Themes, issues and problems in African philosophy. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Isaac E. Ukpokolo, editor.
• Editors: Ukpokolo, Isaac E
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction: The Shifting Focus of Philosophy in Africa; 2: Revisiting the Terms of African Philosophy; Introduction; Nature of the Poverty; Recalibrating the Discipline; Conclusion; 3: African Metaphysics: Traditional and Modern Discussions; Introduction; The Meaning of African Metaphysics; The Nature of African Metaphysics; The Scope of African Metaphysics; Traditional African Metaphysics; The Concept of Being; African Ontology; African Cosmology; God in African Cosmology; The African Concept of the Person The Person as Relational The Person as Dualistic; The Person as Triadic; The Person and Destiny; Modern African Metaphysics; Science Versus Mythological Metaphysics; African Metaphysics as a Cul de Sac Preventing Innovation; Ubuntu-African Metaphysics in Economics; Destiny in African Metaphysics; Pan-African Metaphysical Epistemology; West African, East African and South African Conceptions of a Person; The West African Conception of a Person; The East and South African Conception of a Person; Conclusion; Bibliography 4: Critical Notes on the Metaphysics of Metallurgy in an African Culture Introduction; Metaphysics of Metallurgy in Yorùbá (African) Belief; Bibliography; 5: An Overview of African Ethics; Introduction; Nature and History of the Profession; Normative Ethics: Good and Bad Character; Normative Ethics: Right and Wrong Action; Applied Ethics; Metaethics; Bibliography; 6: Transnational Ethics, Justice and Anyiam-­Osigwe's Philosophy of the Family; Introduction and Issue Statement; Conceptual Prologue Skewed Global Human Relations and the Debate Between Proponents and Opponents of Transnational Justice The Proponents of Transnational Justice and Their Theses; The Opponents of Transnational Justice and Their Theses; Applying Anyiam-Osigwe's African Philosophy of the Family: An Argument from Transnational Ethics to Transnational Justice; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7: Toward an African Moral Theory (Revised Edition); Clarification of the Project; Ubuntu as a Moral Theory; Developing the Favoured Account; Conclusion: Topics for Future Work; 8: An African Theory of Knowledge Introduction The African Cultural and Ontological Reality; The Nature of African Epistemology; An African Theory of Knowledge; The African Homo-cultural Theory of Justification of Knowledge; Conclusion; Bibliography; 9: Epistemic Insight from an African Way of Knowing; Introduction; Ignorance and an African Epistemological Framework; An African Way of Knowing; Conclusion; 10: The Imperative of Epistemic Decolonization in Contemporary Africa; Introduction; The African Colonial Experience and Emergence of a New Epistemological Order
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 199.6; Philosophy; Philosophy -- Africa; PHILOSOPHY / Essays; PHILOSOPHY / Reference; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern; Philosophy; Philosophy -- Eastern; Non-Western philosophy; Philosophy, modern; Philosophy, Asian; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Africa; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319407968; 3319407961
• Related ISBNs: 9783319407951; 3319407953
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 2, 2017).
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