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 Culture: Some Conceptual Issues 355 OLUSEGUN OLADIPO 28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion 364 SAMUEL O. IMBO 29 Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic ...
... African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues 355 OLUSEGUN OLADIPO 28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Western Scholarship on African Religion 364 SAMUEL O. IMBO 29 Islam in Africa: Examining the Notion of an African Identity within the Islamic ...
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... African philosophy and the philosophy of culture and politics. His books include Necessary Questions, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, and Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann) ...
... African philosophy and the philosophy of culture and politics. His books include Necessary Questions, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, and Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (with Amy Gutmann) ...
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... African Thought: 1860 to the Present (1999) and a number of articles on cultural citizenship, ideology, culturalism, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He was co-founder, in 1987, of the African ... Culture (1980) and Cultural ...
... African Thought: 1860 to the Present (1999) and a number of articles on cultural citizenship, ideology, culturalism, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He was co-founder, in 1987, of the African ... Culture (1980) and Cultural ...
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... African Philosophy in Search of Identity. This search is part of a general postcolonial soul-searching in Africa. Because the colonialists and related personnel perceived African culture as inferior in at least some important respects ...
... African Philosophy in Search of Identity. This search is part of a general postcolonial soul-searching in Africa. Because the colonialists and related personnel perceived African culture as inferior in at least some important respects ...
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... African philosophy to issues having some connection with traditional African thought and culture. But the modern world presents intellectual challenges which may not all admit of such a derivation, and to abstain from involvement with ...
... African philosophy to issues having some connection with traditional African thought and culture. But the modern world presents intellectual challenges which may not all admit of such a derivation, and to abstain from involvement with ...
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