Self and community in a changing world / D.A. Masolo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masolo, D. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Philosophical anthropology.

Communitarianism--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Communitarianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 considers why individual rights and freedoms have not been recognized, respected, demanded, or enforced. Masolo offers solutions for containing socially destructive conduct and antisocial tendencies by engaging community. His unique thinking about community and the role of the individual extends African philosophy in new, global directions.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-81829-5

9786612818295

0-253-00452-7

OCLC:

651602434