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Retraditionalizing the Quest: A Histori-cultural Case for Contemporary African Developmental Thought Pattern [PDF]
, 2022 Critical developmental thinking started as a speculative debate of difference(s) and otherness, metamorphosing through the obstacles of the ideologies of ‘primitive’ mentality, ‘barbaric’ cultures, and ‘uncivilized’ civilizations to its current state ...
Ademowo, Adeyemi Johnson +3 more
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Chinese Music Through the Prism of Ethnophilosophy
Journal of Lifestyle and SDGs ReviewIntroduction: This article describes the basic aesthetic orientation and cultural characteristics of Chinese musical culture. It examines the origin of Chinese musical culture and the process of its development from a philosophical point of view, and presents the Chinese national philosophical thought embedded in Chinese musical culture in the context ...
Jia Mengtian +3 more
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Claude Sumner and the Quest for an Ethiopian Philosophy [PDF]
, 2020 African philosophy emerged out of the rationality debates and the need to affirm the existence of a unique African intellectual tradition that primarily reflects on the legacies of colonialism.
Merawi, Fasil
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, 2016 “African thinking,” “African thought,” and “African philosophy.” These phrases are often used indiscriminately to refer to intellectual activities in and/or about Africa.
Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe
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Sage Philosophy, Rationality and Science: The Case of Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2014 This essay uses examines contemporary Ethiopian philosophy to determine the practicality of sage philosophy and 'its connections to rationality and science. The early Messay .
Verharen, CC
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Ethnophilosophy and Public Morality in an African Tribe
Open Journal of Philosophy, 2015 The paper is a field research work delving into the ethnophilosophy of Ogba religion. Its focal point is on the people’ worldview, as it pertains to life, public morality, value and Adamic sins in Ogba Land Rivers State, Nigeria. It posits that the natural or physical world is an extension of the supernatural or the spiritual and must be understood in ...
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Ethnophilosophie - Ausweg oder Irrweg?
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 1995 Wahrscheinlich hat jede menschliche Gesellschaft eigene Formen des Philosophierens in dem Sinn entwickelt, daß Erklärungen über Ursprung und Struktur der Welt, über das Wesen des Menschen und über richtige und falsche Formen des Verhaltens gegeben und begründet wurden.
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Tradition, African Philosophy and the Issue of Development in Africa [PDF]
, 2019 One of the central themes in postcolonial African philosophy is that of the relationship between tradition and African development. One of the fundamental questions relating to this is what should be the attitude of African to their traditional cultural ...
Dada, Sunday Olaoluwa
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Narrative and Experience of Community as Philosophy of Culture [PDF]
, 2009 This paper argues that the distinctive feature of African philosophising is a communitarian outlook expressed through various forms of narrative. The paper first illustrates the close relationship between narrative and community in the African cultural ...
Masolo, DA
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Ubuntu versus the core values of the South African Constitution [PDF]
, 2009 At the dawn of South Africa’s new era of constitutionalism the Constitutional Court introduced “African law and legal thinking” and ubuntu to South African jurisprudence as part of the Constitution’s source of democratic values.
Keevy, I.
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