This volume is a collection of chapters about contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade such as xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. The text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of the Indigenous Knowledge System.The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy.
Contributors come from a variety of different backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to philosophy students and researchers.
Table of Content
Preface.- The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy.- Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy.- How African is Philosophy in Africa?.- Doing Philosophy in the African Place: A Perspective on the Language Challenge.- The Fallacy of Exclusion and the Promise of Conversational Philosophy in Africa.- How Conversational Philosophy Profits from the Particularist and the Universalist Agenda.- Examining the Method and Praxis of Conversationalism.- Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Alternative.- African Ethics and Agent-Centred Duties.- On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics.- How to Report on War in the Light of an African Ethic.- Taking African Virtue Ethics and Character Training Principles to the Schools.- Ubuntu as a plausible Ground for a Normative Theory of Justice from the African Place.- Remedial Approach to Cultural Globalization and Intercultural Competence.- Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development.- Totality by Analogy; or: The Limits of Law and Black Subjectivity.- The African Philosopher and the Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS).- Changes, Adaptation and Complementary Noetic Transformation.- Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care.- The Struggle to Forgive: Some Philosophical – Theological Reflections.- The Themes of Nihilism, Pessimism, and Optimism in Ibuanyidanda and Consolation Ontologies.- African Philosophy and Intellectual History.- Index.
About the author
Jonathan O. Chimakonam Ph.D, was a senior lecturer (2016-2018) at the University of Calabar, Nigeria and is now at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the convener of the professional African philosophy society, The Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP) and the founding editor of Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions. He is winner of the Jens Jacobsen Research Award for Outstanding Research in Philosophy. He is the African philosophy Area Editor in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jonathan propounded the theories of Ezumezu logic and Conversational thinking.
Edwin Etieyibo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his Ph D from the Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, writing a dissertation on David Gauthier’s Moral Contractarianism and the Problem of Secession, which presents a critical examination of Gauthier’s account of morality that links rationality with preferences explained by expected utility. He taught for a number of years at Athabasca University and the University of Alberta before moving to the University of the Witwatersrand. His teaching and research interest broadly covers ethics, social and political philosophy, social contract theories, history of philosophy, philosophy of education and children, and African socio-political economics and philosophy.
Ike Odimegwu, Ph D. is a Professor of Philosophy at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He is widely published in learned journals and international presses. He is currently the Dean of Postgraduate School at his university.
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