| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 343 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Philosophy and indigenous knowledge -- Philosophy and the orders of consciousness -- Revaluation of values and the demand for liberties -- Understanding personhood : an African philosophical anthropology -- Juok as the moral foundation of personhood -- Two forms of communitarianism : a comparison -- In lieu of a conclusion : a village symposium on experience. |
| Summary |
Revisiting African philosophy's classic questions, D.A. Masolo advances understandings of what it means to be human -- whether of African or other origin. Masolo reframes indigenous knowledge as diversity: How are we to understand the place and structure of consciousness? How does the everyday color the world we know? Where are the boundaries between self and other, universal and particular, and individual and community? From here, he takes a dramatic turn toward Africa's current political situation and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Communitarianism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Communitarianism. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Masolo, D.A. Self and community in a changing world. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253354815 (DLC) 2010000088 (OCoLC)428026596 |
| ISBN |
9780253004529 (electronic book) |
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0253004527 (electronic book) |
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9780253354815 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253354811 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253222022 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0253222028 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612818295 |
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