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.
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"This is a major contribution to African philosophy and serves extremely well to introduce students to this wonderfully rich area." -- Richard Wright, Western Michigan University
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P.H. Coetzee is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of South Africa.
A.P.J. Roux is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Africa.
A. P. J. Roux are Professors of Philosophy at the University of South Africa, Unisa. Roux is the author of World and Meaning (1992).
A.P.J. Roux is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Africa.
A. P. J. Roux are Professors of Philosophy at the University of South Africa, Unisa. Roux is the author of World and Meaning (1992).
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"The African Philosophy Reader" is an excellent collection of essays, and is intended for undergraduates and beginners in African philosophy. The volume is heavily weighted towards contemporary African intellectuals, and draws heavily from regional African philosophies such as those in Ghana, Nigeria, and Uganda. With regard to South Africa, book claims that there is no regional philosophy--rather philosophy in S. Africa follows the analytic/continental split found in Anglophone traditions in USA and Europe. Steve Biko's inclusion represents political philosophy in S. Africa. The book focuses early on on deconstructing Eurocentricity in anthropological constructions of African persons and worldviews. Elsewhere the volume aims to delineate philosophical trends in Africa and develops a crtical understanding of the "culture concept" with regard to these trends, as well as with regard to the development of mutliple rationalities by which different African philosophies proceed (Marlene Van Niekerk). There is also a useful critique of the entire subject of "Ethnophilosophy" by K. Anthony Appiah. (...)
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Relations between the knowing subject and its object, in any account of the epistemological process, has occupied Western philosophy from the time of Plato, but most especially since the seventeenth century, with the advent of both Cartesian rationalism and Lockean empiricism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern aesthetic attitude, philosophic sagacity, sympathetic impartiality, conceptual decolonization, ethnophilosophical approach, contested dialogue, philosophical sagacity, sage philosophy, cosmic architect, reflective perception, social thesis, primitive aesthetics, folk philosophy, natural sociality, social endowments, secondary theory, wider political arena, bad destiny, good destiny, physical head, distributive patterns, professional philosophy, consensual democracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, New York, Teilhard de Chardin, Cambridge University Press, Kwasi Wiredu, Oxford University Press, United States, Civilisation of the Universal, West Africa, Cape Town, Civilization of the Universal, Golden Rule, Golden Stool, Komfo Anokye, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Western Humanism, Central Luo, Middle Ages, Odera Oruka, Placide Tempels, Robin Horton, University Press of America, Akan God, Akwapim Akan New!
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Relations between the knowing subject and its object, in any account of the epistemological process, has occupied Western philosophy from the time of Plato, but most especially since the seventeenth century, with the advent of both Cartesian rationalism and Lockean empiricism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern aesthetic attitude, philosophic sagacity, sympathetic impartiality, conceptual decolonization, ethnophilosophical approach, contested dialogue, philosophical sagacity, sage philosophy, cosmic architect, reflective perception, social thesis, primitive aesthetics, folk philosophy, natural sociality, social endowments, secondary theory, wider political arena, bad destiny, good destiny, physical head, distributive patterns, professional philosophy, consensual democracy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, New York, Teilhard de Chardin, Cambridge University Press, Kwasi Wiredu, Oxford University Press, United States, Civilisation of the Universal, West Africa, Cape Town, Civilization of the Universal, Golden Rule, Golden Stool, Komfo Anokye, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Western Humanism, Central Luo, Middle Ages, Odera Oruka, Placide Tempels, Robin Horton, University Press of America, Akan God, Akwapim Akan New!
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- Social Science S/G on page 131
- Black Athena by Martin Bernal on page 130
- Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Volume II by Arthur Schopenhauer on page 132
- African Philosophy by Richard A. Wright on page 131
- Oscar Wilde by H.Montgomery Hyde on page 274
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- Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues (Philosophy and the Human Situation) by Richard H. Bell on 10 pages
- Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues (Philosophy and the Human Situation) by Richard H. Bell on 8 pages
- A Short History of African Philosophy by Barry Hallen on page 111, and Back Matter
- Being Human Cloth by Dwight N. Hopkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Knowledge Cultures: Comparative Western and African Epistemology (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 88) by Bert Hamminga on page 82, and page 113
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