The African philosophy reader : a text with readings /

Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coetzee, P. H. (Pieter Hendrik), 1949-, Roux, A. P. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Philosophy, African.
Philosophie africaine.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy, African
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Some African cultural concepts / S. Biko
  • Are there cultural universals? / K. Wiredu
  • Ubuntu culture and participatory management / E.D. Prinsloo
  • What is African philosophy? / D.N. Kaphagawani
  • Sage philosophy / H.O. Oruku
  • Ethnophilosophy and its critics / K.A. Appiah
  • Ènìyàn: the Yoruba concept of a person / S. Ghadegesin
  • African conceptions of personhood and intellectual identities / D.N. Kaphagawani
  • The concept of cause in African thought / G.S. Sogolo
  • On decolonizing African religions / K. Wiredu
  • Logic and rationality / G.S. Sogolo
  • The concept of truth in the Akan language / K. Wiredu
  • Themes in a Chewa epistemology / D.N. Kaphagawani
  • Old Gods, new worlds / K.A. Appiah
  • Individuality, community, and the moral order / S. Ghadegesin
  • The moral foundations of an African culture / K. Wiredu
  • Person and community in African thought / K. Gyekye
  • The definition of Black consciousness / S. Biko
  • Outlawing racism in philosophy: on race and philosophy / M.P. More
  • Democracy and consensus in African traditional politics: a plea for a non-party polity / K. Wiredu
  • Traditional African aesthetics: a philosophical perspective / I.C. Onyewuenyi
  • Morality, art, and African philosophy: a response to Wiredu / P. English & N. Steele-Hamme
  • Is primitive art "art"? / G. Blocker
  • On the distinction between modern and traditional African aesthetics / G. Blocker
  • Negritude and African socialism / L.S. Senghor.

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