Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chimakonam, Jonathan O. (Editor), Etieyibo, Edwin (Editor), Odimegwu, Ike (Editor)
Summary:XXII, 353 p.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70436-0
Format: Electronic Book
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.