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Handbook of African philosophy / Elvis Imafidon, Mpho Tshivhase, Björn Freter, editors.
Springer Nature - Springer Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks 2023 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Handbooks in Philosophy Series
- Handbooks in philosophy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, African.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (642 pages) : illustrations (color).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
- Summary:
- This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Part I: Introduction
- The Meaning of African Philosophy
- Introduction
- Whose Philosophy?
- What Is Meant by an African Place?
- The Handbook
- References
- Part II: Afro-communitarian Philosophy
- African Philosophy of Communalism
- Part I
- A Person Is a Person Through Other Persons
- To Be Is to Participate
- Personhood in African Cultures
- Part II
- Identity and Moral Personhood
- Concept of Time
- Buying and Selling
- Conclusion
- Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy
- Bridging the Theory-Praxis Gap
- The Narrow Conception of Community and the Exclusion Challenge
- The Normativity of Being and the Difference Challenge
- Hierarchical Communing and the Participatory Challenge
- Relational Dwelling and the Autonomy Challenge
- Afro-communitarianism and Transhumanism
- Understanding Transhumanism
- Afro-communitarian Understanding of Personhood
- Will the Transhumanization of Our World Change Our Values System?
- Social Robots as Persons in Community
- Relationality in Afro-communitarianism
- Nature of Moral Community
- Humanity, Uniqueness, and Social Robots in Sociopolitical Contexts
- Robots and Dignity: An Afro-communitarian Argument in Eldercare
- Robots in Eldercare
- Afro-communitarian Conceptions of Human Dignity
- Afro-communitarian Evaluation of Eldercare Robots
- Part III: Ethics
- African Ethics
- African Ethics: Definitions and Issues
- Religion as the basis of African Ethics
- African Ethics and Intercultural Philosophy
- Recourse to African Applied Ethics
- References.
- Doing Moral Philosophy Through Personhood
- Three Distinct Concepts of a Person
- Ontological Personhood: Ethical Humanism
- Ontological Personhood: Ethics of Dignity
- Normative Personhood: Character and Achievement Dignity
- Miscellaneous Ethical Themes
- Theory of Right Action
- Partiality and Impartiality
- Animal Ethics
- African Research Ethics
- Research Ethics
- Classification of Some Research in African Studies
- Risk Assessment and Correct Understanding of Concepts in African Research Ethics
- Scientific Validity, Varied Understanding of Human Tissue and Medicine
- Sharing Research Benefits
- Ubuntu and Bioethics
- African Ubuntu
- Western Bioethics
- Juxtaposing Ubuntu and Bioethics
- Contributions of Ubuntu Ethics to Bioethics
- Personhood and Moral Standing
- Human Dignity and Capabilities
- Environmental Philosophy
- Personal Autonomy and Shared-Value in Bioethics: An African Communal Ethics Outlook
- African Communal Values and Ethics
- Communal and Processual Personhood
- African Values and Ethics Principles
- Theories of Autonomy in Bioethics
- The Nature of Value and Value of Personal Autonomy
- The Value of Personal Autonomy in African Socio-cultural Contexts of Healthcare
- Ought-onomy as the Alternative Principle
- Part IV: Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Logic
- African Epistemology: Past, Present, and Future
- Introductory Remarks
- African Epistemology and the Senses of the Past, Present, and Future
- African Epistemology: Past Discourse
- African Epistemology: Present Focus
- African Epistemology: Future Concerns
- Concluding Remarks
- Knowledge and Testimony in African Communitarian Epistemology
- The Idea of an African Epistemology
- The Idea of a Communitarian Epistemology
- The Meaning and Nature of African Communitarian Epistemology
- Knowledge in African Communitarian Epistemology
- Testimony, Oral Tradition, and Knowledge Acquisition in ACE
- Exploring Ignorance and Injustice in African Epistemology
- Enlightenment Period, Eurocentrism, and Epistemological Tyranny
- Epistemic Injustice
- Testimonial Injustice
- Hermeneutical Injustice
- Epistemic Injustice and the Prejudicial Marginalization of the African Knower
- Epistemology of Ignorance and the Altering of African Epistemic Traditions
- Overcoming Epistemic Injustice and Epistemology of Ignorance
- Trivalent Logic, African Logic, and African Metaphysics
- Bivalent and Trivalent Logics
- Trivalence in Aymar, Janus, and Pierce
- Aymar Logical System
- Janus Logic
- Charles Sanders Peirce´s Trivalent Logic
- Trivalence in African Logic
- African Logic and African Metaphysics
- Part V: Political Philosophy
- African Political Philosophy
- Defining African Political Philosophy
- African Philosophy
- African Political Ethics
- Botho/Ubuntu
- African Political Ethics Through Botho/Ubuntu (Botho Politics)
- Consultation/Therisanyo
- Respect for Individuality
- Importance of People
- Democracy
- Shared Knowledge Is Important for Harmonious Living
- Communal Participation and Mutuality
- Doing Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy from Below
- The Discipline of African Social and Political Philosophy.
- African People Can and Already Do Social and Political Philosophy
- A Manifesto for Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophers
- Democracy in Africa
- Anocracy: Another Trajectory of Democracy in Africa
- How to Develop African Social and Political Philosophy from Below
- Why Civil Disobedience, and Why Sudan?
- Philosophizing from Below While Democratizing from Below
- The Philosophy of Human Rights: The Akan Model
- Critiquing Arguments Against Liberal Democracy in Africa
- Human Rights and Justice Principles in Traditional Akan Ethics
- The Place of Human Rights in Akan Ethics
- Human Rights in Akan Ethic of Social Life
- Human Rights and Justice in Akan Politics
- Human Rights and Justice in Akan Economic Life
- Human Rights and Justice in the Religious Life of Akans
- Human Rights and Justice in Akan Traditional Legal System
- Technologies of Human Rights Protection, Sovereignty, and Freedom
- Technologies of Human Rights Protection
- Sovereignty, Freedom, and Technology
- Reading for the Political: Beyond Digital Sovereignty and Digital Freedom
- African Philosophy of Development
- The Problem of Development in Africa
- Theories of Development
- The Modernization Theory
- Dependency Theory
- The Cultural Theory
- The Reconstructionist Theory
- Toward an African Philosophy of Development
- Part VI: Feminist Philosophy
- Gender and Afro-personhood
- The Afro-Communitarian Conception of Personhood
- Gap 1: Heteropatriarchy as a Regulatory Norm in Afro-Personhood Theories
- Gap 2: Race as a Totalizing Category
- Separating the Theory from Society
- An African Feminist Interrogation of Existential Epistemology: Women as the ``Other of the Other´´ in (Post)Colonial Africa
- The Colonization of Africa
- The Colonial Existential Epistemology of Othering Africans
- African Women as the Other of the Other in Colonial and Contemporary Africa
- A Feminist Deconstruction of Colonial Existential Epistemology
- Part VII: Philosophy and the Nonhuman
- The Nonhuman in African Philosophy
- Introduction: African Humanism and the Nonhuman Turn
- The Nonhuman in African Thought: From Al-Inkishafi to Postcolonial African Texts
- Al-Inkishafi: A Nineteenth-Century Philosophical Primer
- The World Is Worthless and Destructive
- The World Is Impermanent and Deceptive
- Conclusion: The Nonhuman, Language, and Genre
- The Animal in African Philosophy
- Animals and African Philosophy
- Ontology and Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Social, Political and Moral Philosophy
- Aesthetics
- Philosophy of Education
- Part VIII: Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Key Concerns in African Existentialism
- African Philosophical Perspectives on the Meaning of Human Existence
- Relationality and the Meaning of Life
- Death and the Meaning of Life
- The Existentiality of Suffering and Meaning of Life
- Modern Africa and the Crisis of Identity
- African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life
- The Love Theory of the Meaning of Life
- The ``God´s Purpose´´ Theory of Meaning
- Destiny Theory of the Meaning of Life
- Divine Law
- Vital Force
- The Communal View
- (Yoruba) Cluster View
- Living a Religious Life
- (Contemporary) Cluster View (CCV)
- African Phenomenology: Introductory Perspectives
- Introduction.
- Hountondji and the Struggle for Meaning.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Imafidon, Elvis Handbook of African philosophy
- ISBN:
- 9783031251498
- 3031251490
- OCLC:
- 1404061118
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