Themes Issues And Problems In African Philosophy
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| Author | : Isaac E. Ukpokolo |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319407961 |
This volume provides the key to a deepened discourse on philosophy in Africa. Available literature and academic practice in African philosophy since the 1960s have largely featured discourses in the areas of origin, general meaning and nature of the discipline, with little attention given to specialized areas. By contrast, this book examines a noticeable shifting focus from such general concerns to more specific subject-matter, in such areas as epistemology, moral philosophy, metaphysics, aesthetics, and social and political philosophy in the light of the African experience. The volume includes specific discourses from expert contributors on the nature, history and scope of African ethics and metaphysics, while also discussing particular themes in African epistemology, philosophy of education, existentialism and political philosophy. Researchers seeking for new perspective on African philosophy will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.
| Author | : Richard H. Bell |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Philosophie africaine |
| ISBN | : 9780415939379 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : James Ndungu Mburu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Philosophy, African |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jonathan O. Chimakonam |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2021-11-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 303070436X |
This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.
| Author | : F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : 9781433107504 |
This book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent orientation on African philosophy at the undergraduate level. Those pursuing African philosophy at the graduate level will find the text refreshingly novel.
| Author | : Elvis Imafidon |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 639 |
| Release | : 2023-09-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3031251490 |
This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.
| Author | : Lewis R. Gordon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2008-05-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521675468 |
In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that much of modern thought emerged out of early conflicts between Islam and Christianity that culminated in the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and from the subsequent expansion of racism, enslavement, and colonialism which in their turn stimulated reflections on reason, liberation, and the meaning of being human. His book takes the student reader on a journey from Africa through Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, and back to Africa, as he explores the challenges posed to our understanding of knowledge and freedom today, and the response to them which can be found within Africana philosophy.
| Author | : Jonathan O. Chimakonam |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2021-11-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9783030704353 |
This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.
| Author | : Munyaradzi Felix Murove |
| Publisher | : University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
This is the first comprehensive volume on African ethics, centered on Ubuntu and its relevance today. Important contemporary issues are explored, such as African bioethics, business ethics, traditional African attitudes to the environment, and the possible development of a new form of democracy based on indigenous African political systems. In a world that has become interconnected, this anthology demonstrates that African ethics can make valuable contributions to global ethics. It is not only African academics, students, organizations, or those individuals committed to ethics that are envisaged as the beneficiaries of this book, but all humankind. A number of topics presented here were inspired by a Shona proverb that says, Ndarira imwe hairiri (One brass wire cannot produce a sound). The chorus of voices in African Ethics demonstrates this proverbial truism.
| Author | : G. E. Azenabor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Philosophy, African |
| ISBN | : |
