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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... HALLEN 7 Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid MABOGO P. MORE 8 Philosophy in North Africa MOURAD WAHBA 9 The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century CLAUDE ...
... HALLEN 7 Philosophy in South Africa Under and After Apartheid MABOGO P. MORE 8 Philosophy in North Africa MOURAD WAHBA 9 The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century CLAUDE ...
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... HALLEN Ifa ́: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions OLU ́FE ́MI TA ́I ́WO` Toward a Theory of Destiny SEGUN GBADEGESIN On the Normative Conception of a Person IFEANYI A. MENKITI African ...
... HALLEN Ifa ́: An Account of a Divination System and Some Concluding Epistemological Questions OLU ́FE ́MI TA ́I ́WO` Toward a Theory of Destiny SEGUN GBADEGESIN On the Normative Conception of a Person IFEANYI A. MENKITI African ...
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... Hallen is Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied at Carleton College and Boston University. He has taught at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo ...
... Hallen is Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied at Carleton College and Boston University. He has taught at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo ...
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... Hallen for helping me with this work in every conceivable way from conception to completion. His lengthy survey of contemporary Anglophone philosophy (see chapter 6), which, more than any of the entries, gives this work the stamp of a ...
... Hallen for helping me with this work in every conceivable way from conception to completion. His lengthy survey of contemporary Anglophone philosophy (see chapter 6), which, more than any of the entries, gives this work the stamp of a ...
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... Hallen's survey of contemporary Anglophone African philosophy in this volume, chapter 6). Tempels formed the impression, which in the circles in which he moved was quite revolutionary, that those African peoples actually had a coherent ...
... Hallen's survey of contemporary Anglophone African philosophy in this volume, chapter 6). Tempels formed the impression, which in the circles in which he moved was quite revolutionary, that those African peoples actually had a coherent ...
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