The African Philosophy ReaderPieter Hendrik Coetzee, A. P. J. Roux Psychology Press, 1998 - 467 Seiten This text includes 25 readings from African thinkers such as Biko, Appiah, Wiredu, Sogolo Gyekye and Senghor. The readings are organized under seven headings: African culture; African epistemology; African metaphysics and religion; rationality and explanation in an African context; African political philosophy; African ethics; and African aesthetics. The book can be used as an introduction for students coming to African philosophy for the first time and and should be of interest to those studying literature, religion, anthropology and philosophy courses. |
Inhalt
C VAN STADEN | 15 |
S BikoSome African cultural concepts | 26 |
M VAN NIEKERK | 52 |
N Kaphagawani What is African philosophy? | 86 |
H O Oruka Sage philosophy | 99 |
K A Appiah Ethnophilosophy and its critics | 109 |
L J TEFFO A P J ROUX | 134 |
the Yoruba concept of a person | 149 |
G S SogoloLogic and rationality | 217 |
S Gbadegesin Individuality community and the moral | 292 |
P H COETZEE | 337 |
J R WILKINSON | 383 |
perspective | 396 |
African aesthetics | 418 |
A SHUTTE | 428 |
GLOSSARY | 449 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aesthetic African culture African philosophy African Thinking African thought Akan Akan language ancestors anthropology argued argument articulation Asantehene Azande Bantu Bantu Philosophy belief Bodunrin Chewa Chichewa choice civilisation claim colonial communitarian conceived concept consciousness consensus contemporary context critical critique cultural relativism destiny discourse èmí epistemology ethical ethnophilosophy European example existence explanation fact force Gyekye he/she his/her Hountondji human idea identity individual intellectual issues knowledge Kwasi Wiredu language Lévy-Bruhl logical Marxism means metaphysical modern moral nature Negritude notion object okra organisation orí Oruka particular person personhood philosophic sagacity physical political possible practices primitive principle problem question rationality reason recognised regard relations relativism religion religious sage scientific Senghor sense simply social society South Africa specific spirit sunsum Tempels theory things traditional African truth Ubuntu understanding values Western Western philosophy Wiredu word Yoruba Yoruba language