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Arụmarụka, 2021 Jonathan Chimakonam’s advocacy of conversational thinking has taken African philosophy by storm. It is not an exaggeration to say that no one working in African philosophy, today, can say they are unaware of the so-called Conversational Society of ...
Bernard Matolino
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Philosophers’ debt to their students: The South African case
Transformation in Higher Education, 2020 Philosophy teachers owe their students a little more than mere formal instruction of topics popular in philosophy. What they owe their students is largely influenced by philosophy’s claims to be a discipline that is principally dedicated to the study and
Bernard Matolino
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Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2018 One of the most difficult intellectual problems which humans have over the ages sought to resolve is the question of personal identity. And in disparate philosophical systems, including the African, reflections on personhood have sometimes taken an ethical or religious turn, or both.
Hasskei Majeed, Majeed, Hasskei
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The Philosophical Forum, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 143-159, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper discusses one particular way we may put the idea of sharing in ubuntu philosophy into practice: moderate selflessness. Moderate selflessness is an important tool that might help us pursue other‐regarding behaviour alongside the agent's genuine well‐being interests to help disrupt the antagonistic gap between humanity and nonhumanity.
Olusegun Steven Samuel
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A social ontology of “maximal” persons
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 147-163, March 2022., 2022 Abstract In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward by Kwame Gyekye (1992) and Bernard Matolino (2014) denying Menkiti’s twin propositions that persons differ ontologically from human beings and that human attitudes, behaviours and practices constitute persons in social reality. They argue that his account of “maximal” persons, rooted in
Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
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What Ubuntu Cannot Do for South Africa and Zimbabwe
Arụmarụka, 2023 Academic discourse on ubuntu, both in South Africa and Zimbabwe, coincided with the arrival of freedom in these countries. Ubuntu’s revival sought to show that there was an African alternative to the oppressive regimes that had cruelly governed both ...
Bernard MATOLINO
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What is this Thing Called the System of Conversational Thinking (SCT)? A Reply to Critics
Arụmarụka, 2021 This essay is an attempt to address some concerns raised in rejoinders to my theory. I summarise the main concerns in the question, “What is this thing called the System of Conversational Thinking?” Three respectable colleagues, Chad Harris, Bruce Janz ...
Jonathan Chimakonam
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An Outline of the Basis of a New Afro-Communitarian Political Theory of Democracy
Arụmarụka, 2022 My aim in this paper is to offer an explanation of the orientation I have adopted in my work on African political theory. This explanation is necessitated by some puzzlement that has arisen as a result of the commitment I have sought to pursue.
Bernard MATOLINO
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The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 137-156, Summer 2024.Abstract Oftentimes, we have been informed that democracy is the best form of government possible. In African politics, this view has mostly been adopted and pursued as true. Surprisingly, democracy has mostly failed as a system in most parts of the continent—with most democratic governments undermining the mandates of the citizens who are supposed to ...
Aribiah David Attoe
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Ethnophilosophy as a global development goal
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 147-161, April 2024.Abstract The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but this paper approaches the debate in search of lessons about philosophy in general. The paper shows how this ongoing debate has been obscured by varying understandings of “ethnophilosophy” and that a de ...
James Tartaglia
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