A Companion to African PhilosophyKwasi Wiredu This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages.
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... African philosophers did not start with an absolute tabula rasa, it was because some relevant materials were available in the departments of anthropology and in those concerned with the study of religions. We may note examples like ...
... African philosophers did not start with an absolute tabula rasa, it was because some relevant materials were available in the departments of anthropology and in those concerned with the study of religions. We may note examples like ...
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... religious. Oruka's work in this area confirms a belief which the present writer, for one, has entertained right from the beginning, that among our traditional ... African Religions and Philosophy (1990). The issue concerns 8 KWASI WIREDU.
... religious. Oruka's work in this area confirms a belief which the present writer, for one, has entertained right from the beginning, that among our traditional ... African Religions and Philosophy (1990). The issue concerns 8 KWASI WIREDU.
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Kwasi Wiredu. in his African Religions and Philosophy (1990). The issue concerns his claims as to the shortness of African prevision. In an exceedingly interesting discussion of what he called the African conception of time, Mbiti ...
Kwasi Wiredu. in his African Religions and Philosophy (1990). The issue concerns his claims as to the shortness of African prevision. In an exceedingly interesting discussion of what he called the African conception of time, Mbiti ...
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... African Language,'' Quest: An International African Journal of Philosophy, 4(2), December. p'Bitek, Okot (1970) African Religions in Western Scholarship (Nairobi, Kenya: East African Literature Bureau). Danquah, J. B. (1944) The Akan ...
... African Language,'' Quest: An International African Journal of Philosophy, 4(2), December. p'Bitek, Okot (1970) African Religions in Western Scholarship (Nairobi, Kenya: East African Literature Bureau). Danquah, J. B. (1944) The Akan ...
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... African Philosophy, rev. edn. (Stanford: Stanford University Press). Herskovits, M. J. (1938) Dahomey, An Ancient West African ... Religions and Philosophy, 2nd edn. (London: Heinemann; 1st edn. 1969). Menkiti, Ifeanyi (1984) ''Person and ...
... African Philosophy, rev. edn. (Stanford: Stanford University Press). Herskovits, M. J. (1938) Dahomey, An Ancient West African ... Religions and Philosophy, 2nd edn. (London: Heinemann; 1st edn. 1969). Menkiti, Ifeanyi (1984) ''Person and ...
Contents
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PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES | 261 |
PART III LOGIC EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS | 283 |
PART IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION | 353 |
PART V ETHICS AND AESTHETICS | 385 |
PART VI POLITICS | 433 |
PART VII SPECIAL TOPICS | 527 |
Index | 570 |
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Acholi Acholi language aesthetic African culture African philosophy African Religions African societies African traditional Akan Akan language Amo’s apartheid argued Bantu philosophy belief Chewa Christian claim colonial concept contemporary African context critical decolonization democracy democratic destiny discourse divine Egyptian epistemology ethics ethnophilosophy European example existence fact Fanon Frantz Fanon Ghana global Gyekye Hallen Hountondji human rights ibid idea identity Ifá Igbo ikenga important indigenous individual intellectual Islamic issue Kagame knowledge Kwame Kwame Gyekye Kwasi Wiredu language liberal liberal democracy literature logic London Maat Mbiti means metaphysical mind modern moral Nairobi nature Nigeria Okot one’s Oruka person philoso physical political practice principle problem question reason religious role sages scholars Senghor sense social Sodipo South Africa Soyinka spirit Tempels theory things thinkers thinking thought tion traditional African truth University Press violence Walda Heywat Western word Yoruba Zera Yacob