The Author: Stephen Theron was born in England in 1939. He studied philosophy at Leeds, Pittsburgh and Stockholm and has taught at universities in Colombia, Sudan, South Africa and Lesotho. He is the author of Morals as Founded on Natural Law (P. Lang 1987), The Recovery of Purpose (1993) and Philosophy or Dialectic? (1994), as well as of some forty journal and reference articles. He lives in Stockholm, where he teaches at the diocesan seminary.

• Contents: African philosophy, the idea and debate about it - Ethnicity and philosophy - How philosophy in fact arose, became established and was maintained - Truth, truth-claims and Western tradition - Human rights and truth - Technology and tradition - Analogy and myth.

The Author: Stephen Theron was born in England in 1939. He studied philosophy at Leeds, Pittsburgh and Stockholm and has taught at universities in Colombia, Sudan, South Africa and Lesotho. He is the author of Morals as Founded on Natural Law (P. Lang 1987), The Recovery of Purpose (1993) and Philosophy or Dialectic? (1994), as well as of some forty journal and reference articles. He lives in Stockholm, where he teaches at the diocesan seminary.

• Contents: African philosophy, the idea and debate about it - Ethnicity and philosophy - How philosophy in fact arose, became established and was maintained - Truth, truth-claims and Western tradition - Human rights and truth - Technology and tradition - Analogy and myth.

The Author: Stephen Theron was born in England in 1939. He studied philosophy at Leeds, Pittsburgh and Stockholm and has taught at universities in Colombia, Sudan, South Africa and Lesotho. He is the author of Morals as Founded on Natural Law (P. Lang 1987), The Recovery of Purpose (1993) and Philosophy or Dialectic? (1994), as well as of some forty journal and reference articles. He lives in Stockholm, where he teaches at the diocesan seminary.

• Contents: African philosophy, the idea and debate about it - Ethnicity and philosophy - How philosophy in fact arose, became established and was maintained - Truth, truth-claims and Western tradition - Human rights and truth - Technology and tradition - Analogy and myth.