring van het openbare leven door de pandemie is in 2021 doorgegaan. De boekwinkels gingen open maar moesten weer dicht toen het aantal besmettingen te groot werd Dit keer op 19 december, opnieuw kort voor kerstmis. Vrolijke acties om geliefde boekwinkels te hulp te komen, zijn weer gestart, maar ze lijken minder in getal en ook wat minder vrolijk.","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67478996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolftrieksterverhale: Strukturele en inhoudelike patroonmatighede Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories: Patterning in the structure and general content","authors":"C. P. van der Vyver","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a10","url":null,"abstract":"OPSOMMING In hierdie artikel word verslag gedoen van 'n deduktiewe ontleding van 'n versameling Jakkals-en-Wolfverhale met betrekking tot struktuurelemente, strukturele patrone, variasiepatrone en inhoud volgens die beginsels van strukturalistiese narratologie. Die struktuurmodelle wat reeds deur ander navorsers in volks- en trieksterverhale uitgewys is, is ook aan hierdie korpus getoets. Daar is bevind dat Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolfverhale ooreenstem met die universele patrone van trieksterverhale. Dit het ook geblyk dat die held in hierdie verhale bepaal word deur die oogpunt waaruit die gebeure beskou word. Jakkals is onder meer 'n metafoor van die triekster wat in 'n sosiaal beter posisie geplaas word deur die feit dat hy slim is en daarin kan slaag om die fisiek sterkere te uitoorlê. Daar is bevind dat die struktuur van die Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolfverhale in sekere opsigte uniek is - 'n universele verlede, unieke karakters, 'n beperkte ruimte, 'n verteller-fokalisator, gebeure waarvan die episodes op mekaar volg, episodes wat ingebed is in 'n handelingsreeks en vertellers wat ingestel is op die kindergehoor. Dit is duidelik dat die struktuur en algemene inhoud van Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolftrieksterverhale dinamies gebly het. 'n Wyer soektog behoort geloods te word om meer volksverhale, in veral die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks, wetenskaplik te versamel sodat meer verhale met mekaar vergelyk kan word ten einde tot 'n algemener gevolgtrekking te kan kom oor die struktuur en patroonmatig-hede in Suid-Afrikaanse volksverhale. Trefwoorde: aktante, dieptestruktuur, narratief, ontleding, patroonmatighede, triekster, trieksterverhaal, struktuur, struktuurelemente, volksverhaal ABSTRACT This article explores characteristic or repetitive pattern formations in the structure and general content of selected Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories. By using a specific methodology, a corpus of stories was first selected, followed by a comparative analysis of the different stories. An analysis of repetitive patterns necessitates both syntagmatic and paradigmatic readings of the stories, as demonstrated in both Bremond's (1977) model, dealing with the action in stories and Greimas's (1966) actantial model focusing on different functions of characters. By utilising these analytic models, the methods of storytelling and foregrounding, as well as the meaning of these relationships and of the stories as a whole could be discerned. Pre-existing structural readings of the folk tale, the trickster tale and Jackal and Wolf stories also added value to the research. Some examples from the corpus of stories are provided to illustrate and substantiate findings. The corpus consisted of sound recordings by a project team led by Du Plessis (1987:814), recordings made by the researcher in the Murraysburg district in June 2010, Jackal and Wolf stories told by Dana Niehaus (2011), and stories from the volumes Die Kaskenades van Jakkals en Wolf (Rousseau, 2011), Die Mooiste ","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Só boer die US Museum vooruit","authors":"Bongani Mgijima","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uitdagings en geleenthede in die bedryf van diplo-masie - Voor, tydens en ná Covid-19 Challenges and opportunities in practising diplomacy - Before, during and after Covid-19","authors":"R. Eksteen","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a6","url":null,"abstract":"OPSOMMING Die wêreld beleef onstuimige tye en nie eens diplomasie kon veranderinge ontsnap toe Covid-19 die wêreld in Januarie 2020 getref het nie. Hedendaagse diplomasie verander teen 'n ongekende tempo en word gekenmerk deur nuwe rolspelers, nuwe vraagstukke en verantwoordelikhede en ook om diplomasie op digitale wyse te bedryf. Ou benaderings wat vir dekades, selfs eeue gegeld het, het drasties verander. Diplomasie kon nie verwag om steeds op sy eie voort te gaan asof niks gebeur het nie. Benadering tot en toepassing en bedryf van diplomasie is in die afgelope twee jaar tot in sy wese geraak. Die velerlei onderwerpe waaraan diplomate hul aandag moet skenk, neem steeds toe in omvang en intensiteit. Gevolglik kan alles nie in die bestek van 'n enkele artikel beskryf en uiteengesit word nie. Daarom is parameters gestel waarbinne bepaalde onderwerpe sinvol aangespreek word. Bykomend hiertoe word gepoog om die wesentlike probleme wat diplomate oor 'n wye veld in die gesig staar aan te spreek in die lig van die buitengewone omstandighede wat hulle moet hanteer. Die vraag is nou hoe diplomate vir hierdie nuwe wêreld in hul beroep voorberei en geskool word. Deesdae word van hulle verwag om internasionale adviseurs te wees en om nou meer as ooit tevore betrokke en instrumenteel in besluitnemingsprosesse van vrede en nasionale veiligheid te wees. Hierdie interdissiplinêre rol is 'n uitdagende een wat baie dinamika vereis. Met Covid-19 is die belangrikheid van multilaterale diplomasie herbevestig. Die digitale rewolusie stel nie net 'n magdom meer inligting beskikbaar nie, maar vereis spoedeisende besluitneming. Kennisbestuur is die doeltreffende hantering van inligting en hulpbronne binne 'n bepaalde organisasie. Kennisdiplomasie en die toepassing van 'n kennisbestuurstelsel is belangrik omdat dit die doeltreffendheid van 'n instelling se besluitnemingsvermoë verhoog. State is nie meer die enigste internasionale rolspelers in die steeds groeiende diplomatieke toneel nie. Die aantal rolspelers wat by buitelandse aangeleenthede betrokke is en diplomasie op een of ander wyse bedryf, het die afgelope dekades geweldig toegeneem. Hoe langer die pandemie aanhou, hoe meer verander die wêreld. Gepaardgaande met die snelontwikkelende metodes om data te verwerk en te versprei, het die kwessie van kuberveiligheid eksponensieel toegeneem. So is wetenskapdiplomasie, insluitende ruimtediplomasie, ook belangrik om van kennis te neem. Die uitdaging waarvoor diplomate te staan kom, is om hierdie veranderinge oordeelkundig en met nuwe vaardighede te bestuur. Trefwoorde: binnelandse beleid; buitelandse aangeleenthede; Covid-19; digitale diplomasie; digitale tegnologie; geopolitieke verhoudings; kennisbe-stuur; kennisdiplomasie; korporatiewe diplomasie; multilaterale diplo-masie, wetenskapdiplomasie ABSTRACT There is no doubt that the world is currently experiencing turbulent times. Not even diplomacy could escape change when Covid-19 hit the world in January 2020. Old appr","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender-performance in Alba Bouwer se vertaling van die etiketboek Sybille: Sjarmante vriendin Gender performance in Alba Bouwer 's Afrikaans translation of the etiquette book Sybille: Sjarmante vriendin (Sybille: Charming friend)","authors":"Lizelle Smit, Dame Stander","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a11","url":null,"abstract":"OPSOMMING In hierdie artikel ondersoek ons Alba Bouwer se Afrikaanse vertaling van die Duitse etiketboek Charmante Freundin: Sybille (1959), waarin die outeur nie vermeld word nie, as Sybille: Sjarmante vriendin (1968). Die Afrikaanse vertaling van Sybille word nêrens vermeld in die Afrikaanse naslaanliteratuur nie en daar bestaan 'n lakune in die ontleding van die Afrikaanse etiketboekgenre. Hierdie artikel trag om 'n gesprek aan te voor oor hierdie geïgnoreerde genre en hierdie vergete teks. Internasionale teoretici van etiketboeke beklemtoon die genre se gemoeidheid met voorskriftelike gedrag vir vroue en daarom vertolk ons Sybille as 'n handleiding vir hegemoniese gender-performance. Ons gebruik Judith Butler se teorieë van genderperformatiwiteit en gender-performance om die advies wat Sybille aanbied vir haar vroulike teikenlesers te ontleed, en redeneer dan dat die spreker se voorgeskrewe vroulike ideaal ooreenstem met normatiewe hegemoniese verwagtings van vroue. Deur die lens van die deskriptiewe vertaalteorie kaats ons die teks teen die agtergrond van Afrikanernasionalistiese genderkonstruksies van die 1960's en 1970's soos geuiter deur Bouwer en ander invloedryke politieke figure. Ons identifiseer dan 'n interne teenstrydigheid in beide Bouwer en Sybille se retoriek en advies aangaande aanvaarbare vroulike gedrag en bevind dat hul albei patriargale konstruksies van vroulikheid terselfdertyd beaam en kritiseer. Ons skryf hierdie paradoksale konstruksie van vroulikheid toe aan die subtiele invloed wat die tweede feministiese beweging begin uitoefen het op genderideologie in Suid-Afrika. Trefwoorde: Alba Bouwer, Sybille: Sjarmante vriendin, etiketliteratuur, sedelitera-tuur, deskriptiewe vertaalteorie, gender-performance, genderperforma-tiwiteit, rolverdelings van Afrikanervroue in die 1960's en 1970's ABSTRACT In this article we investigate the Afrikaans journalist and children's book author Alba Bouwer 's Afrikaans translation of the anonymously published German etiquette book, Charmante Freundin: Sybille (1959), as Sybille: Sjarmante vriendin (1968). Mention of Bouwer's translation of Sybille has thus far been omitted in Afrikaans literature reference sources, a remarkable oversight given Bouwer 's magisterial canon position in Afrikaans literature and the general thoroughness that characterises sources on her writing. Furthermore, notable lacunae exist of analyses or discussions of the Afrikaans etiquette book genre. To date, Afrikaans texts in this genre have not been examined or analysed and neither has the genre as such been defined in relation to the cultural milieu of its Afrikaans readers. This article seeks to initiate a discussion of not only this unexamined genre, but also this particular neglected text and its significance regarding Bouwer 's oeuvre. International theorists of etiquette books stress the status thereof as a typically female-targeted genre preoccupied with the establishment of normative feminine values, and we ","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die probleem van historiese skuld in Suid-Afrika The problem of historical guilt in South Africa","authors":"L. Scholtz","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a4","url":null,"abstract":"OPSOMMING Historiese skuld is ten beste 'n baie problematiese konsep. Dit word duidelik geïllustreer deur die Duitse geskiedenis sedert 1945, toe die Duitsers vir hulself rekenskap moes gee van hul optrede in die jare 1933-1945.1 Wié het wát aan wié gedoen? Wie besluit oor die vraag van skuld of onskuld van wie? En wie of wat gee hulle die reg om dit te doen? Welke morele of regsbeginsels word in die proses gebruik? Ook: Hoe ver moet in die tyd teruggegaan word? Na Columbus se aankoms in die Nuwe Wêreld in 1492? Na Jan van Riebeeck se koms na die Kaap in 1652? Na die \"Scramble for Africa\" in die negentiende eeu? Die verwoesting van die Boererepublieke en die groot sterfte van die Republikeinse burgerlike bevolking in die konsentrasiekampe in 1899-1902? Die begin van apartheid in 1948? Dit is vrae wat nie so maklik beantwoord kan word nie. Tog, gebeure wat 'n sekere morele grens oorskry - soos die volksmoord op die Jode in die Tweede Wereldoorlog, die Rwandese volksmoord van 1994, of die etniese \"suiwering\" in die Balkan in dieselfde tyd - het uitgekristalliseer in 'n bepaalde konsensus oor internasionale optrede rakende menseregte in die breedste sin van die woord, en dit is geformaliseer in 'n sekere juridiese benadering oor die saak. Oor die kwessie van historiese skuld in Suid-Afrika is, in elk geval op politieke vlak, reeds besluit. Die paradigma wat die ANC aan die Waarheids-en-Versoeningskommissie (WVK) voorgehou het - wat, met sekere nuanses, basies deur die WVK aanvaar is - was dat daar twee kante in die bevrydingstryd was. Oorvereenvoudig, was dit die \"siegte ouens\" (die apartheidsregering) teen die \"goeie ouens\" (die bevrydingsbewegings, veral die ANC/SAKP). Trefwoorde: Apartheid, kommunisme, ANC/SAKP, Nazisme, Karl Jaspers, Alfred Nzo, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, pres. FW de Klerk, Afrikanernasionalisme, Lenin, Gandhi, Albert Luthuli, Kabwe, MK, Chris Hani, WVK, Joe Slovo ABSTRACT South Africans are very quick to accuse one another of having been very bad in the past. Afrikaners are accused of severe race discrimination in the form of apartheid. They are portrayed as uniquely evil, almost as bad as the Nazi's in the Second World War. At the same time, especially the ANC/SACP is accused of severe transgressions, such as terrorism in the name of a freedom struggle, supportfor a totalitarian system in the form of Marxism-Leninism, and extreme intolerance of deviant viewpoints in the liberation movement. It would be wrong to view the matter in a simplified way, as the problem of historical guilt is a complex one. In this article, the problem is, firstly, examined from an ethical perspective. Apartheid must be recognised as - when viewed from a Christian viewpoint - immoral and wrong. The policy is examined in detail, with the conclusion that, while there were fleeting moments in which things could have developed more positively, these moments were still-born. Subsequently, the accusation that apartheid was akin to Nazism is examined. It ","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transcendence, chance and happiness","authors":"A. Verhoef","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a1","url":null,"abstract":"OPSOMMING Die vraag wat in hierdie artikel ondersoek word, is hoe (lewens)geluk saamhang met transendensie en toeval. Hierdie vraag word in verband gebring met vrae oor die kern van ons bestaan as negering (iets negatiefs) en/of bevestiging (iets positiefs). Daar word aangevoer dat die spanning tussen negering en bevestiging behoue moet bly, soos wat Paul Ricoeur in sy dialektiese filosofie poog te doen. Dit is deurslaggewend, omdat hierdie dialektiek die vryheid bied om betekenis en geluk na te streef en 'n etiese lewe te lei binne die beperking van ons arbitrêre bestaan. Dan verdwyn geluk nie as 'n onmoontlike doel soos by die aanvaarding van negering nie. Dit is ook nie 'n lewe waarin ongeluk (\"on-geluk\") verdwyn, of moet verdwyn, as deel van die nastreef van geluk soos by bevestiging nie. 'n Erkenning is eerder nodig dat bevestiging sowel as negering, betekenisvolheid sowel as leegheid, geluk sowel as ongeluk, aan die kern van ons wese is. Hierdie soort dialektiese begrip van ons bestaan maak ons vry van die moontlike determinisme van transendensie en toeval. Dit bied die ruimte om geluk na te streef in die wete dat dit die volle omvang van ons menswees, ook die ongelukkige en pynlike kant daarvan, as deel van ons geluk behoue laat bly. Dit bied uiteindelik 'n nuwe verstaan van geluk as altyd gekoppel aan ongeluk en nie die vermyding, ignorering of oorkoming daarvan nie. Die artikel argumenteer dus dat, ondanks verskillende opvattings van transendensie en toeval, betekenis en geluk in hierdie immanente lewe en wêreld te vinde is en dat ons daartoe kan bydra. Trefwoorde: transendensie, geluk, toeval, negering, bevestiging, ongeluk, Paul Ricoeur ABSTRACT The question posed in this article is how happiness in life relates to transcendence and chance. This question is linked to questions about the core of our being as negation (something negative) and/or affirmation (something positive). Negation refers to the idea that the core of our being is meaningless, empty and defective. In this view, happiness becomes a futile effort to overcome unhappiness. Negation is a central theme in philosophical and theological traditions and is supported by the ideas of transcendence and/or immanence (chance). Affirmation suggests that something meaningful and happy lies at the core of our being. Then happiness is simply accepting affirmation and dismissing unhappiness. However, choosing between affirmation and denial of unhappiness means that the concept of happiness is attenuated and overlooks the creative and productive potential of negation. Instead, if, following Ricoeur, one argues that the negative can be strongly and creatively accommodated in our acceptance of our own complexity (Scott-Baumann, 2013:6), our understanding of happiness will be greatly affected. For instance, a combination of happiness and unhappiness as happiness - the dialectic of negation and affirmation - forms a direct challenge to the certainty of happiness and the despair of unhappine","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"GEDIGTE","authors":"Hennie Pleterse","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n1a17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}