دانلود کتاب Person and community: Ghanaian philosophical studies I

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Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
The Ghanaian tradition of philosophy......Page 7
Crisis in African cultures......Page 19
1 African Identity......Page 42
Sources of African identity......Page 43
Problems in Africa's self-definition in the contemporary world......Page 62
2 Knowledge and understanding......Page 74
Knowledge and truth: Ewe and Akan conceptions......Page 75
African symbols and proverbs as source of knowledge and truth......Page 87
Anthropology and metaphysics......Page 101
Person and community in African thought......Page 102
The image of man in Africa......Page 124
Death and the afterlife in African culture......Page 137
Immortality and the nature of man in Ga thought......Page 153
Ethics and political philosophy......Page 191
The moral foundations of an African culture......Page 192
Towards moral and social development in contemporary Africa: insights from Dangme traditional moral experience......Page 206
Values in a changing society: Man, ancestors and God......Page 222
Traditional political ideas: Their relevance to development in contemporary Africa......Page 240
Index......Page 255
Notes on the contributors......Page 263
Back cover......Page 270