TY - BOOK AU - Eze,Emmanuel Chukwudi TI - African philosophy: an anthology T2 - Blackwell philosophy anthologies SN - 0631203389 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - B5305. A36 1997 U1 - 199.6 PY - 1998/// CY - Malden, Mass. PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Philosophy, African KW - Philosophy, Black N1 - Includes index; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Pt. I; What is African Philosophy? --; 1; African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today --; 2; Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa --; 3; African, African American, Africana Philosophy --; 4; The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy --; 5; Contemporary Moslem Philosophies in North Africa --; Pt. II; Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity --; 6; The Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception --; 7; "Chi" in Igbo Cosmology --; 8; The Sociality of Self --; Pt. III; Philosophy, Politics, and Society --; 9; Leaders must not be Masters --; 10; Consciencism --; 11; Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy --; 12; Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle --; I; Black Revolution --; II; Human Rights, Civil Rights --; 13; Philosophy, Politics, and Power: An Afro-American Perspective --; Pt. IV; Ethics --; 14; "Mutumin Kirki": The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa --; 15; Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community, and the Moral Order --; 16; Concerning Violence --; 17; Morals and the Value of Human Life --; 18; Moral Reasoning versus Racial Reasoning --; Pt. V; On Knowledge and Science --; 19; Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture I, Culture II --; 20; "Divination": A Way of Knowing? --; 21; The Problem of Knowledge in "Divination": The Example of Ifa --; 22; The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language --; 23; African Traditional Thought and Western Science --; 24; How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought --; 25; Literacy, Criticism, and the Growth of Knowledge --; Pt. VI; Philosophy and Colonial Encounter --; 26; Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism --; 27; Discourse on Colonialism --; 28; The Wretched of the Earth --; 29; Colonialism and the Colonized: Violence and Counter-Violence --; 30; Cultural Nationalism in the Colonial Period --; 31; National Liberation and Culture (Return to the Source) --; Pt. VII; Philosophy and Race --; 32; The Conservation of Races --; 33; The Illusions of Race --; 34; Du Bois on the Invention of Race --; 35; Racism and Culture --; 36; Racism and Feminism --; Pt. VIII; Philosophy and Gender --; 37; The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives --; 38; Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory --; 39; Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images --; 40; The Erasure of Black Women --; 41; The Curious Coincidence of Feminine and African Moralities --; Pt. IX; Philosophy and Transatlantic African Slavery --; 42; The Nature of Slavery --; 43; The Concept of Slavery --; 44; The Origin of Negro Slavery --; 45; The Interesting Narrative. --; 46; Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery --; 47; Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave --; Pt. X; Ontology and the Nature of Art --; 48; Breath --; 49; Bantu Ontology --; 50; The Igbo World and Its Art --; 51; The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy --; 52; The Duke's Blues --; Pt. XI; Philosophy of Religion --; 53; God, Faith, and the Nature of Knowledge --; 54; Must God Remain Greek? --; 55; The Problem of Evil: An Akan Perspective --; 56; Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s --; Index ER -