Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy write by Kwasi Wiredu. This book was released on 1995. Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Listening to Ourselves
Listening to Ourselves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Listening to Ourselves write by Chike Jeffers. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Listening to Ourselves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation. A groundbreaking contribution to the discipline of philosophy, this volume presents a collection of philosophical essays written in indigenous African languages by professional African philosophers with English translations on the facing pagesdemonstrating the linguistic and conceptual resources of African languages for a distinctly African philosophy. Hailing from five different countries and writing in six different languages, the seven authors featured include some of the most prominent African philosophers of our time. They address a range of topics, including the nature of truth, different ways of conceiving time, the linguistic status of proverbs, how naming practices work, gender equality and inequality in traditional society, the relationship between language and thought, and the extent to which morality is universal or culturally variable.
African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women
African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women write by Jonathan Chimakonam. This book was released on 2018-04-20. African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective, to become obvious. Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what philosophy could do to ameliorate the epistemic marginalization of women, as well as ways in which African philosphy exacerbates this marginalization. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its ramifications; why is it failing in this duty in Africa where the issue of women’s epistemic vision is concerned? The chapters raise feminist agitations to a new level; beginning from the regular campaigns for various women’s rights and reaching a climax in an epistemic struggle in which the knowledge-controlling power to create, acquire, evaluate, regulate and disseminate is proposed as the last frontier of feminism.
Cultural Universals and Particulars
Cultural Universals and Particulars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Universals and Particulars write by Kwasi Wiredu. This book was released on 1996. Cultural Universals and Particulars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Wiredu's discussion of culturally defined values and concepts, as well as his attention to such timely issues as human rights, makes this book invaluable interdisciplinary reading." —D. A. Masolo Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu confronts the paradox that while Western cultures recoil from claims of universality, previously colonized peoples, seeking to redefine their identities, insist on cultural particularities. Wiredu asserts that universals, rightly conceived on the basis of our common biological identity, are not incompatible with cultural particularities and, in fact, are what make intercultural communication possible. Drawing on aspects of Akan thought that appear to diverge from Western conceptions in the areas of ethics and metaphysics, Wiredu calls for a just reappraisal of these disparities, free of thought patterns corrupted by a colonial mentality. Wiredu's exposition of the principles of African traditional philosophy is not purely theoretical; he shows how certain aspects of African political thought may be applied to the practical resolution of some of Africa's most pressing problems.
Sage Philosophy
Sage Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sage Philosophy write by Henry Odera Oruka. This book was released on 2022-06-08. Sage Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous sages in Kenya. Part Two introduces verbatim interviews with a given number of those sages, while Part Three consists of published papers by scholars who are critics or commentators on the Oruka project. The author has spent the last decade in Kenya carrying out his research. It is the general stand of the book that the sages turn out to be thinkers or philosophers in no trivial sense, despite their lack of modern formal education. This study is a critique for all those scholars who hitherto have found no practice of critical philosophy in traditional Africa.
