A Defence of Moderate Communitarianism: A Place of Rights in African Moral-Political Thought [PDF]
, 2018 This article attempts to defend Kwame Gyekye’s moderate communitarianism (MC) from the trenchant criticism that it is as defective as radical communitarianism (RC) since they both fail to take rights seriously. As part of my response,
Molefe, Motsamai
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Personhood and Rights in an African Tradition [PDF]
, 2017 It is generally accepted that the normative idea of personhood is central to African moral thought, but what has not been done in the literature is to explicate its relationship to the Western idea of rights.
Motsamai, Molefe
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Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism: Making Place for Nationalism [PDF]
, 2012 This essay takes as its point of departure, the debate between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism in international normative theory. It expresses several dissatisfactions with this debate, criticizing its inattention to politics and history, its ...
Rao, Rahul
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What's the big idea? A critical exploration of the concept of social capital and its incorporation into leisure policy discourse [PDF]
, 2005 Starting from the overwhelming welcome that Putnam's (2000) treatise on social capital has received in government circles, we consider its relative merits for examining and understanding the role for leisure in policy strategies. To perform this critique
Blackshaw, T, Long, J
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Tracing Matolino’s Basis of a New Afro-Communitarian Political Theory of Democracy
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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An African perspective on the partiality and impartiality debate: Insights from Kwasi Wiredu's moral philosophy [PDF]
, 2017 In this article, I attempt to bridge the gap between partiality and impartiality in moral philosophy from an oft-neglected African perspective. I draw a solution for this moral-theoretical impasse between partialists and impartialists from Kwasi Wiredu's,
Molefe, Motsamai
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Personhood and (Rectification) Justice in African Thought [PDF]
, 2018 This article invokes the idea of personhood (which it takes to be at the heart of Afrocommunitarian morality) to give an account of corrective/rectification justice.
Molefe, Motsamai
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It is time to balance communitarianism and individualism in South African medical education
African Journal of Health Professions Education, 2015 To the Editor: Recent well-meaning global and South African (SA) reforms in medical education primarily consider an agenda of social accountability. We are concerned that this approach may be the result of an excessive focus on the purpose of education ...
L Campbell, A Ross, R MacGregor
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Locating Rights in the Afro-Communitarian Scheme: Testing the Compatibilist Argument
Arụmarụka, 2022 In this paper, I explore the relationship between individual rights and duties within the Afro-communitarian discourse in African political philosophy. The notion of individual rights is prominent in modern African political philosophy, which is usually ...
Tosin Adeate
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The possibility of living with together and democracy
Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2004 In this paper, I discuss the democratic meaning that A.Touraine mentioned the politics of Subject and the possibility of living with together in relation to questions under debate between liberalism and communitarianism.
Jun Kainuma
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