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Title African philosophy : an introduction / edited by Richard A. Wright.

Imprint Lanham : University Press of America, c1984.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  199.6 Af83 1984    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 3rd ed.
Description xvi, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents Question of African philosophy / P. O. Bodunrin -- Do we have an African philosophy? / Henri Maurier -- Investigating African philosophy / Richard A. Wright -- African philosophical tradition / Lacinay Keita -- African foundations of Greek philosophy / Henry Olela -- Time in Yoruba thought / John A. A. Ayoade -- Causal theory in Akwapim Akan philosophy / Helaine K. Minkus -- How not to compare African thought with Western thought / J. E. Wiredu -- Categories of Mtu and the categories of Aristotle / Thomas J. Blakeley -- Person and community in African traditional thought / Ifeanyi A. Menkiti -- Human person and immortality in IBO metaphysics / Richard C. Onwuanibe -- Akan concept of a person / Kwame Gyekye -- African and Western philosophy : a comparative study / Benjamin Eruku Oguah -- Philosophical justifications for contemporary African social and political values and strategies / Diana E. Axelsen -- Comparative analysis of Pan-Africanism / Benyamin Neuberger.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (266-306) and index.
Subject Philosophy, African.
Added Author Wright, Richard A., 1943-
ISBN 0819137855 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $11.50
0819137847 (alk. paper) : $22.75
Standard No. UKM b8441330
NLGGC 833674803

 
    
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