Ontologized ethics
Subtitle: new essays in African meta-ethics
By: edited by Elvis Imafidon and John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780739185032; 9780739185049
Subjects: Ethics; Metaethik; Metaethics; Morale sociale; Moeurs et coutumes
Description: This book examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one's orientation of being, or idea of what-is -- be it as an individual or a group of persons -- does, or should, determine one's concept of the good.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Moral traditions and moral revolution : a conceptual analysis / Segun Gbadegesin; title: The universality of morality; title: myth or reality / Sandra A. McCalla; title: On the ontological foundation of a social ethics in African traditions / Elvis Imafidon; title: Toward and African relational environmentalism / Kevin Gary Behrens; title: The ethical import in African metaphysics : a critical discourse in Shona environmental ethics / Munamato Chemhuru; title: A reinterpretation of gender power play in the metaphysics of adultery and moral exclusionism of married males in African culture / Isaac E. Ukpokolo; title: Beyond culpability : approaching male impotency through legitimated adultery in Esan metaphysics / Justina O. Ehiakhamen; title: Finding common grounds for a dialogue between African and Chinese ethics / Jim I. Unah; title: Critical reflections on Gyekye's humanism : defending supernaturalism / Motsamai Molefe; title: Life's origin in bioethics : implications of three ontological perspectives : Judeo-Christianity, western secularism, and the African worldview / Elvis Imafidon; title: A critical analysis of eldership-based ethics in African (Yoruba) thought / Elizabeth Oluwafunmilayo Kehinde; title: Moral values in African development / Chris Tasie Osegenwne; title: Neo-ontological challenge to negative atheism : Feuerbach's god of secularism / Jim I. Unah; title: Questioning African attempts to ground ethics on metaphysics / Thaddeus Metz.