Ethnophilosophy and the Search for the Wellspring of African Philosophy
This book provides a case for the de-stigmatisation of ethnophilosophy by demonstrating its continuing relevance in contemporary African philosophy. The book brings together established and brilliant young scholars who defend ethnophilosophy as a unique source of African philosophy with the capacity...
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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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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 9. H. Odera Oruka’s Philosophical Sagacity as a Variety of Ethno-philosophy (Pius Mosima)
- Chapter 10. ‘Ethnophilosophy’ and Wiredu’s Programme of Synthesis (Martin Odei Ajei)
- Part III: Ethnophilosophy, System-Building, and Contemporary Expansion of Thought
- Chapter 11. African Ethno-ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient (Elvis Imafidon)
- Chapter 12. The Cultural Background of Ezumezu Logical System (Umezurike J. Ezugwu and Jonathan O. Chimakonam)
- Chapter 13. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Ramose’s Ubuntu Ontology of Be-ing Becoming (Ada Agada)
- Chapter 14. Ethnophilosophical Tendencies in African Feminist Thought and Philosophy (Anke Graness)
- Chapter 15. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Pantaleon Iroegbu’s Uwa Ontology: A Hermeneutical Investigation (Jude Onebunne)
- Chapter 16. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Asouzu’s Concept of Missing Links (Maduka Enyimba and Ada Agada)
- Introduction
- Part I: Some Metaphilosophical Issues Revisited
- Chapter 1. Ethnophilosophy and the Wellspring of Philosophy in Africa (Bruce Janz)
- Chapter 2. A Wellspring of African Philosophical Concepts? The What and Why Questions in the Context of Interculturality (Ada Agada)
- Chapter 3. What is ‘Ethno’ and ‘Philosophy’ in Ethnophilosophy? (Diana-Abasi Ibanga)
- Chapter 4. Beyond the Universalist Critique and the Particularist Defence of Ethnophilosophy (L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya)
- Chapter 5. African Philosophy: With and Beyond Ethnophilosophy (Aribiah David Attoe)
- Chapter 6. Beyond Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy and in Defense of the Philosophical Viability of Ethnophilosophy (Edwin Etieyibo)
- Chapter 7. The Case Against Ethnophilosophy (Anthony C. Ojimba)
- Part II: Continuities and Discontinuities, the Past and the Present
- Chapter 8. Ethno-philosophical Currents in Kwame Gyekye’s Philosophy (Hasskei M. Majeed)
- Chapter 17. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Conversational Thinking (Amaobi Nelson Osuala and Maduka Enyimba)
- Chapter 18. The Challenge of the ‘End of Metaphysics’ for Ethnophilosophy: A Discourse on the Process Implication of the Metaphysics of Terror (Emmanuel Ofuasia)
- Chapter 19. Ethical and Political Issues in Afro-Communitarianism (Isaiah A. Negedu)
- Chapter 20. Are We Finished with the Ethnophilosophy Debate? A Multi-Perspective Conversation (Elvis Imafidon, Bernard Matolino, Ada Agada, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Aribiah David Attoe, Fainos Mangena, and Edwin Etieyibo)
- Index