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African Ethics

A Guide to Key Ideas
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This is the first comprehensive exploration of African ethics covering everything from normative ethics and applied ethics, to meta-ethics and methodology, as well as the history of its evolution. African Ethics provides an in-depth exploration of Ubuntu ethics which is defined as a set of values based on concepts such as reciprocity, mutual respect, and working towards the common good. Ubuntu ethics also strongly emphasize the place of human dignity. The book engages with both theory and practice and how these ethical ideas impact upon the actual lived experience of Africans. It also includes important political considerations such as the impact of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism on African ethics as well as the negative impact of apartheid and the renaissance made possible by the ‘The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ whose work was premised heavily on African ethical ideas. This book is not just a wide-ranging and incisive introduction but also a reformulation of key concepts and current debates in African ethics. Crucially, African Ethics is an inclusive text, one that speaks from an African perspective and contributes to the decolonizing of contemporary ethics.

Author Biography:

Jonathan O. Chimakonam is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the editor of Atuolu Omalu: Some Unanswered Questions in Contemporary African Philosophy (2015); African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation (2018) and African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women (2018). Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues is Associate Professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Hunan University, China. He is the editor of Animals, Race and Multiculturalism (2017), Philosophies of Multiculturalism (2019) and Comparative Just War Theory (2019).
Release date Australia
September 19th, 2024
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Jonathan O. Chimakonam
  • Edited by Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Pages
472
Dimensions
156x234x25
ISBN-13
9781350344662
Product ID
38219753

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