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| Author | : Isaac E. Ukpokolo |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3319407961 |
Download Themes, Issues and Problems in African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : James Ndungu Mburu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Philosophy, African |
| ISBN | : |
Download Thematic Issues in African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Jonathan O. Chimakonam |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2021-11-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 303070436X |
Download Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Download Trends and Issues in African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Lewis R. Gordon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2008-05-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521675468 |
Download An Introduction to Africana Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Download Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : G. E. Azenabor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Philosophy, African |
| ISBN | : |
Download Understanding the Problems of African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Munyaradzi Felix Murove |
| Publisher | : University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
Download African Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Richard H. Bell |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Philosophie africaine |
| ISBN | : 9780415939379 |
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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Alena Rettová |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1000488101 |
Download Critical Conversations in African Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres. Part one of the volume examines how African philosophy has reacted to burning issues, ranging from contemporary ethical questions on how to integrate technological advancements into human life; to one of philosophy’s prime endeavours, which is establishing the conditions of knowledge; to eternal ontological and existential questions on the nature of being, time, memory and death. Part two reflects on the (re)definition of philosophy from an African vantage point and African philosophy’s thrust to create its own canon, archive and resources to study African concepts, artefacts, practices and texts from the perspective of intellectual history. The volume aims to make a contribution to the academic debate on African philosophy and philosophy more broadly, challenging orthodox definitions and genres, in favour of a broadening of the discipline’s self-understanding and locales. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African philosophy and comparative philosophy.
