Phronimon (2009) Vol. 10 No. 2

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Ways of resisting empire and alternatives to empire : comparing ancient and modern options
(2009) Strijdom, Johan M.
The aim of this paper will be to offer a comparison of violent and non-violent types of resistance amongst Jews and early Christians to the early Roman Empire on the one hand, and similar forms of resistance to modern imperialism on the other. In addition, systemic alternatives of social justice offered in antiquity (by philosophers, Jews and early Christians) and modernity (by liberal and more radical, postcolonial thinkers) to imperial oppression will be compared and assessed.
Receptions of Plato in the english renaissance : spenser on love and beauty
(2009) Dambe, Sira
In this paper, I propose to examine some of the ways in which Plato’s elaboration of transcendent love penetrated and influenced English Renaissance poetry, specifically Edmund Spenser’s, and to point out how certain accretions from Renaissance Neoplatonism may be said to have filtered into a specific literary expression, the ‘Hymne’. I shall attempt to offer a glimpse into the artistry of a poet who met the considerable challenge of encompassing philosophical doctrines into poetic structures and to show how the remarkable blend of apparently divergent beliefs, as presented by ancient and modern schools of thought, provided a rich array of ideas that could be exploited in poetical terms.