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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... Metaphysics Edited by Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa 8 A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory Edited by Dennis Patterson 9 A Companion to Philosophy of Religion Edited by Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro 10 A Companion to ...
... Metaphysics Edited by Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa 8 A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory Edited by Dennis Patterson 9 A Companion to Philosophy of Religion Edited by Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro 10 A Companion to ...
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... METAPHYSICS Logic in the Acholi Language VICTOR OCAYA Yoruba Moral Epistemology BARRY 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 ...
... METAPHYSICS Logic in the Acholi Language VICTOR OCAYA Yoruba Moral Epistemology BARRY 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 ...
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... Francophone Africa JEAN-GODEFROY BIDIMA Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender NKIRU NZEGWU Index 499 509 519 527 529 538 549 560 570 To the memory of Cheikh Anta Diop and Alexis Kagame, viii CONTENTS.
... Francophone Africa JEAN-GODEFROY BIDIMA Feminism and Africa: Impact and Limits of the Metaphysics of Gender NKIRU NZEGWU Index 499 509 519 527 529 538 549 560 570 To the memory of Cheikh Anta Diop and Alexis Kagame, viii CONTENTS.
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... metaphysics and epistemology. His articles include ''Themes in Chewa Epistemology,'' in Coetzee and Roux (eds.), African Philosophy Reader (1998). To our deep mortification, Kaphagawani passed away in 2000 not long after completing his ...
... metaphysics and epistemology. His articles include ''Themes in Chewa Epistemology,'' in Coetzee and Roux (eds.), African Philosophy Reader (1998). To our deep mortification, Kaphagawani passed away in 2000 not long after completing his ...
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... Metaphysics,'' in Coetzee and Roux (eds.), Philosophy from Africa: A Text with Readings (2002). Pieter Boele van Hensbroek was born in the Netherlands. He studied philosophy at the University of Groningen where he is currently Research ...
... Metaphysics,'' in Coetzee and Roux (eds.), Philosophy from Africa: A Text with Readings (2002). Pieter Boele van Hensbroek was born in the Netherlands. He studied philosophy at the University of Groningen where he is currently Research ...
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