Volume 1, November 2021

This is the first ever edition of the Stellenbosch Socratic Journal. It contains five articles authored by students studying under the Stellenbosch University Department of Philosophy. The students are at different stages of their academic careers and their articles cover a variety of topics.

Foreword | Josie Roux

“Calm Down, You’ll Make it Worse”: Nussbaum’s Transition-Anger as Affective Injustice | Josie Roux

Knowing Good, Doing Bad: Understanding Environmental Ethics from an Aristotelian Perspective | James Smith

The Subjectivity of Sex(ual Inclusion) | Shirah Theron

The problem as point of departure: The Pyrrhonian aporia, the Derridean perhaps and keeping Philosophical Counselling in the realm of philosophy | Jaco Louw

Art as a Realisation of Deconstruction: A Deconstruction of PragerU’s video ‘Why is Modern Art so Bad’ and an investigation into how art embodies principles of deconstruction | Jurgens Johannes Pieterse