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Edwin Etieyibo, Polycarp Ikuenobe - Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person

Av Edwin Etieyibo, Polycarp Ikuenobe

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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.
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Edwin Etieyibo is professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand. Polycarp Ikuenobe is professor of philosophy at Kent State University.

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This collection of essays constitute testaments to the depth of a foremost contemporary African philosopher’s reflections on one of the most important issues which determine the direction/quality of human existence as a gregarious being. Are human beings atoms and individuals, with no connections or obligations to any other, but the self? Or, are human beings the products of families, communities, and societies and, therefore, beings that bear responsibility for the well-being of others as well as of self? As humanity navigates the 21st century, coming from the declining fortunes of destructively dominant Western traditions which privilege violence, inequality, and bigotry of all forms, centering African understanding of personhood as a social, community-based being—local and global—is a project which harkens back to the role Africa has placed in birthing human civilization and which has ensured the survival of post-apartheid South Africa grounded in Ubuntu philosophy. The essays in this volume will continue to serve as reference markers for scholarship and research into African/global humanity in the years and decades to come.

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