Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
This volume is a collection of chapters on contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with in order to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade. Examples of such issues are xenophob...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy
- Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy
- How African is Philosophy in Africa?
- Doing Philosophy in the African Place: A Perspective on the Language Challenge
- The Fallacy of Exclusion and the Promise of Conversational Philosophy in Africa
- How Conversational Philosophy Profits from the Particularist and the Universalist Agenda
- Examining the Method and Praxis of Conversationalism
- Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Alternative
- African Ethics and Agent-Centred Duties
- On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics
- How to Report on War in the Light of an African Ethic
- Taking African Virtue Ethics and Character Training Principles to the Schools
- Ubuntu as a plausible Ground for a Normative Theory of Justice from the African Place
- Remedial Approach to Cultural Globalization and Intercultural Competence
- Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development
- Totality by Analogy; or: The Limits of Law and Black Subjectivity
- The African Philosopher and the Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS)
- Changes, Adaptation and Complementary Noetic Transformation
- Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care
- The Struggle to Forgive: Some Philosophical - Theological Reflections
- The Themes of Nihilism, Pessimism, and Optimism in Ibuanyidanda and Consolation Ontologies
- African Philosophy and Intellectual History
- Index