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How African is philosophy in Africa?

open access: yes, 2019
Let me straight from the beginning confess one thing: I am not happy with the phrase “African Philosophy” used to describe a subject-matter, a specific discipline in the university curriculum. Why? Because it seems to particularize a kind of intellectual
Hountondji, Paulin J.
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Dimensions of Epistemology and the Case for Africa’s Indigenous Ways of Knowing

open access: yes, 2015
The debates within African philosophical practice have concerned its status, relevance and methodology appropriate or usable for doing it. Many African philosophers still express reservations concerning the importance of Africa’s indigenous ways of ...
Udefi, Amaechi
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Filosofia africana e etnofilosofia: Uma abordagem da concepção de Paulin Hountondji a partir do baraperspectivismo

open access: yes, 2016
Resumo: Este trabalho é uma abordagem da concepção de filosofia africana em Paulin Hountondji e de sua crítica ao livro Filosofia bantu. Tal abordagem se desenvolve com base no conceito de baraperspectivismo, um paradigma de produção teórica que nasceu ...
dos Santos, Rodrigo
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La philosophie: écriture ou pensée? Pour une relecture critique de Paulin Hountondji

open access: yes, 2016
Nowadays, Paulin Hountondji is considered as a great critic of a certain type of philosophy that occurred in Africa during the ’60s and which was called ethnophilosophy by him and Marcien Towa.
Bitang, Adoulou
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The Ethics of Globalizing Bioethics. [PDF]

open access: yesEthics Biol Eng Med, 2011
Rennie S, Mupenda B.
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Africa\u27s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization

open access: yes, 2004
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, freedom escapes the drawbacks of otherness, as defended by ethnophilosophy, while exposing the idiosyncratic inspiration of Eurocentric universalism ...
Kebede, Messay
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Youth hedonistic behaviour: moderating role of peer attachment on the effect of religiosity and worldview. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Adolesc Youth, 2014
Hamzah SR   +4 more
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Development and the African Philosophical Debate

open access: yes, 1999
The split of African philosophical thinking between the schools of ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy shows the involvement of philosophical issues in the African development process. Indeed, the philosophical debate does no more than revive the
Kebede, Messay
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Philosophic sagacity and intercultural philosophy: Beyond Henry Odera Oruka [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this work, I attempt to contribute to the future of African and intercultural philosophy. This is undertaken by a comparative appraisal of the late lamented Kenyan philosopher Henry Odera Oruka's (1944-1995) philosophic sagacity, and intercultural ...
Mosima, Pius, Mosima, P.M.
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Ibuanyidanda (Complementary Reflection), Communalism and Theory Formulation in African Philosophy

open access: yes, 2012
This paper avers that most attempts at formulating viable theories in African philosophy are saddled with intrusions of ethnophilosophic and ethnocentric types: The author identifies this as the phenomenon of “unintended ethnocentric commitment ...
Asouzu, Innocent I.
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