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Are We Finished with the Ethnophilosophy Debate? A Multi-perspective Conversation
No full textIn line with the tradition of the conversational school of philosophy, this essay provides a rare and unique space of discourse for the authors to converse about the place of the ‘ethno’ in African philosophy. This conversation is a revisit, a renewal of the key positions that have coloured the ethnophilosophy debate by the conversers who themselves are notable contributors to arguments for and against the importance of ethnophilosophy in the unfolding of African philosophy particularly in the last decade or so. There are four key positions that have been argued for in the pages of this paper:(1)Ethnophilosophy is not African philosophy and it is useless and inimical to the growth of African philosophy and should thus be jettisoned – Matolino.(2)Ethnophilosophy is the foundation for African philosophy as it provides the raw materials for African philosophical discourse – Ogbonnaya and Agada.(3)Ethnophilosophy has some value for African philosophy, but it is definitely not the foundation for genuine African philosophy the way criticism and rigours are – Attoe.(4)Ethnophilosophy can be adequately conceived as African philosophy particularly in terms of its etymology as culture or race philosophy, dealing with philosophical or critical reflections on, and exposition of, immanent principles in African thought – Mangena and Etieyibo.These conversers provide good arguments for the positions they hold, arguments that are, of course, open for further interrogation. Two points can be concluded from the ethnophilosophy debate provided in this essay:(1)The disparities in views among conversers, it seems, stem ultimately from the understanding of ethnophilosophy that each converser holds, which varies from the notion of a method used at some point in the history of African philosophy to an etymological understanding as culture philosophy.(2)The debate about ethnophilosophy in the spirit of any philosophical tradition remains a perennial one that is yet to be concluded.This essay certainly concretises what is on ground and paves the way for further discussions
Book Review: Philosophic Sagacity and Intercultural Philosophy: Beyond Henry Odera Oruka
No full textBook Title: Philosophic Sagacity and Intercultural Philosophy: Beyond Henry Odera OrukaBook Author: Pius Maija MosimaAfrican Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands (2016). pp. 187. ISBN: 978-90-5448-152-2
Book Review: African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black Race
No full textBook Title: African Philosophy and the Otherness of Albinism: White Skin, Black RaceBook Author: Elvis ImafidonPublisher: Routledge. Pages: Pp. xvi + 146. Year of Publication: 201
African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient
Get PDFThis chapter affirms the importance of the ethno in African moral discourse with particular reference to bioethical discourse. It begins by showing that the deductions of moral theories – normative, meta or applied – from African thought are made possible through a deliberate and careful understanding of the ethno-ethics of African peoples often revolving around the concept of relationality or Ubuntu. It instantiates this by showing that the primary contribution of African bioethicists to the predominantly Western notion of principlism and its four cardinal principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice is theprinciple of relationality which is extrapolated from African ethno-moral culture. If this is the case, the chapter asserts further that the understanding of who the othered patients are in an African bioethical context and how the principlist principle of relationality may be beneficial or harmful to them is only possible within the context of the ethno of personhood in African cultures. The chapter concludes by highlighting some practical ways healthcare providers can take the ethno and context more seriously in order to improve the quality of healthcare delivery to patients
Withdrawn: Book Review: Exploring the Question of Reincarnation in African Philosophy within an Intracultural and Intercultural Context
No full textThere was a mix-up during the publication process. The Book Review file that was supposed to be part of this Vol 7 No 2 was mistakenly switched for the one that was published in Vol 7 No 1. We are withdrawing this Book Review piece because it has already been published in Vol 7 No 1.Book Title: Reincarnation: A Question in the African Philosophy of MindBook Author: Hasskei M. MajeedUNISA Press. Pages: 275. Year of Publication: 201
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Bewaji and Fayemi On God, Omnipotence and Evil
Get PDFThis paper explores the contradiction of positing the existence of a God who is at once omnipotent and not omnipotent in respect of his power that arises in the thought of two African philosophers of religion, John A.I. Bewaji and Ademola Kazeem Fayemi who accept the limitation thesis that projects a limited God and deny the legitimacy of the transcendence view in Yoruba and, by extension, African thought. I demonstrate in this paper that the contradiction arises from the fact that while Bewaji and Fayemi explicitly deny the legitimacy of the transcendence view in Yoruba and, by extension, African thought, they implicitly accept the view and unwittingly and illegitimately attempt to reconcile the conflicting views through the analysis of the notions of God’s creatorship, co-creatorship, and controllership. I conclude by recommending that instead of attempting to reconcile the antinomy of God’s existence in African philosophy of religion, African philosophers should acknowledge the legitimacy of the two conflicting theses constituting the antinomy and, accordingly, sustain logical consistency by strictly thinking within either the framework of limitedness or the framework of transcendence
The apparent conflict of transcendentalism and immanentism in Kwame Gyekye and Kwasi Wiredu’s interpretation of the Akan concept of God
No full textIn this paper I compare Kwame Gyekye’s transcendentalist interpretation of the Akan conception of God with Kwasi Wiredu’s immanentist interpretation. I highlight the tension between the two thinkers’ interpretations of Akan religious thought within the broader conflict between transcendence and immanence. Using the analytic, critical, and interpretative method, I show how the reconciliation of Gyekye and Wiredu’s divergent, yet paradoxically overlapping visions can be effected in the idea of panpsychism. In the process of effecting this reconciliation, I open up a new area of research in African philosophy of religion that African philosophers will find rewarding to engage
Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity, by Aribiah David Attoe
No full textPalgrave Macmillan, 2022, 117 + xxii
ISBN: 978-3-030-91109-
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