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  title info:
    title: Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy
  name:
    name part: Etieyibo, Edwin E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 365 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book takes stock of the strides made to date in African philosophy. Authors focus on four important aspects of African philosophy: the history, methodological debates, substantive issues in the field, and direction for the future. By collating this anthology, Edwin E. Etieyibo excavates both current and primordial knowledge in African philosophy, enhancing the development of this growing field.
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- Part I African Philosophy and History -- 2 African Philosophy in History, Context and Contemporary Times -- 3 The Journey of African Philosophy -- 4 History of Philosophy as a Problem: Our Case -- 5 The State of African Philosophy in Africa -- Part II Method in African Philosophy -- 6 Questions of Method and Substance and the Growth of African Philosophy -- 7 Between the Ontology and Logic Criteria of African Philosophy -- 8 The "Demise" of Philosophical Universalism and the Rise of Conversational Thinking in Contemporary African Philosophy -- 9 Is, Ought and All: In Defense of a Method -- Part III Substance of African Philosophy -- 10 An Examination of Menkiti's Conception of Personhood and Gyekye's Critique -- 11 Justification of Moral Norms in African Philosophy -- 12 The Importance of an African Social Epistemology to Improve Public Health and Increase Life Expectancy in Africa -- 13 The Question of Rationality in Kwasi Wiredu's Consensual Democracy -- 14 How to Ground Animal Rights on African Values: A Constructive Approach -- Part IV African Philosophy and Its Future -- 15 Philosophy and the State in Africa -- 16 Jéan-Paul Sartre and the Agenda of an Africanist Philosophy of Liberation -- 17 The Shaping of the Future of African Philosophy.
  note: edited by Edwin E. Etieyibo.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Asian
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology-Africa
  subject:
    topic: African languages
  subject:
    topic: Non-Western Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: African Culture
  subject:
    topic: African Languages
  classification: B5000-5289.2
  classification: 181
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319702261
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70226-1
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    record creation date: 180224
    record change date: 20191028231556.0
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