Bernard Kripke
Bernard Kripke is a fictional character. He is imagined as a retired professor of philosophy at UCT.
On The fall of the University of Cape Town: A further discussion
2022-01-18"On any given issue, how should we weigh up the different issues at stake? This is where we need arguments, including evidence. We need, in other words, to reason our way, as best we can, through the issues. That is exactly what I was doing in the book."
On The fall of the University of Cape Town by David Benatar: a discussion
2022-01-11"Even if it doesn’t feel like we live in a rights-based constitutional democracy with equal access to the law and to the free exchange of ideas, which is what universities are for, we have no option but to continue to believe and act as if we do. Perhaps that explains his determination to hold on to the idea that people can and should do better. It’s part of his belief in the university as an institution."