Kwame Gyekye

Kwame Gyekye (10 November 1939 – 13 April 2019) be Ghanaian philosopher, den person wey be important for de development of modern African philosophy. Na Gyegye be emeritus professor of Philosophy for University of Ghana, den Visiting Professor of Philosophy den African-American studies for Temple University.Weinberg, Justin (29 April 2019). "Kwame Gyekye (1939–2019)". Daily Nous. He be known for ein theory de concept of person-hood for de basis of Akan cultural paradigm top plus ein debate plus Kwasi Wiredu, wey dem dey see am as one of de defining moments of modern African philosophy.Wingo, Ajume (2017), Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), "Akan Philosophy of the Person", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2017 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2021-03-19

 Ein education 
He go Mfantsipim School. First nu na Gyekye study for University of Ghana, wey he go Harvard University, wer he obtain ein Ph.D. plus thesis for Græco–Arabic philosophy. He be Fellow for de Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center give Scholars, wey he be life-time Fellow for de Ghana Academy of Arts den Sciences."Kwame Gyekye | University of Ghana Alumni Relations Office". ar.ug.edu.gh. Retrieved 2018-12-02.

 Bibliography 

 1975: "Philosophical relevance of Akan proverbs" (Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy 4:2, pp. 45–53)
 1977: "Akan language and the materialism thesis: a short essay on the relations between philosophy and language" (Studies in Language 1:1, pp 237 44)
 1978: "Akan concept of a person" (International Philosophical Quarterly 18:3, pp. 277–87)
 1987: An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme
 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
 1995: revised edition (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) ISBN 1-56639-380-9
 1988: The Unexamined Life: Philosophy and the African Experience (Ghana Universities Press)
 1991: "Man as a moral subject: the perspective of an African philosophical anthropology" in The Quest for Man: The Topicality of Philosophical Anthropology, ed. Joris van Nispens & Douwe Tiemersma (Assen/Maastricht, Netherlands: VanGorcum)
 1992a: (ed. Gyekye & Kwasi Wiredu) Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies 1 (Washington D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy)
 1992b: "Person and Community" in 1992a
 1992c: "Traditional political ideas and values" in 1992a
 1995: "Aspects of African communitarian thought" (The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities)

 Secondary literature 

 "A Defense of Kwame Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism", Kibujjo M. Kalumba, Philosophical Papers Volume 49, 2020 - Issue 1.
 "Ethical Thought of Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye", George Kotei Neequaye, The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics.
 "The apparent conflict of transcendentalism and immanentism In Kwame Gyekye And Kwasi Wiredu's interpretation of the Akan concept of God", Ada Agada, Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions 6(1):23-38
 A Critical Exposition of Kwame Gyekye's Communitarianism,  O. S. Mwimnobi, Master of Arts thesis submitted in the University of South Africa (2003).

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