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Rafael Winkler is a full professor in the philosophy department at the University of Johannesburg
Unlike past forms, modern autocracy offers stability, encourages scepticism about political alternatives and causes withdrawal from civic engagement
Why hate speech should not be banned and why there is no way of dealing with it — except more speech
Andrew Tate’s exaggerated masculinity reveals the fragility of traditional patriarchy, which has lost its social weight
When encountering those who reject our fundamental values, we struggle to perceive them as fully human
Rooted in disembodied online life, it merely inverts current hierarchies and fuels societal division
Views on human life’s sacred dignity are often skewed by political beliefs and emotional attachment to values
The media was in shock after the televised public humiliation of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. US President Donald Trump and Vice-president JD Vance…
If democracy is to be safeguarded, it must unlearn virtue signalling and cancel culture and learn to disagree
We are born into a world of forced choices and the feeling that something is missing haunts us
Our collective identity has once again arrived at a seminal point in our history
In late capitalist societies there is too much choice and our freedom is making us anxious
To identify contemporary forms of oppression with the use of a dated metaphor perpetuates current forms of oppression
Professor Rafael Winkler unravels several philosophies of the age that lie behind an anti-slavery 19th century lithograph
Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is…
Our egos are shaped by who we identify with and we rank those categories with whom we identify. Selfishness and self-interest are in the interest of these others we identify;…
I recently edited a special issue for a journal on sexuality, capitalism and Africa. It was based on the topic that served as the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa’s 5th…
The tone of scientific reports on the climate crisis is religious yet the cause is a capitalist view of natural resources
Companies are trying to build community among workers. But this can have sinister side-effects
The image of the iconic church on fire interrupted the French nation’s link to its heritage and history
In economic terms, a decision to give up everything in return for nothing is irrational but in human terms it can lead to irreversible change
