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Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person
About this book
Ifeanyi Menkiti's articulation of an African conception of personhoodāespecially in "Person and Community in African Traditional Thought" āhas 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.
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Yes, you can access Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person by Edwin Etieyibo,Polycarp Ikuenobe in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & African History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Caught Between Two Manifestos
- 2 Discussions of African Communitarianism with Specific Reference to Menkiti and Rawls
- 3 Persons and Citizens
- 4 The Sociality of Persons
- 5 Personal Persistence and Narrative Unity
- 6 Menkitiās Account of the Social Ontology of African Community and Persons
- 7 African Communitarianism and the Imperative for Moral Education
- 8 Community, Individuality, and Reciprocity in Menkiti
- 9 āElderhoodā and āAncestorhoodā
- 10 An Outline of Menkitiās Metaphysical Commitment
- 11 Personhood and State Building in Africa
- 12 I Canāt Unless You Can
- 13 Before a Common Soil
- 14 Who Gets a Place in Person-Space?
- 15 Menkiti as a Man of Community
- Afterword
- Index
- About the Contributors