Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

by Dismas A. MasoloKatrin Flikschuh Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 24/07/2020

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Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhood—especially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” —has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with various aspects of Menkiti’s account of person and community. The contributors examine this account in relation to themes such as individualism, communalism, rights, individual liberty, moral agency, communal ethics, education, state and nation building, elderhood and ancestorhood. Through these themes, this book, edited by Edwin Etieyibo and Polycarp Ikuenobe, shows that Menkiti’s account of personhood in the context of community is both fundamental and foundational to epistemological, metaphysical, logical, ethical, legal, social and political issues in African thought systems.

ISBN:
9781498583664
9781498583664
Category:
Social & political philosophy
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
24-07-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lexington Books

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