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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... Context FRANCIS M. DENG The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid PIETER DUVENAGE The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections JOHN MURUNGI SPECIAL TOPICS Knowledge as a Development Issue PAULIN J ...
... Context FRANCIS M. DENG The Politics of Memory and Forgetting After Apartheid PIETER DUVENAGE The Question of an African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections JOHN MURUNGI SPECIAL TOPICS Knowledge as a Development Issue PAULIN J ...
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... context usually existed in an oral rather than a written tradition of thought. The best way of gaining information about those ideas seemed to be by interviewing living repositories of African world views and also piecing together ...
... context usually existed in an oral rather than a written tradition of thought. The best way of gaining information about those ideas seemed to be by interviewing living repositories of African world views and also piecing together ...
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... context of origin. And this relativity is intended to exclude the possibility of critical evaluation from the standpoint of another time, place, or context. Relativism is, in itself, an issue of great interest. In contemporary African ...
... context of origin. And this relativity is intended to exclude the possibility of critical evaluation from the standpoint of another time, place, or context. Relativism is, in itself, an issue of great interest. In contemporary African ...
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... context?'' One answer is that to say of a concept that it is intelligible, or of a proposition that it is true, or of an argument that it is valid is to say nothing more nor less than that it is used or accepted within a given culture ...
... context?'' One answer is that to say of a concept that it is intelligible, or of a proposition that it is true, or of an argument that it is valid is to say nothing more nor less than that it is used or accepted within a given culture ...
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... somewhat more straightforward in the context of the anti-colonial struggles than it does now. Still, writings on the subject raise questions of continuing interest. Fanon's The Wretched of 19 INTRODUCTION: AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY IN OUR TIME.
... somewhat more straightforward in the context of the anti-colonial struggles than it does now. Still, writings on the subject raise questions of continuing interest. Fanon's The Wretched of 19 INTRODUCTION: AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY IN OUR TIME.
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