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  1. Recent work on the meaning of “life’s meaning”: Should we change the philosophical discourse?

    Article • Human Affairs, October 2019, De Gruyter

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  2. Neither Parochial nor Cosmopolitan: Cultural Instruction in the Light of an African Communal Ethic

    Article • Education as Change, July 2019, UNISA Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  3. What science means for postmodernist epistemology and the philosophy of education

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  4. An African Theory of Good Leadership

    Article • African Journal of Business Ethics, November 2018, Stellenbosch University

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  5. Addiction in the light of African values: Undermining vitality and community

    Article • Bioethics News, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  6. God’s Role in a Meaningful Life: New Reflections from Tim Mawson

    Article • European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, September 2018, Verein zur Forderung der Fachzeitschrift European Journal for Philosophy of Religion

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  7. 4. Cultural Pluralism and Media Ethics: Theorizing in a Globalized World of Difference

    Article • September 2018, De Gruyter

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  8. Advancing the Philosophy of Medicine: Towards New Topics and Sources

    Article • The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, May 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  9. Medicine without Cure?: A Cluster Analysis of the Nature of Medicine

    Article • The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, May 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  10. Ends and means of transitional justice

    Article • Journal of Global Ethics, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  11. An African Theory of the Point of Higher Education: Communion as an Alternative to Autonomy, Truth, and Citizenship

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  12. How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  13. Neutrality, Partiality, and Meaning in Life

    Article • De Ethica A Journal of Philosophical Theological and Applied Ethics, December 2017, Linkoping University Electronic Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  14. How to deal with neglected tropical diseases in the light of an African ethic

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, November 2017, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  15. What Can the Capabilities Approach Learn from an Ubuntu Ethic? A Relational Approach to Development Theory

    Article • World Development, September 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  16. How the West Was One: The Western as individualist, the African as communitarian

    Article • July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  17. Ancillary care obligations in light of an African bioethic: from entrustment to communion

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  18. Replacing Development: An Afro-Communal Approach to Global Justice

    Article • Philosophical Papers, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  19. Jus interruptus bellum: the ethics of truce-making

    Article • Journal of Global Ethics, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  20. African Philosophy as a Multidisciplinary Discourse

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  21. An Overview of African Ethics

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  22. Confucianism and African Philosophy

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  23. Duties Toward Animals versus Rights to Culture: An African Approach to the Conflict in Terms of Communion

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  24. Managerialism as Anti-Social

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  25. Meaning in Life

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  26. Toward an African Moral Theory (Revised Edition)

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  27. Values in China as Compared to Africa: Two Conceptions of Harmony

    Article • Philosophy East and West, January 2017, Project Muse

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  28. Teaching African philosophy alongside Western philosophy: Some advice about topics and texts

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  29. Précis of Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study

    Article • European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, June 2016, Verein zur Forderung der Fachzeitschrift European Journal for Philosophy of Religion

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  30. The Nature of Poverty as an Inhuman Condition

    Article • Res Publica, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  31. Confucian Harmony from an African Perspective

    Article • African and Asian Studies, May 2016, Brill

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  32. Meaning in Life as the Right Metric

    Article • Society, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  33. Recent philosophical approaches to social protection: From capability to ubuntu

    Article • Global Social Policy, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  34. An Ubuntu-based Evaluation of the South African State's Responses to Marikana: Where's the Reconciliation?

    Article • Politikon, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  35. Reasons of Meaning to Abhor the End of the Human Race

    Article • Faith and Philosophy, January 2016, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  36. The Nature of Poverty as Inhuman

    Article • International Journal of Applied Philosophy, January 2016, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  37. The Proper Aim of Therapy: Subjective Well-Being, Objective Goodness, or a Meaningful Life?

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  38. Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  39. An African Theory of Social Justice

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  40. Is Life’s Meaning Ultimately Unthinkable?: Guy Bennett-Hunter on the Ineffable

    Article • Philosophia, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  41. The politics of philosophy in Africa: A conversation

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  42. Ubuntuand the value of self-expression in the mass media

    Article • Communicatio, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  43. African Ethics and Journalism Ethics: News and Opinion in Light ofUbuntu

    Article • Journal of Media Ethics, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  44. Emergent Issues in African Philosophy

    Article • Philosophia Africana, January 2015, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  45. How the West Was One: The Western as individualist, the African as communitarian

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  46. Ubuntu: Curating the Archive

    Article • Philosophical Papers, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  47. Gross National Happiness: A Philosophical Appraisal

    Article • Ethics and Social Welfare, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  48. Fundamental conditions of human existence as the ground of life's meaning: reply to Landau

    Article • Religious Studies, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  49. Harmonizing global ethics in the future: a proposal to add south and east to west

    Article • Journal of Global Ethics, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  50. Questioning South Africa’s ‘genetic link’ requirement for surrogacy

    Article • South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, April 2014, Health and Medical Publishing Group

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  51. Just the beginning for ubuntu: reply to Matolino and Kwindingwi

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  52. Life Worth Living

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  53. Ubuntu: The Good Life

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  54. Vitality, Community, and Human Dignity in Africa

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  55. Meaning in Life

    Article • November 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  56. African Values, Human Rights and Group Rights: A Philosophical Foundation for the Banjul Charter

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  57. The Ethics of Swearing: The Implications of Moral Theories for Oath-Breaking in Economic Contexts

    Article • Review of Social Economy, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  58. The western ethic of care or an Afro-communitarian ethic? Specifying the right relational morality

    Article • Journal of Global Ethics, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  59. African Ethics

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  60. Meaning in Life as the Aim of Psychotherapy: A Hypothesis

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  61. “The Meaning of Life Lies in the Search”

    Article • Social Theory and Practice, January 2013, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  62. The Meaningful and the Worthwhile: Clarifying the Relationships

    Article • The Philosophical Forum, November 2012, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  63. Communitarian Ethics and Work-Based Education: Some African Perspectives

    Article • July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  64. Contemporary Anti-Natalism, Featuring Benatar’sBetter Never to Have Been

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  65. Developing African Political Philosophy

    Article • Philosophia Africana, January 2012, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  66. ‘Giving the World a More Human Face’—Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  67. CONFUCIANISM AND UBUNTU: REFLECTIONS ON A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHINESE AND AFRICAN TRADITIONS

    Article • Journal of Chinese Philosophy, December 2011, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  68. African Conceptions of Human Dignity: Vitality and Community as the Ground of Human Rights

    Article • Human Rights Review, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  69. An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism

    Article • Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  70. Are Lives Worth Creating?

    Article • Philosophical Papers, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  71. Contemporary African Philosophy

    Article • June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  72. Accountability in higher education: A comprehensive analytical framework

    Article • Theory and Research in Education, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  73. Confucianism and Ubuntu: Reflections On a Dialogue Between Chinese and African Traditions

    Article • Journal of Chinese Philosophy, March 2011, Brill

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  74. Human Rights: African Perspectives

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  75. Punishment

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  76. AN AFRICAN THEORY OF BIOETHICS: REPLY TO MACPHERSON AND MACKLIN

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, November 2010, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  77. The good, the true, and the beautiful: toward a unified account of great meaning in life

    Article • Religious Studies, November 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  78. A Dilemma Regarding Academic Freedom and Public Accountability in Higher Education

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, November 2010, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  79. Recent work in African ethics

    Article • Journal of Moral Education, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  80. The African ethic ofUbuntu/Botho: implications for research on morality

    Article • Journal of Moral Education, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  81. AFRICAN AND WESTERN MORAL THEORIES IN A BIOETHICAL CONTEXT

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, April 2010, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  82. For the Sake of the Friendship: Relationality and Relationship as Grounds of Beneficence

    Article • Theoria, January 2010, Berghahn Journals

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  83. Human Dignity, Capital Punishment, and an African Moral Theory: Toward a New Philosophy of Human Rights

    Article • Journal of Human Rights, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  84. Higher Education, Knowledge for Its Own Sake, and an African Moral Theory

    Article • Studies in Philosophy and Education, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  85. The Final Ends of Higher Education in Light of an African Moral Theory

    Article • Journal of Philosophy of Education, May 2009, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  86. The Positive Function of Evil

    Article • January 2009, Nature

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  87. Love and Emotional Reactions to Necessary Evils

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  88. Censure Theory Still Best Accounts for Punishment of the Guilty: Reply to Montague

    Article • Philosophia, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  89. RESPECT FOR PERSONS PERMITS PRIORITIZING TREATMENT FOR HIVAIDS

    Article • Developing World Bioethics, August 2008, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  90. The Nature of Reactive Practices: Exploring Strawson’s Expressivism

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  91. God's purpose as irrelevant to life's meaning: reply to Affolter

    Article • Religious Studies, November 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  92. Toward an African Moral Theory

    Article • Journal of Political Philosophy, September 2007, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  93. New Developments in the Meaning of Life

    Article • Philosophy Compass, March 2007, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  94. How To Reconcile Liberal Politics with Retributive Punishment

    Article • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  95. The Motivation for “Toward an African Moral Theory”

    Article • South African Journal of Philosophy, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  96. Baier and Cottingham on the meaning of life

    Article • Disputatio, November 2005, De Gruyter

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  97. Introduction

    Article • Philosophical Papers, November 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  98. Open Perfectionism and Global Justice

    Article • Theoria, January 2004, Berghahn Journals

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  99. The Justice of Crime Prevention: The Case of South Africa

    Article • Theoria, January 2004, Berghahn Journals

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  100. The Immortality Requirement for Life's meaning

    Article • Ratio, June 2003, Wiley

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  101. Utilitarianism and the Meaning of Life

    Article • Utilitas, March 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  102. Recent Work on the Meaning of Life

    Article • Ethics, July 2002, University of Chicago Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  103. The Reasonable and the Moral

    Article • Social Theory and Practice, January 2002, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  104. Could God's purpose be the source of life's meaning?

    Article • Religious Studies, September 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  105. Censure Theory and Intuitions about Punishment

    Article • Law and Philosophy, July 2000, CrossRef Test Account

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  106. Arbitrariness, Justice, and Respect

    Article • Social Theory and Practice, January 2000, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  107. Reason, Politics, and Contractualism

    Article • Inquiry Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, January 1998, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  108. Dignity in the ubuntu tradition

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Prof Thaddeus Metz

  109. Koheleth and the meaning of life

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof Thaddeus Metz