African Philosophy

New and Traditional Perspectives

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-511441-6 (ISBN)

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This is a collection of previously unpublished essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The primary focus is on traditional African conceptions of mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity, and reality.

African Philosophy is a collection of previously unpublished essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The primary focus of the book is on traditional African conceptions of mind, person, personal identity, truth, knowledge, understanding, objectivity, and reality. The collection also discusses traditional African conceptions of causation, destiny, and free will.

K. Lee Brown was formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy, Howard University and is currently a priest at Daihonzan Chozen-ji International Zen Dojo in Honolulu, Hawaii and Resident Priest at Gensho-ji International Zen Dojo in Washington, DC.

Contributors
1: Introduction: Seeing through the Conceptual Languages of Others
2: K. Anthony Appiah: Akan and Euro-American Concepts of the Person
3: Kwasi Wiredu: Truth and an African Language
4: Segun Gbadegesin: An Outline of a Theory of Destiny
5: Leke Adeofe: Personal Identity in African Metaphysics
6: D. A. Masolo: The Concept of the Person in Luo Modes of Thought
7: I. A. Menkiti: Physical and Metaphysical Understanding: Nature, Agency, and Causation in African Traditional Thought
8: Albert Mosley: Witchcraft, Science, and the Paranormal in Contemporary African Philosophy
9: Lee M. Brown: Understanding and Ontology in Traditional African Thought
Selected Bibliography of Epistemological and Metaphysical Perspectives in African Philosophical Thought
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.2.2004
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 209 mm
Gewicht	264 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-19-511441-8 / 0195114418
ISBN-13	978-0-19-511441-6 / 9780195114416
Zustand	Neuware