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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.
Subjects:
Philosophy, African > 20th century.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516807
Table of Contents:
  • 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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