CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES II. AFRICA, VOLUME 1




PERSON AND COMMUNITY

Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, I





by

KWASI WIREDU

KWAME GYEKYE

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: The Ghanaian Tradition of Philosophy

by Kwasi Wiredu

PROLOGUE: Crisis in African Cultures

by W. Emmanuel Abraham  

PART I AFRICAN IDENTITY

1. Sources of African Identity

by W. Emmanuel Abraham  

2. Problems in Africa's Self-Definition in the Contemporary World

by Kwasi Wiredu

 

PART II KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

3. Knowledge and Truth: Ewe and Akan Conceptions

by N.K. Dzobo  

4. African Symbols and Proverbs as Sources of Knowledge and Truth

by N.K. Dzobo  

Part III ANTHROPOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS

5. Person and Community in Akan Thought

by Kwame Gyekye

6. The Image of Man in Africa

by N.K. Dzobo  

7. Death and the Afterlife in African Culture

by Kwasi Wiredu  

8. Immortality and the Nature of Man in Gra Thought

by Joyce Engmann  

Part IV ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

9. Moral Foundations of an African Culture

by Kwasi Wiredu  

10. Towards Moral Development in Contemporary Africa: Insights from Dangme Traditional Moral Experience

by J.N. Kudadjie  

11. Values in a Changing Society: Man, Ancestors and God

by N.K. Dzobo  

12. Traditional Political Ideas, Their Relevance to Development in Contemporary Africa

by Kwame Gyekye

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 



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