Self and community in a changing world:
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1. Verfasser: Masolo, D. A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Philosophy and indigenous knowledge -- Philosophy and the orders of consciousness -- Revaluation of values and the demand for liberties -- Understanding personhood : an African philosophical anthropology -- Juok as the moral foundation of personhood -- Two forms of communitarianism : a comparison -- In lieu of a conclusion : a village symposium on experience
Revisiting African philosophy's classic questions, D.A. Masolo advances understandings of what it means to be human -- whether of African or other origin. Masolo reframes indigenous knowledge as diversity: How are we to understand the place and structure of consciousness? How does the everyday color the world we know? Where are the boundaries between self and other, universal and particular, and individual and community? From here, he takes a dramatic turn toward Africa's current political situation and
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 343 pages)
ISBN:0253004527
9780253004529

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