African Philosophy And Global Justice

Author : Uchenna Okeja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429657245

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African Philosophy and Global Justice by Uchenna Okeja Pdf

In contemporary political philosophy, the subject of global justice has received sustained interest. This is unsurprising, given the nexus between inequality and many of the pressing global problems today, such as immigration, global public health, poverty and violence. Theorists of global justice ask why inequality is morally wrong, what we owe to the global poor, what the implications of global inequality for people in affluent countries are, and the power of agencies or institutions necessary for the realization of a fairer world. Although political philosophers have offered different conceptions of these problems and narratives of the ideal of justice, a major shortcoming of the current discussion are the limits of the concepts and idioms employed. Assumptions are made about the experience of poverty, but little is done to understand the way people in underdeveloped countries experience and understand their predicament. This has resulted in the entrenchment of cognitive inequality in the global justice debate. This book attempts to correct the inaccuracies engendered by the one-sided theorising of global justice. By employing metaphors, concepts and philosophical ideas to reflect on global justice, the book provides an account of global justice that goes beyond current parochial perspective. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Philosophical Papers.

Author : Motsamai Molefe,Christopher Allsobrook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030644963

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Towards an African Political Philosophy of Needs by Motsamai Molefe,Christopher Allsobrook Pdf

This book focuses on the domains of moral philosophy, political philosophy, and political theory within African philosophy. At the heart of the volume is a call to imagine African political philosophy as embodying a needs-based political vision. While discourses in African political philosophy have fixated on the normative framework of human rights law to articulate demands for social and global justice, this book charts a new frontier in African political thought by turning from ‘rights’ to ‘needs.’ The authors aim to re-orient discourses in African philosophy beyond the impasse of rights-based confrontations to shift the conversation toward needs as a cornerstone of African political theory.

Author : Grivas Muchineripi Kayange
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031475976

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Meaning of Justice in African Philosophy by Grivas Muchineripi Kayange Pdf

The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the meaning of justice, such as the 'relational theory of justice' and 'Ubuntu justice as fairness.' The author argues that this foundation of justice in the community undermines the self, which is a major problem with these theories. As an attempt to go beyond communitarianism in African thought, the book recognizes other philosophical frameworks for elaborating the meaning of justice in ordinary people's experience, such as vitalism, theism, ubuntuism, and semantic framework. The author opts for a reconstructed ubuntu-based theory of the meaning of justice that reflects the traditional African experience and recuperates 'valuing self-existence' and 'valuing other-existence' as its foundations. The book further identifies the centrality of rights in defining justice in traditional African communities.

Author : Christian B. N. Gade
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498512268

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A Discourse on African Philosophy by Christian B. N. Gade Pdf

Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and contextualizes this view in a way that not only provides new findings and reflections on ubuntu and the TRC, but also contributes to the field of African philosophy. One of Christian B. N. Gade’s key findings, founded on qualitative interviews in South Africa, is that some former TRC commissioners and committee members question the importance of ubuntu in the TRC process. Another is that there are several differing and historically developing interpretations of ubuntu, some of which have evident political implications and reflect non-factual and creative uses of history. Thus ubuntu is not a shared cultural heritage, in the ethnophilosophical sense of a static property characterizing a group. In fact, throughout this book Gade argues that the ethnophilosophical approach to African philosophy as a static group property is highly problematic. Gade’s research presents an alternative collective discourse on African philosophy (“collective” in the sense that it does not focus on any single individual in particular) that takes differences, historical developments, and social contexts seriously. This book will be of interest to scholars in African philosophy, transitional justice, politics and cultural heritage, and law in South Africa.

Author : Munamato Chemhuru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000567755

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Environmental Justice in African Philosophy by Munamato Chemhuru Pdf

This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book makes suggestions for how to derive environmental justice from African philosophies such as communitarian ethics, relational ethics, unhu/ubuntu ethics, ecofeminist ethics and intergenerational ethics. Specifically, the book emphasises the ways in which African philosophies of existence seek to involve everyone in environmental policy and planning and to equitably distribute both environmental benefits (such as natural resources) and environmental burdens (such as pollution and the location of mining, industrial or dumping sites). This extends to fair distribution between global South and global North, rich and poor, urban and rural populations, men and women and adults and children. These principles of humaneness, relationships, equality, interconnectedness and teleologically oriented existence among all beings are important not only to African environmental justice but also to the environmental justice movement globally. The book will interest researchers and students working in the fields of environmental ethics, African philosophy and political philosophy in general.

Author : Theo Gavrielides,Vasso Artinopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317070177

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Reconstructing Restorative Justice Philosophy by Theo Gavrielides,Vasso Artinopoulou Pdf

This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy and human rights into restorative justice theory, resulting in the development of new and stimulating arguments. Topics covered include the close relationship and convergence of restorative justice and human rights, some of the challenges of engagement with human rights, the need for the recognition of the teachings of restorative justice at both the theoretical and the applied level, the Aristotelian theory on restorative justice, the role of restorative justice in schools and in police practice and a discussion of the humanistic African philosophy of Ubuntu. With international contributions from various disciplines and through the use of value based research methods, the book deconstructs existing concepts and suggests a new conceptual model for restorative justice. This unique book will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9966250220

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Sagacious Reasoning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Duncan Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427791

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Empire, Race and Global Justice by Duncan Bell Pdf

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

Author : Michael Kamau Mburu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793650030

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Odera Oruka and the Right to a Human Minimum by Michael Kamau Mburu Pdf

Odera Oruka and the Human Minimum: An African Philosopher's Defence of Human Dignity and Environment considers the work of Odera Oruka (1944–1995)—arguably one of the finest philosophers in Africa—by analyzing his major practical contribution to philosophy from the practical point of view. Odera Oruka is well known for his sage philosophy, but his "practical philosophy" has received less attention. This book situates Oruka within philosophical discourses around issues of justice, human rights, ethical duty, ecology, humanism, and politics. A thread that ties these questions together is Oruka's argument for the right to a human minimum, defined by three basic human needs: physical security, subsistence, and health care. Michael Kamau Mburu explores how these three taken together constitute the most basic and necessary (though not sufficient) right, and establishing this right is a means to ensuring human dignity, a condition for global justice. The book also expounds and applies some ethical values and philosophies from Africa—such as "ubuntu" or humanness—to clarify, defend, and promote human dignity without jeopardizing the environment.

Author : Gail M. Presbey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781350303881

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The Life and Thought of H. Odera Oruka by Gail M. Presbey Pdf

Henry Odera Oruka was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century African philosophy. During the early years of the decolonization of African countries, as universities worked to redefine themselves, Odera drove changes to curricula and research. A tireless advocate for democracy and human rights in Africa, he repeatedly intervened in the political debates of his time. This is the first critical biography of both the man himself and African philosophy in the context of changing times, taking us through his early life, scholarly training, and Oruka's way of transforming the field of philosophy as it was taught in Kenya. The narrative unfolds from the personal to the global, from Africa to the world, and from African philosophy to the wider field of philosophy. Biographical material is woven with narratives of the social conditions and live questions as they arise in Oruka's life in Kenya, Sweden, and the United States. We are introduced to his understanding of philosophy as a critique of society. Exposing prison practices in Africa and targeting capitalists, Oruka sought to remedy social problems on a global scale, from institutional racism and ethnic division to the wealth gap between rich and poor nations. Through archival material, personal interviews and primary texts, this book shines a light on Oruka's monumental contribution to African philosophy and global justice. Finally we can see how Oruka's insights are still relevant to how we think about poverty, philosophy and human rights today.

Author : Abraham Olivier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000682953

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The African Other by Abraham Olivier Pdf

This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. The work addresses a range of questions concerning the othering of Africans in the postcolonial context, specifically by focusing on the philosophical analysis of problems of justice, the effect of injustice on the formation of the self, and strategies of resistance against the injustice of othering. Questions raised in this collection include: who or what is "the other"? Who is the "African other"? In what ways are Africans othered? What is the effect of unjust conditions on the formation of the self? In what sense is othering an injustice? How can justice concern itself with the problem of othering? What are the strategies to resist the injustice of othering? Can one ever do justice to the experience of the subaltern other in abstract terms of philosophical analysis? In considering these questions, this book will be of interest to all those studying the intersectional ways in which colonial injustice is manifested in the postcolony, as well as those seeking greater philosophical reflection on postcolonial justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Author : J. Chukwuemeka Ekei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ethics
ISBN : IND:30000088036383

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Justice in Communalism by J. Chukwuemeka Ekei Pdf

Author : Franziska Dübgen,Stefan Skupien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030019952

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Paulin Hountondji by Franziska Dübgen,Stefan Skupien Pdf

Paulin J. Hountondji is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary African philosophy. His critique of ethnophilosophy as a colonial, exoticising and racialized undertaking provoked contentious debates among African intellectuals on the proper methods and scope of philosophy and science in an African and global context since the 1970s. His radical pledge for scientific autonomy from the global system of knowledge production made him turn to endogenous forms of practising science in academia. The horizon of his philosophy is the quest for critical universality from a historical, and situated perspective. Finally, his call for a notion of culture that is antithetical to political movements focused on a single identitarian doctrine or exclusionary norms shows how timely his political thought remains to this day. This book gives a comprehensive overview of Hountondji’s philosophical arguments and provides detailed information on the historical and political background of his intellectual oeuvre. It situates Hountondji in the dialogue with his African colleagues and explores links to current debates in philosophy, cultural studies, postcolonialism and the social sciences.

Author : Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1213 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781402091599

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Encyclopedia of Global Justice by Deen K. Chatterjee Pdf

This encyclopedia provides a premier reference guide for students, scholars, policy makers, and others interested in assessing the moral consequences of global interdependence and understanding the concepts and arguments that shed light on the myriad aspects of global justice.

Author : Thom Brooks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198714354

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice by Thom Brooks Pdf

Global justice is an exciting area of refreshing, innovative new ideas for a changing world facing significant challenges. Not only does work in this area often force us to rethink about ethics and political philosophy more generally, but its insights contain seeds of hope for addressing some of the greatest global problems facing humanity today. The Oxford Handbook of Global Justice has been selective in bringing together some of the most pressing topics and issues in global justice as understood by the leading voices from both established and rising stars across twenty-five new chapters. This Handbook explores severe poverty, climate change, egalitarianism, global citizenship, human rights, immigration, territorial rights, and much more.