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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... Mind KWASI WIREDU Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice MABOGO P. MORE Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) TEODROS KIROS Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral TSENAY ...
... Mind KWASI WIREDU Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, and Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis of their Thought and Practice MABOGO P. MORE Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) TEODROS KIROS Theory and the Actuality of Existence: Fanon and Cabral TSENAY ...
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Kwasi Wiredu. 26 Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind 343 SAFRO KWAME PART IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 353 27 Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues 355 OLUSEGUN OLADIPO 28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique ...
Kwasi Wiredu. 26 Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy of Mind 343 SAFRO KWAME PART IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 353 27 Religion in African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues 355 OLUSEGUN OLADIPO 28 Okot p'Bitek's Critique ...
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... Mind of Africa, articles on African philosophy and culture, on Leibniz, and on topics and figures in Greek philosophy.He has also held civic positions, including the chairmanship of national committees or commissions of inquiry, and ...
... Mind of Africa, articles on African philosophy and culture, on Leibniz, and on topics and figures in Greek philosophy.He has also held civic positions, including the chairmanship of national committees or commissions of inquiry, and ...
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... mind in communal conceptions and individualized cogitations. Accordingly, this text will not only serve as a companion to a main text in a course in African philosophy; it can also serve as the principal text at the graduate as well as ...
... mind in communal conceptions and individualized cogitations. Accordingly, this text will not only serve as a companion to a main text in a course in African philosophy; it can also serve as the principal text at the graduate as well as ...
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... mind, time, causality, destiny, freedom, and the good. In the field of religion, the evaluative element in these accounts of African thought, which were generally (though not universally) written by Christian authors, consisted in the ...
... mind, time, causality, destiny, freedom, and the good. In the field of religion, the evaluative element in these accounts of African thought, which were generally (though not universally) written by Christian authors, consisted in the ...
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