| Description |
x, 438 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
sect. IA. Ethnophilosophy. Africa and the Africans / Edward W. Blyden -- The conservation of races / William Edward Burghardt Du Bois -- How natives think / Lucien Levy-Bruhl -- Bantu philosophy / Placide Tempels -- African religions and philosophy / John Mbiti -- On negrohood: psychology of the African Negro / Leopold S. Senghor -- Cheikh Anta Diop, the "stolen legacy," and afrocentrism / Jeffrey Crawford -- "The instruction of any" and moral philosophy / David James -- sect. IB. The critique of ethnophilosophy. How not to compare African thought with Western thought / Kwasi Wiredu -- The particular and the universal / Paulin Hountondji -- The uncompleted argument: Du Bois and the illusion of race / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Negritude, nationalism, and nativism: racists or racialists? / Albert G. Mosley -- Africa and the imperative of philosophy: a skeptical consideration / Oyekan Owomoyela -- Contemporary thought in French speaking Africa / Abiola Irele -- sect. II. Magic, witchcraft, and science. African traditional thought and Western science / Robin Horton -- An essay on African philosophical thought: the Akan conceptual scheme / Kwame Gyekye -- Excerpts from Knowledge, belief, and witchcraft: analytical experiments in African philosophy / Barry Hallen and J.O. Sodipo -- On the existence of witches / Sophie Oluwole -- Magic, witchcraft, and ESP: a defence of scientific and philosophical skepticism / P.O. Bodunrin -- sect. III. Moral philosophy and aesthetics. Custom and morality: a comparative analysis of some African and Western conceptions of morals / Kwasi Wiredu -- Morality, art, and African philosophy: a response to Wiredu / Parker English and Nancy Steele Hamme -- Traditional African aesthetics: a philosophical perspective / Innocent C. Onyewuenyi -- On the distinction between modern and traditional African aesthetics / H. Gene Blocker. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, African.
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| Added Author |
Mosley, Albert G.
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| ISBN |
0023841818 |
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