A celebration of philosophy & classics
By: edited by M. Carleton Simpson, H.M. Majeed, Kofi Ackah, Emmanuel Ifeany Ani
Contributors: University of Ghana. Department of Philosophy and Classics
Series: University of Ghana readers; Arts and humanities series -- no. 1; University of Ghana readers; University of Ghana arts and humanities series -- no. 1.
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited in conjunction with the University of Ghana, Legon
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Banbury
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780956930774
Subjects: Philosophy
Notes: University of Ghana, Department of Philosophy and Classics, 65th anniversary commemorative reader.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Ernest Aryeetey; title: Preface / M. Carleton Simpson; title: I. HISTORY AND HISTORICAL ROOTS; title: 1. Classical civilization and national development / A.A. Kwapong; title: 2. J. B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah's conceptual congruences and divergences / Martin Odei Ajei; title: 3. The comic poet and contemporary issues: a case study of the Wasps, Lysistrata, and the Frogs of Aristophanes / Peter Kojo Tsiwah Grant; title: 4. Disentangling the "cogito" / William E. Abraham; title: II. SCIENCE, RATIONALITY AND CULTURE; title: The theological origins of Western philosophy and science / Kofi Ackah; title: 6. The philosophical significance of Einstein's relativity theory / C.B.K. Archampong, Ed. Helen Lauer; title: 7. Are there cultural universals? / Kwasi Wiredu; title: 8. Rationality, supernaturalism, and humanism: traditional Akan thought questions some Western claims / H.M. Majeed; title: III. POLITICS AND IDENTITY; title: 9. "We the people": in pursuit of the politics of inclusion  / Kwame Gyekye; title: 10. Multiculturalism and th notion of cultural identity / Nancy O. Myles; title: 11. On the very idea of a Western knowledge tradition: analysing statements that address economic regression in Africa / Helen Lauer; title: IV. REASON AND REASONS; title: 12. Emotion and reason in Euripides' Medea / Kofi Ackah and Vida Owusu-Boateng; title: 13. Moral education: a philosophical analysis / Joseph Assamoa.