African philosophy: new and traditional perspectives
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and indexes
Akan and Euro-American concepts of the person - K. Anthony Appiah -- - Truth and an African language - Kwasi Wiredu -- - An outline of a theory of destiny - Segun Gbadegesin -- - Personal identity in African metaphysics - Leke Adeofe -- - The concept of the person in Luo modes of thought - D.A. Masolo -- - Physical and metaphysical understanding: nature, agency, and causation in African traditional thought - I.A. Menkiti -- - Witchcraft, science, and the paranormal in contemporary African philosophy - Albert Mosley -- - Understanding and ontology in traditional African thought - Lee M. Brown -- - Selected bibliography of epistemological and metaphysical perspectives in African philosophical thought
This is a collection of essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The focus of the book is on traditional African conceptions of mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity and reality
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 193 p.)
ISBN:019511440X
0198027370
9780195114409
9780198027379

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