Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0739185039 ISBN 13 : 9780739185032

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2013

Synopsis

Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one's orientation of being, or idea of what-is - as an individual or as a group of persons - does, or should, determine one's concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to be? The aim of this collection of essays, with emphasis on an African philosophical context, will be to establish more firmly and vigorously whether there is an intrinsic link between ontology and morality - that is, whether, and, if so, how the proper norms for human actions can be explained and validated once we make lucid ideas about metaphysical topics such as human nature, community, relationality and spirituality. The essays included in this volume focus rigorously on ethical issues such as communalism, adultery, environmental ethics, and bioethics with the primary aim of showing whether the link between such issues and metaphysical beliefs is trivial or intrinsic.

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À propos des auteurs

Elvis Imafidon teaches philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma Nigeria. He has published journal articles touching on issues in metaphysics, African philosophy, social philosophy, and philosophy of science. He is also the founding editor of Critical Essays: A Graduate Journal of Philosophy

John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Researcher at the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy, University of the West Indies, Jamaica; Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa; and Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is the author of The Rule of Law and Governance in Indigenous Yoruba Society (2016) and co-editor of Identity Re-creation in Global African Encounters (2023), Fragmented Identities of Nigeria (2022), and Ontologized Ethics (2013).

M. Molefe is senior researcher at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa (CLEA), at the University of Fort Hare.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739185039
• ISBN 13: 9780739185032
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Éditeur: Imafidon Elvis, Bewaji John Ayotunde Isola
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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