Rethinking benefit sharing in collaborative human genetic research from an Afrocommunitarian perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 This article draws on reflections about humanness, friendliness and partiality, in the writings of Afro-communitarians to develop principles for thinking critically about why benefit sharing, what may count as benefits within the context of human ...
Cornelius Ewuoso +2 more
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The Difference between Moderate and Limited Communitarianism
ArụmarụkaThis 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 Limited Communitarianism: Matolino’s Thinking and the Changing African World
ArụmarụkaIn 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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Some Practical Applications of Bernard Matolino’s Limited Communitarianism
ArụmarụkaBernard 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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Community and Communitarianism in Toni Morrison: Restoring the Self and Relating with the Other
Societies, 2021 Toni Morrison discusses the rebirth of the entire Black race through self-recovery. However, her novels are not limited to the identity of Black women and people but are linked to a wider community.
TaeJin Koh, Saera Kwak
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Bernard Matolino’s Outline of the Basis for a New Afro-Communitarian Democracy
Arụmarụka, 2022 In this paper, I engage with Bernard Matolino’s proposal for a new Afro-communitarian democracy as presented in his works “An Outline of the basis of a new Afro-communitarian political theory”, “Afro-Communitarian Democracy” and “Consensus as Democracy ...
Joyline GWARA
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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 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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Trumping communitarianism: crime control and forensic DNA typing and databasing in Singapore [PDF]
, 2014 Liberalism and communitarianism have figured prominently in discussions of how to govern forensic DNA practices (forensic DNA typing and databasing). Despite the prominence of these two political philosophies and their underlying values, no studies have ...
Toom, Victor
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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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