An Essay On African Philosophical Thought

Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1566393809

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An Essay on African Philosophical Thought by Kwame Gyekye Pdf

In this sustained and nuanced attempt to define a genuinely African philosophy, Kwame Gyekye rejects the idea that an African philosophy consists simply of the work of Africans writing on philosophy. It must, Gyekye argues, arise from African thought itself, relate to the culture out of which it grows, and provide the possibility of a continuation of a philosophy linked to culture. Offering a philosophical clarification and theology, and ethics of the Akan of Ghana, Gyekye argues that critical analyses of specific traditional African modes of thought are necessary to develop a distinctively African philosophy as well as cultural values in the modern world. --

Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195354676

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Tradition and Modernity by Kwame Gyekye Pdf

In this important and pioneering book, Kwame Gyekye examines postcolonial African experience from a viewpoint receptive to aspects of both traditional African cultures and Western political and moral theory. African people, in their attempt to evolve ways of life compatible with an increasingly globalized world cultural, intellectual, and political scene, face a number of unique societal challenges, some stemming, Gyekye argues, from traditional African values and practices, others representing the legacy of European colonialism. Enlisting Western political and philosophic concepts to clear, comparative advantage, Gyekye addresses a wide range of concrete problems afflicting postcolonial African states, such as ethnicity and nation- building, the relationship of tradition to modernity, the relationship of the nation-state to community, the nature of political authority and political legitimation, political corruption, and the threat to traditional moral and social values, practices, and institutions in the wake of rapid social change. With striking flexibility and rare insight, Gyekye assesses the value of both traditional and non-African cultural components for the future of African societies and proposes alternative social and political models capable of forging a modernity appropriate for Africa. The resulting book, Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience, is a brilliant new contribution to postcolonial theory and will be of deep interest to scholars of political and moral philosophy, cultural studies, and African philosophy and politics, and to anyone else concerned with the efforts of non-Western societies to properly modernize.

Author : Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher : Hope Publishing Company (IL)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy, African
ISBN : IND:30000050650153

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Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy by Kwasi Wiredu Pdf

Author : Peter Aloysius Ikhane,Isaac E. Ukpokolo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000854121

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African Epistemology by Peter Aloysius Ikhane,Isaac E. Ukpokolo Pdf

This book investigates how knowledge is conceived and explored within the African context. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, has historically been dominated by the Western approach to the discourse of knowledge. This book however shines a much-needed spotlight on knowledge systems originating within the African continent. Bringing together key voices from across the field of African philosophy, this book explores the nature of knowledge across the continent and how they are rooted in Africans’ ontological sense of being and self. At a time when moves to decolonize curricula are gaining momentum, this book shows how understanding the specific ways of knowing that form part of the every day life of the African, will play an important part in rebalancing studies of philosophy globally. Employing critical, conceptual and rigorous analyses of the nature and essence of knowledge as understood by indigenous African societies, the book ultimately asks what could pass as an African theory of knowledge. This important guide to the connections between knowledge and being, in African philosophical thought, will be an important resource for researchers and students of philosophy and African studies.

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin Etieyibo,Ike Odimegwu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030704360

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Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin Etieyibo,Ike Odimegwu Pdf

This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.

Author : Martin Odei Ajei
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498511520

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Disentangling Consciencism by Martin Odei Ajei Pdf

Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international relations. Consciencism has the distinctive status of being the only published book that Nkrumah consciously meant to be a work of his philosophy, yet it has failed to attract the focused attention of philosophers. The chapters in Disentangling Consciencism: Essays on Kwame Nkrumah’s Philosophy critically explore the metaphysical, ethical and political thought expressed in Consciencism. In doing so, they broaden our understanding of his philosophical ideas and their relevance for effective African contribution to thought in a contemporary world in which Africa increasingly totters on the margins of international affairs. In much of current moral and political thinking, there is a tendency to universalize liberal values and neglect non-Western philosophical perspectives. At the same time, global normative thinking is overwhelmingly applied in non-Western contexts. Writing from across three continents, the contributors to this volume establish greater intellectual connection among African, Asian and Western academics, and their chapters offer explicit perspectives on the value of Nkrumah’s philosophy, and on the conceptual basis of early post-colonial public policy options in Africa. A valuable appendix provides the text of speeches delivered at the 1964 launch of Consciencism. With insights into numerous dimensions of Nkrumah’s philosophy, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of philosophy—especially of non-Western metaphysical, moral and political thought—and to anyone working in the history of African political theory.

Author : Francis O. C. Njoku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000094695834

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Essays in African Philosophy, Thought & Theology by Francis O. C. Njoku Pdf

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648890130

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Logic and African Philosophy by Jonathan O. Chimakonam Pdf

“Logic and African Philosophy: Seminal Essays on African Systems of Thought” aims to put African intellectual history in perspective, with focus on the subjects of racism, logic, language, and psychology. The volume seeks to fill in the gaps left by the exclusion of African thinkers that are frequent in the curricula of African schools concerning history, sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies. The book is divided into four parts that are preceded by an introduction to link up the essays and emphasise their sociological implications. Part one is comprised of essays that opened the controversy of whether logic can be found in traditional African cultures as well as other matters like the nature of the mind and behaviour of African peoples. The essays in part two are centred on the following question: are the laws of thought present in African languages and cultures? Part three brings together essays that sparkle the debate on whether there can be such a thing as African logic, which stems from the discussions in part two. Part four is concerned on the theme of system-building in logic; contributions are written by members of the budding African philosophy movement called the “Conversational School of Philosophy” based at the University of Calabar, and the main objective of their papers is to formulate systems of African logic.

Author : Olusegun Oladipo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnophilosophy
ISBN : IND:30000088062025

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The Third Way in African Philosophy by Olusegun Oladipo Pdf

Author : Ndumiso Dladla
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781928314790

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Here is a Table by Ndumiso Dladla Pdf

Our understanding of racism is that it is the systematic doubt concerning the humanity of the other. It is a means to an end, namely, to pursue the dehumanisation of the other for one’s sole and exclusive benefit. The doubt is in itself ethically indefensible. Yet, it ultimately acquires the status of an incontrovertible truth around which economic and political life is organised and conducted. This has been and continues to be the reality in South Africa today. The hypothesis of this book is that a philosophical-historical study of racism will reveal that it has only ever been and continues to be white supremacy. In South Africa the actuality of the doubt is that it has always arisen from one side (“whiteness”) and directed itself against the other (“blackness”). Our purpose is to show that racism properly speaking is white supremacy and that it cannot be properly understood without African philosophy.

Author : Nimi Wariboko,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030364908

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics by Nimi Wariboko,Toyin Falola Pdf

This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.

Author : Lee M. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0198027370

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African Philosophy by Lee M. Brown Pdf

In the last two decades the idea of African Philosophy has undergone significant change and scrutiny. Some critics have maintained that the idea of a system of philosophical thought tied to African traditions is incoherent. In African Philosophy Lee Brown has collected new essays by top scholars in the field that in various ways respond to these criticisms and defend the notion of African Philosophy. The essays address both epistemological and metaphysical issues that are specific to the traditional conceptual languages of sub-Saharan Africa. The primary focus of the collection is on traditional African conceptions of topics like mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity, destiny, free will, causation, and reality. The contributors, who include Leke Adeofe, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Lee Brown, Segun Gbadegesin, D.A. Masolo, Albert Mosley, Ifeanyi Menkiti, and Kwasi Wiredu, incorporate concerns from various African philosophical traditions, including Akan, Azande, Bokis, Igno, Luo, and Yoruba. African Philosophy ultimately tries to bring a more rigorous conception of African philosophy into fruitful contact with Western philosophical concerns, specifically in the philosophies of psychology, mind, science, and language, as well as in metaphysics and epistemology. It will appeal to both scholars and students.

Author : Theophilus Okere
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3825882179

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African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture by Theophilus Okere Pdf

The Series: Studies in African Philosophy is a forum for the publication and wider dissemination of researches and reflections of value on all aspects of African philosophy. While recognising the special advantage of interdisciplinary approach in modern scholarship, it retains a special predilection for works that have special African philosophic import. Although Theophilus Okere's book African Philosophy has made remarkable impact on African philosophical scholarship, many may not be aware of the way he tried to apply his preferred method to other areas of the philosophical investigation in Africa and to overcome the risk of relativism through the promotion of intercultural dialogue in philosophy. The essays published in this volume bear testimony to the multivalent character of Okere's contribution to African philosophy. Most of the essays are about Okere's hermeneutics of culture. Some of the authors examine the method in itself, while others focus attention on its application to specific philosophical themes. Book jacket.

Author : B. Abanuka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:30000050848799

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A New Essay on African Philosophy by B. Abanuka Pdf

Author : Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin E. Etieyibo
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622734221

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Ka Osi Sọ Onye: African Philosophy in the Postmodern Era by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Edwin E. Etieyibo Pdf

This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled ‘The Journey of Reason in African Philosophy’, and part two is titled ‘African Philosophy and Postmodern Thinking’. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. While part one strikes at what V. Y. Mudimbe calls the “colonising structure” or the Greco-European logo-phallo-euro-centricism in thought, part two bashes the excesses of modernism and partly valorises postmodernism. In some chapters, modernism is presented as an intellectual version of communalism characterised by the cliché: ‘our people say’. Our thinking is that the voice of reason is not the voice of the people but the voice of an individual. The idea of this book is to open new vistas for the discipline of African philosophy. African philosophy is thus presented as a disagreement discourse. Without rivalry of thoughts, Africa will settle for far less. This gives postmodernism an important place, perhaps deservedly more important than history of philosophy allocates to it. It is that philosophical moment that says ‘philosophers must cease speaking like gods in their hegemonic cultural shrines and begin to converse across borders with one another’. In this conversation, the goal for African philosophers must not be to find final answers but to sustain the conversation which alone can extend human reason to its furthermost reaches.