An African Philosophy of Personhood, Morality, and Politics

• Main Author: Molefe, Motsamai (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Philosophy, Asian.; Ethnology-Africa.; African literature.; Non-Western Philosophy.; African Culture.; African Literature.
• Physical Description: X, 179 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030155612
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15561-2

This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personhood as a robust or even foundational ethical category. Personhood refers to the moral achievements of the moral agent usually captured in terms of a virtuous character, which have consequences for both morality and politics. The aim is not to argue for the plausibility of the ethical and political consequences of the idea of personhood. Rather, the book showcases some of the moral-political content and consequences of the account it presents.