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Philosophy and an African Culture
Author: Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980-04-10
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521296472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What can philosophy contribute to African culture? What can it draw from it? Could there be a truly African philosophy that goes beyond traditional folk thought? Kwasi Wiredu tries in these essays to define and demonstrate a role for contemporary African philosophers which is distinctive but by no means parochial. He shows how they can assimilate the advances of analytical philosophy and apply them to the general social and intellectual changes associated with 'modernisation' and the transition to new national identities. But we see too how they can exploit traditional resources and test the assumptions of Western philosophy against the intimations of their own language and culture. The volume as a whole presents some of the best non-technical work of a distinguished African philosopher, of importance equally to professional philosophers and to those with a more general interest in contemporary African thought and culture.
Leopards of the Magical Dawn
Author: Nze Chukwukadibia E. Nwafor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781312165144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Igbo people and their unique culture represents a mercurial bridge of time, with potentials of linking the contemporary mind to the mystic realms from whence original knowledge can be profoundly grasped and brought down to earth for practical applications of many vital interests. In this work, Nwafor, a reincarnated Eze Dibia of Ururo-Umunze descent, distills the knowledge, wisdom and experiences of nine life-times of intense spiritual work, culminating in a unique exegesis of Igbo reality and cultural phenomenon.
Essays on Igbo World View
Author: Damian Ugwutikiri Opata
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Awka People
Author: Amanke Okafor
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9789782221674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-03-27
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 900445800X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the contents: The necessity of intercultural philosophy (Jan Hoogland).- Some reflections on Aristotle's notion of time in an intercultural perspective (Juergen Hengelbrock).- Time in Buddhism and Leibniz: an intercultural perspective (Hari Shankar Prasad).- Time and temporality from the Japanese perspective (Tomonaga Tairako).- Time and African thought (Kwasi Wiredu). (Barbara Arizti Martin).
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An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy
Author: John Murungi
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-04-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0739174673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A book on legal philosophy, necessarily, focuses attention on law. In addition to this focus, An Introduction to an African Legal Philosophy focuses attention on philosophy. The link between law and philosophy is brought into relief, which is done through an African context. An attempt is made to spell out what is African about legal philosophy without being cut off of African legal philosophy from non-African legal philosophy. The book draws attention to the view that a basic component of African legal philosophy consists of an investigation of what it is to be an African, and because an African is a human being among other human beings, the investigation is about what it is to be a human being. Ubuntuism is an African-derived word that captures this mode of being human. Moreover, because human beings are cultural beings, African cultural context guides the investigation. Inescapably, it is claimed that, every legal philosophy is embedded in a culture. African legal philosophy is not an exception. It is deeply rooted in African culture –a culture that is today shaped, in part, by a European colonialist culture. One feature that will strike one as one reads the book is that the book approaches African legal philosophy as a means of decolonization of African culture. African legal philosophy can accomplish this intelligently and effectively if it is itself decolonized. In doing this it contrasts sharply with mainstream Western legal philosophy.
An Igbo Civilization
African Philosophy and the Hermeneutics of Culture
Author: Theophilus Okere
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783825882174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Series: Studies in African Philosophy is a forum for the publication and wider dissemination of researches and reflections of value on all aspects of African philosophy. While recognising the special advantage of interdisciplinary approach in modern scholarship, it retains a special predilection for works that have special African philosophic import. Although Theophilus Okere's book African Philosophy has made remarkable impact on African philosophical scholarship, many may not be aware of the way he tried to apply his preferred method to other areas of the philosophical investigation in Africa and to overcome the risk of relativism through the promotion of intercultural dialogue in philosophy. The essays published in this volume bear testimony to the multivalent character of Okere's contribution to African philosophy. Most of the essays are about Okere's hermeneutics of culture. Some of the authors examine the method in itself, while others focus attention on its application to specific philosophical themes. Book jacket.
