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Tracing Matolino’s Basis of a New Afro-Communitarian Political Theory of Democracy [PDF]

Arụmarụka, 2022
Bernard Matolino is one of the outstanding philosophers who left an indelible mark on the development of African philosophy. In his philosophical works, Matolino has mainly focused on the idea of personhood in African philosophy, a critique of (African ...
Simon MAKWINJA
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Some Practical Applications of Bernard Matolino’s Limited Communitarianism [PDF]

Arụmarụka
Bernard Matolino’s critique of both the radical and moderate communitarian conception of personhood in African philosophy has itself been widely criticized by scholars such as Anthony Oritsegbugbemi Oyowe, Kai Horsthemke, and Mesembe Edet, just to ...
Maduka ENYIMBA, Chukwuemeka AWUGOSI
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A Strange Conversation [PDF]

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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BOOK REVIEW: A page in African ethics: A review of Bernard Matolino’s Personhood in African philosophy [PDF]

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.
Majeed, Hasskei
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Reflections on Bernard Matolino’s Contribution to Philosophy in Africa

Arụmarụka, 2022
This paper reflects on Bernard Matolino’s contribution to philosophy. For heuristic purposes, I stipulate a distinction between what we may call the negative and positive projects when considering a philosopher’s body of work. The ‘negative project’ of a
Motsamai MOLEFE
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A social ontology of “maximal” persons [PDF]

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 147-163, March 2022., 2021
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 ...
Oyowe, Oritsegbubemi Anthony
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On Limited Communitarianism: Matolino’s Thinking and the Changing African World [PDF]

Arụmarụka
In the corpus of African philosophy, Bernard Matolino has made a substantial contribution to the development of communitarian theory, offering a fresh perspective on the concept.
Mutshidzi MARAGANEDZHA
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The function of “it” in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s normative account of personhood: a response to Bernard Matolino [PDF]

Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, 2017
This article is a response to Bernard Matolino’s criticisms against Ifeanyi Menkiti’s elucidations on the normative notion of personhood in African philosophy. This article argues that Menkiti’s article is best understood to be ultimately focused on articulating the normative notion of personhood; so understood, Menkiti’s analysis eschews many of the ...
Molefe, Motsamai, Maraganedzha, Mutshidzi   +1 more
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The Difference between Moderate and Limited Communitarianism [PDF]

Arụmarụka
This article uses philosophical analysis to defend the status of limited communitarianism as a standalone theory in African political philosophy. Early African scholars like Ifeanyi Menkiti argued that the community takes priority over the individual in ...
Lungelo Siphosethu MBATHA
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On Modern Afro-Communitarianism and Matolino’s Commitment [PDF]

Arụmarụka
As human behaviour, practices, and needs evolve in Africa, there is doubt regarding the continued application of Afro-communitarianism as an explanatory model.
Tosin ADEATE
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