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The ink of the scholars : reflections on philosophy in Africa /

What are the issues discussed today by African philosophers? Four important topics are identified here as important objects of philosophical reflection on the African continent. One is the question of ontology in relation to African religions and aesthetics. Another is the question of time and, in p...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Diagne, Souleymane Bachir (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Francés
Publié: Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2016]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Machine generated contents note: Force of Living
  • Bantu Philosophy: A Contradictory Text
  • Ontology of Living Force
  • Languages and Translation
  • Proof by Aesthetics
  • Time we Need
  • That Time we Call African
  • Words to Speak of Time
  • To Foresee or to Anticipate
  • Speech and Ink
  • Sense of Urgency and the Passage to Writing
  • Philosophy and Orality
  • Meanings of Timbuktu
  • Socialisms and Democracy
  • African Path to Socialism According to Nyerere
  • Socialism, Consciencism, Spiritualism and Secularism
  • Senghor and Humanist Socialism
  • Democratic Turn and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
  • Conclusion: Lessons from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.