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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... thinking and, most particularly, logic. He has made a special study of logic in Acholi, his mother tongue. Since his M.A dissertation on this subject, he has continued to deepen his results. Olusegun Oladipo is Senior Lecturer in ...
... thinking and, most particularly, logic. He has made a special study of logic in Acholi, his mother tongue. Since his M.A dissertation on this subject, he has continued to deepen his results. Olusegun Oladipo is Senior Lecturer in ...
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... thinking of the individual ''informants.'' The case of Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmeli (1965), in which exposure was given to a named individual of an African society, is an (apparent) exception that proves the rule. Wittingly ...
... thinking of the individual ''informants.'' The case of Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmeli (1965), in which exposure was given to a named individual of an African society, is an (apparent) exception that proves the rule. Wittingly ...
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... thinking. The ground of dismay in the minds of other African philosophers with this development consisted in the conviction that philosophy is not just a narrative, but also an evaluative enterprise, the latter being an essential aspect ...
... thinking. The ground of dismay in the minds of other African philosophers with this development consisted in the conviction that philosophy is not just a narrative, but also an evaluative enterprise, the latter being an essential aspect ...
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... thinking and sensitive to the imperatives of modern existence. (See A. G. A. Bello's forthright discussion of methodological controversies in African philosophy in this volume, chapter 18.) Indeed, what to do with modern issues and ...
... thinking and sensitive to the imperatives of modern existence. (See A. G. A. Bello's forthright discussion of methodological controversies in African philosophy in this volume, chapter 18.) Indeed, what to do with modern issues and ...
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... thinking of the Bantu accurate enough to facilitate their conversion to the truths of the Christian message. Tempels's book, which was actually published in the present English translation by a group of African intellectuals in Paris ...
... thinking of the Bantu accurate enough to facilitate their conversion to the truths of the Christian message. Tempels's book, which was actually published in the present English translation by a group of African intellectuals in Paris ...
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