Well-Being in African Philosophy
eBook - PDF

Well-Being in African Philosophy

Insights for a Global Ethics of Development

  1. 289 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Well-Being in African Philosophy

Insights for a Global Ethics of Development

About this book

Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development, edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and its insights into global ethics of development. Drawing from longstanding debates on communitarianism in the context of personhood in African philosophy, as well as those in intercultural philosophy, the diverse contributors present manifold ways to philosophize about well-being from African contexts. Hailing from sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, they address questions of human well-being related to the major global challenges of our time, such as climate change and socio-economic, gender, and racial inequality in society, education, and organization. This collection, building on the work of African independence philosophers as well as oral traditions from a critical development studies perspective, offers fresh views on well-being, development, and morality, thus contributing to global ethics from an African vantage point.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781978776135
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophie
Subtopic
Études afro-américaines

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I: Conceptions of Well-Being in African(a) Intercultural Philosophy
  9. Chapter 1: Human Well-Being in Intercultural Philosophical Perspective: A Focus on the Akan Philosophy of Wiredu, Gyekye and Appiah
  10. Chapter 2: This Thing Called Communitarianism, or Why We Should Not Be Afraid of the Community
  11. Chapter 3: Being-in-Community as the Basis of Well-Being in African Philosophy
  12. Chapter 4: Personhood, Well-Being and Ethical Maturity in African Philosophy
  13. Part II: Well-Being in African Contexts
  14. Chapter 5: Social Ethics and Human Well-Being in Igbo Society
  15. Chapter 6: Religion, Education and the Well-Being of Citizens in Nigeria
  16. Chapter 7: A Non-Individualistic Notion of the Common Good
  17. Chapter 8: The Pursuant of Well-Being in Contemporary Africa
  18. Part III: Contributions to a Global Ethics of Development
  19. Chapter 9: Ujamaa: Society as Family
  20. Chapter 10: African Pre-colonial Accomplishments in Political, Social and Economic Well-Being
  21. Chapter 11: A Philosophy of Race in the Melting Pot of Globalisation and Its Implications for Africa
  22. Chapter 12: Gilles Paquet’s Hermeneutics of Belongingness: On the Collaborative Ethics of Global Development
  23. Index
  24. About the Editors and Contributors