Trends and issues in African philosophy

Main Author: Ochieng'-Odhiambo, F.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516807
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300 |a xi, 237 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- The historical phase -- Western discourse on Africa -- Egyptology : an African response -- Afrocentricity -- Conclusion -- African philosophy as ethnophilosophy -- Tempels on Bantu philosophy -- African religions and philosophy -- Horton on African and western thought systems -- Other ethnophilsophers and general critiques -- The professional approach -- Ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy -- Myth and reality of African philosophy -- Traditional thought and modern philosophy in Africa -- Wiredu's truth as opinion -- A case against the professional school -- Philosophic sagacity --Sage philosophy and philosophic sagacity -- Relevance of sagacious reasoning -- Keita's objections -- Three ways of approaching philosophic sagacity -- Masolo on philosophic sagacity -- Odera Oruka's mission in African philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy and ethnophilosophy -- Consciencism -- Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism -- African socialism and federalism in post-colonial Africa -- African philosophical hermeneutics -- Universalism and particularism -- Hermeneutical orientation in African philosophy. 
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