Francois Maritz
“The current education system is truly bankrupt”
Our education is based on the wrong ideas. As a result, it produces passive knowledge copycats instead of creative, curious people. In...
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FRANCOIS MARITZ
Francois Maritz is a pastor at the Dutch Reformed Church Hayfields in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
He obtained his Bachelors degree in Theology, as well as his Honours in Philosophy, Masters in Divinities and Masters in Spirituality at the University of the Freestate in Bloemfontein, South Africa. His research centered around using critical theory to analise the Dutch Reformed Church from a systems perspective.
Francois is currently pastoring in Pietermaritzburg, as well as actively thinking about the future of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa.
He loves working with diverse groups, where difference is embraced, and fresh forward thinking is celebrated.
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Om die fort te hou
Op September 1953 vertel “Dawie” in Die Burger ‘n storie wat aan hom gestuur is deur “’n gryse kollega vol ou wysheid waaruit die...
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Armblankes en Strydlustige Werkers
Die armblankevraagstuk was die dringendste maatskaplike krises in die blanke politiek gedurende die eerste drie of vier dekades van die...
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Die Nihilisme: Die Dramaturgiese Gemeenskap
Die Middeleeuse Gemeenskap As daar na die middeleeue gekyk word in verhouding met die (post)modernisme, is daar altyd die vraag waar kan...
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Die Nihilisme: Inleiding
Inleiding “In die plek van die dialogiese gedruis wat die werklikheid eens was, tree nou die onpeilbare stilte van die nihil. Ons verwys...
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A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor
Introduction Taylor begin sy inleiding deur te noem dat ‘n sekulere samelewing ‘n samelewing is waarin jy voluit kan deelneem sonder om...
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The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe
Body and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe Sociological Theories of State Formation: Review and...
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Stephen Seminar Number 5: Modes of Mind: Does Society have an IQ?
This past Wednesday felt like an episode of Fringe playing out before my eyes with the Speaker showing similarities with Walter Bishop....
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Stephen Seminar Number 4: Political Authority
Today the fourth Stephen Seminar kicked of with a bit of confusion. The expected speaker could not attend, but still we went forth to...
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Stephen Seminar Number 3: Pessimism of the diagnosis and optimism of prescription.
Today the Stephen Seminar was hosted by two speakers on African Philosophy. The first speaker went on to talk about truth and that an...
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Stephen Seminar Number 1: Richard Chemaly on ‘Facts and Moral Landscape’
In this following number of weeks I will be blogging about a new Series of Seminars that the Department of Philosophy at the University...
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