Trends and issues in African philosophy
By: F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781433107504
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The historical phase; title: Western discourse on Africa; title: Egyptology : an African response; title: Afrocentricity; title: Conclusion; title: African philosophy as ethnophilosophy; title: Tempels on Bantu philosophy; title: African religions and philosophy; title: Horton on African and western thought systems; title: Other ethnophilsophers and general critiques; title: The professional approach; title: Ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy; title: Myth and reality of African philosophy; title: Traditional thought and modern philosophy in Africa; title: Wiredu's truth as opinion; title: A case against the professional school; title: Philosophic sagacity; title: Sage philosophy and philosophic sagacity; title: Relevance of sagacious reasoning; title: Keita's objections; title: Three ways of approaching philosophic sagacity; title: Masolo on philosophic sagacity; title: Odera Oruka's mission in African philosophy; title: Nationalist-ideological philosophy; title: Nationalist-ideological philosophy and ethnophilosophy; title: Consciencism; title: Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism; title: African socialism and federalism in post-colonial Africa; title: African philosophical hermeneutics; title: Universalism and particularism; title: Hermeneutical orientation in African philosophy.