Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy Doing African Philosophy with Language /

• Main Author: Kayange, Grivas Muchineripi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 135
• Subjects: Analysis (Philosophy).; African languages.; Ethnology-Africa.; Semantics.; Analytic Philosophy.; African Languages.; African Culture.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he argues that people are engaging in a phil...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Figurative Utterances And Meaning
• Chapter 1. Philosophical Framework For Doing African Philosophy
• Chapter 2. Pragmatic Semantics And Chichewa Proverbs
• Chapter 3. Meaning Of Taboos Using Counterfactual Logic
• Chapter 4. Doing African Philosophy With Metaphors
• Chapter 5. Riddles, Meaning And Rationality/Logic
• Part II: Conceptual Analysis: Truth, Beauty And Meaning
• Chapter 6. The Chewa Logical Concept Of Truth
• Chapter 7. The Chewa Concept Of Beauty And Meaning
• Part III: African Communitarianism (Ubuntu) Vs African Individualism Through Language
• Chapter 8. Conceptual Analysis Of Ubuntu/Umunthu And Meaning
• Chapter 9. Deducing Individualism In African Society Through The Study Of Language.