D F M Strauss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D F M Strauss |
| GIVEN NAMES | D F M |
| FAMILY NAME | Strauss |
| SIGNATURE | STRAUSS D F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Department of Philosophy , University of the Orange Free State , Bloemfontein , South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Place of the State in a Differentiated Society
What used to be called primitive societies may best be designated as traditional societies or as undifferentiated societies. While focusing on the place of the state within a differentiated society, it is meaningful to account for the differences between differentiated societies and undifferentiated societies, because such an analysis will help us to advance important systematic distinctions. Usually, the extended family (Grossfamilie) is seen as…
Bernays, Dooyeweerd and Gödel – the remarkable convergence in their reflections on the foundations of mathematics
In spite of differences the thought of Bernays, Dooyeweerd and Gödel evinces a remarkable convergence. What is furthermore similar is the recognition of what is primitive (and indefinable) as well as the account of the coherence of what is unique, such as when Gödel observes something quasi-spatial in the character of sets. It is shown that Dooye-weerd’s theory of modal aspects provides a philosophical framework that exceeds his own restrictive u…
Normativity I – The Dialectical Legacy
With Habermas it is important to realize that one has to differentiate between moral and non-moral (a-moral) norms, which is different from what is immoral. However, since the Renaissance reflections on human freedom were caught up in the dialectic of necessity (nature) and freedom. A brief sketch is given of the development of this dialectic within modern philosophy – as it was manifested in the thought of Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Locke, Berk…
Do we really comprehend time
Traditionally the the problem of time considered the contrast between time (associated with succession) and eternity (associated with simultaneity) (from Parmenides, and via Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Kierkegaard up to Wittgenstein and what theologians presuppose without being aware of it). It may appear as if time measurement can help us to understand what time is. However, the historical development of time measurement alternatively explor…
The (social) construction of the world – at the crossroads of Christianity and Humanism
In early modem philosophy the motive of logical creation emerged in reaction to the Greek-Medieval legacy of a realistic metaphysics. The dominant nominalistic trends of thought since Thomas Hobbes and Inimanuel Kant explored its rationalistic implications. The latter drew the radical (humanistic) conclusion that the laws of nature are present in human thought a priori (i.e. before all experience). The irrationalistic side of nominalism emphasize…
Justice, legal validity and the force of law with special reference to Derrida, Dooyeweerd and Habermas
Philosophy, political philosophy and legal philosophy are all concerned with issues of justice and the validity of law (also known as the force of law). These two problem areas are discussed against the background of the intersection of traditional theories of natural law and legal positivism, mediated by the contribution of the historical school. In addition the influence of the two neo-Kantian schools of thought (Baden and Marburg) required att…
Did Darwin initially develop a theory of evolution in the biological sense of the word
Darwin’s physicalist orientation reacts to a long-standing vitalistic mode of thought of idealistic morphology and should be assessed by taking other 19th and 20th centuries biological schools of thought into account - trends that each emphasised different modes of explanation, such as mechanicism, physicalism, holism, neo-vitalism, organismic biology and pan-psychism.Darwin’s acceptance of “universal laws of nature” is consonant with Leyll’s vie…
The Transition from Greco-Roman and Medieval to Modern Political Theories
The ideal of an all-embracing education of a person in order to become a good citizen—as it was shaped in the Paideia ideal of classical Greek culture— underwent important transformations during the medieval and early modern period. This article starts with the Greco-Roman conceptions of the Stoa, Cicero and Seneca and subsequently focuses on the split present in the development of medieval views—both within the domain of theoretical reflection a…
Politeia
From the perspective of contemporary Western societies an awareness of democratic practices almost seems self-evident. Yet contemplating the nature of human society and of the state not only took shape in a different era of Western civilization since the initial conceptions found in ancient Greece did not really succeed in transcending a totalitarian idea of the Politeia. The cultural–historical setting of ancient Greece provides the indispensabl…
Kant and modern physics—The synthetic a priori and the distinction between modal function and entity
In order to appreciate the meaning of Kant's concern for the synthetic a priori a distinction needs to be made between the dimension of functional aspects of reality, exhibiting universal (modal) laws (holding for all possible entities), and the dimension of entities characterized by specified type-laws (only holding for a limited class of entities). In particular attention is given to some properties of the first four cosmic aspects/modes: the n…
Humankind, nature and the New Journalism
Onderliggende eenheid binne sosiologiese paradigma-verskeidenheid
Underlying unity within the diversity of sociological paradigms? The focus of this article is on the seemingly disintegrating effect of diverging theoretical ‘paradigms’ in theoretical Sociology. In order to reverse this image some recent authors are taken as a starting point for a search into an underlying order-diversity, which may not only serve to understand these diverse approaches better but which may at once provide us with an insight into…
Sisteemteorie en die sosiologie/Systems theory and sociology
Modern systems theory is characterized by its concern for structural wholes which are constituted by interacting elements or parts. Although the implied whole/part relation is useful wherever one can apply it meaningfully, systems theory tried to expand the use of this notion beyond the limits of its tenable use. The primary spatial meaning of the whole/part relation must be kept in mind if one tries to expand its use to other modal aspects and t…
Sisteemteorie en die sosiologie
Systems theory and sociology. Modern systems theory is characterized by its concern for structural wholes which are constituted by interacting elements or parts. Although the implied whole/part relation is useful wherever one can apply it meaningfully, systems theory tried to expand the use of this notion beyond the limits of its tenable use. The primary spatial meaning of the whole/part relation must be kept in mind if one tries to expand its us…
Philosophy and Sociology
Politeia
From the perspective of contemporary Western societies an awareness of democratic practices almost seems self-evident. Yet contemplating the nature of human society and of the state not only took shape in a different era of Western civilization since the initial conceptions found in ancient Greece did not really succeed in transcending a totalitarian idea of the Politeia. The cultural–historical setting of ancient Greece provides the indispensabl…
Do we really comprehend time
Traditionally the the problem of time considered the contrast between time (associated with succession) and eternity (associated with simultaneity) (from Parmenides, and via Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Kierkegaard up to Wittgenstein and what theologians presuppose without being aware of it). It may appear as if time measurement can help us to understand what time is. However, the historical development of time measurement alternatively explor…
The (social) construction of the world – at the crossroads of Christianity and Humanism
In early modem philosophy the motive of logical creation emerged in reaction to the Greek-Medieval legacy of a realistic metaphysics. The dominant nominalistic trends of thought since Thomas Hobbes and Inimanuel Kant explored its rationalistic implications. The latter drew the radical (humanistic) conclusion that the laws of nature are present in human thought a priori (i.e. before all experience). The irrationalistic side of nominalism emphasize…
Philosophy and Sociology
Sisteemteorie en die sosiologie/Systems theory and sociology
Modern systems theory is characterized by its concern for structural wholes which are constituted by interacting elements or parts. Although the implied whole/part relation is useful wherever one can apply it meaningfully, systems theory tried to expand the use of this notion beyond the limits of its tenable use. The primary spatial meaning of the whole/part relation must be kept in mind if one tries to expand its use to other modal aspects and t…
Sisteemteorie en die sosiologie
Systems theory and sociology. Modern systems theory is characterized by its concern for structural wholes which are constituted by interacting elements or parts. Although the implied whole/part relation is useful wherever one can apply it meaningfully, systems theory tried to expand the use of this notion beyond the limits of its tenable use. The primary spatial meaning of the whole/part relation must be kept in mind if one tries to expand its us…
Onderliggende eenheid binne sosiologiese paradigma-verskeidenheid
Underlying unity within the diversity of sociological paradigms? The focus of this article is on the seemingly disintegrating effect of diverging theoretical ‘paradigms’ in theoretical Sociology. In order to reverse this image some recent authors are taken as a starting point for a search into an underlying order-diversity, which may not only serve to understand these diverse approaches better but which may at once provide us with an insight into…
Humankind, nature and the New Journalism
Kant and modern physics—The synthetic a priori and the distinction between modal function and entity
In order to appreciate the meaning of Kant's concern for the synthetic a priori a distinction needs to be made between the dimension of functional aspects of reality, exhibiting universal (modal) laws (holding for all possible entities), and the dimension of entities characterized by specified type-laws (only holding for a limited class of entities). In particular attention is given to some properties of the first four cosmic aspects/modes: the n…
Politeia
From the perspective of contemporary Western societies an awareness of democratic practices almost seems self-evident. Yet contemplating the nature of human society and of the state not only took shape in a different era of Western civilization since the initial conceptions found in ancient Greece did not really succeed in transcending a totalitarian idea of the Politeia. The cultural–historical setting of ancient Greece provides the indispensabl…
Did Darwin initially develop a theory of evolution in the biological sense of the word
Darwin’s physicalist orientation reacts to a long-standing vitalistic mode of thought of idealistic morphology and should be assessed by taking other 19th and 20th centuries biological schools of thought into account - trends that each emphasised different modes of explanation, such as mechanicism, physicalism, holism, neo-vitalism, organismic biology and pan-psychism.Darwin’s acceptance of “universal laws of nature” is consonant with Leyll’s vie…
The Transition from Greco-Roman and Medieval to Modern Political Theories
The ideal of an all-embracing education of a person in order to become a good citizen—as it was shaped in the Paideia ideal of classical Greek culture— underwent important transformations during the medieval and early modern period. This article starts with the Greco-Roman conceptions of the Stoa, Cicero and Seneca and subsequently focuses on the split present in the development of medieval views—both within the domain of theoretical reflection a…
The (social) construction of the world – at the crossroads of Christianity and Humanism
In early modem philosophy the motive of logical creation emerged in reaction to the Greek-Medieval legacy of a realistic metaphysics. The dominant nominalistic trends of thought since Thomas Hobbes and Inimanuel Kant explored its rationalistic implications. The latter drew the radical (humanistic) conclusion that the laws of nature are present in human thought a priori (i.e. before all experience). The irrationalistic side of nominalism emphasize…
Justice, legal validity and the force of law with special reference to Derrida, Dooyeweerd and Habermas
Philosophy, political philosophy and legal philosophy are all concerned with issues of justice and the validity of law (also known as the force of law). These two problem areas are discussed against the background of the intersection of traditional theories of natural law and legal positivism, mediated by the contribution of the historical school. In addition the influence of the two neo-Kantian schools of thought (Baden and Marburg) required att…
Do we really comprehend time
Traditionally the the problem of time considered the contrast between time (associated with succession) and eternity (associated with simultaneity) (from Parmenides, and via Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Kierkegaard up to Wittgenstein and what theologians presuppose without being aware of it). It may appear as if time measurement can help us to understand what time is. However, the historical development of time measurement alternatively explor…
Bernays, Dooyeweerd and Gödel – the remarkable convergence in their reflections on the foundations of mathematics
In spite of differences the thought of Bernays, Dooyeweerd and Gödel evinces a remarkable convergence. What is furthermore similar is the recognition of what is primitive (and indefinable) as well as the account of the coherence of what is unique, such as when Gödel observes something quasi-spatial in the character of sets. It is shown that Dooye-weerd’s theory of modal aspects provides a philosophical framework that exceeds his own restrictive u…
Normativity I – The Dialectical Legacy
With Habermas it is important to realize that one has to differentiate between moral and non-moral (a-moral) norms, which is different from what is immoral. However, since the Renaissance reflections on human freedom were caught up in the dialectic of necessity (nature) and freedom. A brief sketch is given of the development of this dialectic within modern philosophy – as it was manifested in the thought of Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Locke, Berk…
The Place of the State in a Differentiated Society
What used to be called primitive societies may best be designated as traditional societies or as undifferentiated societies. While focusing on the place of the state within a differentiated society, it is meaningful to account for the differences between differentiated societies and undifferentiated societies, because such an analysis will help us to advance important systematic distinctions. Usually, the extended family (Grossfamilie) is seen as…
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