Author: Munyaradzi Felix Murove Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 492
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive volume on African ethics, centered on Ubuntu and its relevance today. Important contemporary issues are explored, such as African bioethics, business ethics, traditional African attitudes to the environment, and the possible development of a new form of democracy based on indigenous African political systems. In a world that has become interconnected, this anthology demonstrates that African ethics can make valuable contributions to global ethics. It is not only African academics, students, organizations, or those individuals committed to ethics that are envisaged as the beneficiaries of this book, but all humankind. A number of topics presented here were inspired by a Shona proverb that says, Ndarira imwe hairiri (One brass wire cannot produce a sound). The chorus of voices in African Ethics demonstrates this proverbial truism.
Author: Kemi Ogunyemi Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1789905966 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
African philosophies about the way to live a flourishing life are predominantly virtue-oriented. However, narratives of African conceptions of virtue are uncommon. This book therefore helps bridge an important gap in literature. Authors writing from South Africa, Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Côte D’Ivoire and Nigeria share research on indigenous wisdoms on virtue, displaying marked consensus about the communitarian nature of African virtue ethics traditions and virtues essential for a flourishing life. They also show how indigenous virtue ethics improve corporate practices. This book will be a launchpad for further studies in Afriethics as well as a medium for sharing rich knowledge with the rest of the world.
Author: L. D. Hulley Publisher: Van Schaik Publishers ISBN: 9780627023583 Category : Christian ethics Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
The topics discussed in this book are important to South Africans as they search for a new identity in a so-called secular community. A useful reader for academics and lay-people alike, this study empowers one to make up one's own mind with regard to ethical issues and related Biblical guidelines.
Author: Samuel Waje Kunhiyop Publisher: Zondervan Academic ISBN: 0310107083 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
This is an introduction to African Christian ethics for Christian colleges and Bible schools. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the theory of ethics, while the second discusses practical issues. The issues are grouped into the following six sections: Socio-Political Issues, Financial Issues, Marriage Issues, Sexual Issues, Medical Issues, and Religious Issues. Each section begins with a brief general introduction, followed by the chapters dealing with specific issues in that area. Each chapter begins with an introduction, discusses traditional African thinking on the issue, presents an analysis of relevant biblical material, and concludes with some recommendations. There are questions at the end of each chapter for discussion or personal reflection, often asking students to reflect on how the discussion in the chapter applies to their ministry situation.
Author: Kai Horsthemke Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137504056 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and practices that they do not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents like Western ethics does. This book investigates whether this is correct and what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics.
Author: Toyin Falola Publisher: ISBN: 9781787446717 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 439
Book Description
Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.
Author: Richard Rorty Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231150563 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work not only rejects all theories of truth but also dismisses modern epistemology and its preoccupation with knowledge and representation. At the same time, the celebrated pragmatist believed there could be no universally valid answers to moral questions, which led him to a complex view of religion rarely expressed in his writings. In this posthumous publication, Rorty, a strict secularist, finds in the pragmatic thought of John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, William James, and George Santayana, among others, a political imagination shared by religious traditions. His intent is not to promote belief over nonbelief or to blur the distinction between religious and public domains. Rorty seeks only to locate patterns of similarity and difference so an ethics of decency and a politics of solidarity can rise. He particularly responds to Pope Benedict XVI and his campaign against the relativist vision. Whether holding theologians, metaphysicians, or political ideologues to account, Rorty remains steadfast in his opposition to absolute uniformity and its exploitation of political strength.
Author: Munyaradzi Felix Murove
Author: Kemi Ogunyemi
Author: Christine Wanjiru Gichure
Author: L. D. Hulley
Author: Samuel Waje Kunhiyop
Author: Kai Horsthemke
Author: Toyin Falola
Author: Richard Rorty
Author: A. T. Dalfovo
Author: A. A. Van Niekerk