African Spirituality and Ethics : Decolonising a False Dichotomy / / Munyaradzi Felix Murove |
Autore | Murove Munyaradzi Felix |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (142 pages) |
Disciplina | 170.96 |
Soggetto topico | Spirituality - Africa |
ISBN | 3-031-45590-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: The Politicization of Spirituality in Southern Africa -- The Bible and Political Power -- The Religious Origins of Politics and Power -- References -- Chapter 3: Essentials of African Spirituality -- The Spirit -- Ancestors -- The Call -- Water Spirits: Njuzu -- Land Spirits -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: A Symbiotic Relationship Between African Spirituality and Ethics -- Ancestors and Ethics -- Spirit and Ethics -- A Spirituality of a Relational Cosmology -- Vital Force as Spirit and Life -- Life as Supervening on Death -- Life and the African Paranormal Experiences -- References -- Chapter 5: African Spirituality as the Foundation for a Relational Ethic -- References -- Chapter 6: African Communitarian Ethics and Spirituality -- African Ethics and the Making of a Humanistic Spirituality -- A Crisis of Civilization -- Civilization and Individualism -- An African Model of a Communal Spirituality -- Ubuntu and Being Human -- References -- Chapter 7: Healing in African Spirituality and Ethics -- African Spirituality and Healing -- Cultural Relativity of Health and Healing -- The Capitalistic Disruption of the African Traditional Healthcare System -- National Healthcare Insurance and the Legacy of Colonialism -- Justice and the Ethic of Concern in the Provision of Healthcare -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799236703321 |
Murove Munyaradzi Felix | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
African values, ethics, and technology : questions, issues, and approaches / / Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
Disciplina | 170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics - Africa
Technology - Moral and ethical aspects - Africa Disruptive technologies - Africa Technological innovations - Africa |
ISBN | 3-030-70550-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910482989003321 |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-253-01750-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460941303321 |
Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
ISBN | 0-253-01750-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797632903321 |
Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
ISBN | 0-253-01750-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806214203321 |
Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Normative justification of a global ethic [[electronic resource] ] : a perspective from African philosophy / / Uchenna B. Okeja |
Autore | Okeja Uchenna B. <1983-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (173 p.) |
Disciplina |
170
170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, African
Ethics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-89177-8
0-7391-7691-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 On the Concept of a Global Ethic; 2 The Context of the Normative Justification; 3 The Notion of African Ethics; 4 Reconstruction of the Global Ethic Project; 5 African Philosophy and the Normativity of a Global Ethic; 6 Normativity Beyond Sympathetic Impartiality; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452679003321 |
Okeja Uchenna B. <1983-> | ||
Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Normative justification of a global ethic [[electronic resource] ] : a perspective from African philosophy / / Uchenna B. Okeja |
Autore | Okeja Uchenna B. <1983-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (173 p.) |
Disciplina |
170
170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, African
Ethics |
ISBN |
1-283-89177-8
0-7391-7691-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 On the Concept of a Global Ethic; 2 The Context of the Normative Justification; 3 The Notion of African Ethics; 4 Reconstruction of the Global Ethic Project; 5 African Philosophy and the Normativity of a Global Ethic; 6 Normativity Beyond Sympathetic Impartiality; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779471303321 |
Okeja Uchenna B. <1983-> | ||
Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Normative justification of a global ethic : a perspective from African philosophy / / Uchenna B. Okeja |
Autore | Okeja Uchenna B. <1983-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (173 p.) |
Disciplina |
170
170.96 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy, African
Ethics |
ISBN |
1-283-89177-8
0-7391-7691-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 On the Concept of a Global Ethic; 2 The Context of the Normative Justification; 3 The Notion of African Ethics; 4 Reconstruction of the Global Ethic Project; 5 African Philosophy and the Normativity of a Global Ethic; 6 Normativity Beyond Sympathetic Impartiality; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813306803321 |
Okeja Uchenna B. <1983-> | ||
Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following / / edited by Michał Araszkiewicz, Paweł Banaś, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki, Krzysztof Płeszka |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 170.96 |
Collana | Law and Philosophy Library |
Soggetto topico |
Law—Philosophy
Law Political science Language and languages—Philosophy Logic Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History Philosophy of Law Fundamentals of Law Philosophy of Language |
ISBN | 3-319-09375-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I: Philosophical Problems of Normativity and Rule Following -- 1. Rules, Norms and Principles: A Conceptual Framework; Paul Boghossian -- 2. Separating Rules from Normativity; Jaap Hage -- 3. Communalism, Correction and Nihilist Solitary Rule-Following Arguments; William Knorpp -- 4. Knowing Way Too Much: a Case against Semantic Phenomenology; Krzysztof Posłajko -- 5. The Meaning of Normativity of Meaning; Leopold Hess -- 6. On the Kantian Background of “Kripkenstein” Rule-following Paradox; Przemysław Tacik -- 7. Rules as Patterns Between Normativism and Naturalism; Piotr Kozak -- 8. Normativity and Rationality: Framing the Problem; Joanna Klimczyk -- 9. Rules and Rights; Tomasz Pietrzykowski -- Part II: Normativity of Law and Legal Norms -- 10. Rules and Normativity in Law; Brian Bix -- 11. Obligation: A Legal-Theoretical Perspective; Stefano Bertea -- 12. On Obligations, Norms and Rules; Dietmar von der Pfordten -- 13. Philosophy, Neuroscience and Law: The Conceptual and Empirical, Rule-following, Interpretation and Knowledge; Dennis Patterson, Michael S. Pardo -- 14. Gunman Situation, Vicious Circle and Pure Theory of Law; Monika Zalewska -- 15. Rules as Reason-Giving Facts: A Difference-Making-Based Account of the Normativity of Rules; Peng-Hsiang Wang and Linton Wang -- 16. Rules, Conventionalism and Normativity: Some Remarks Starting from Hart; Aldo Schiavello -- 17. Are Fundamental Legal Reasons Internal? A Few Remarks on the Internal Point of View; Adam Dyrda -- Part III: Rules in Legal Interpretation and Argumentation -- 18. The Normativity of Rules of Interpretation; Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki -- 19. Legal Interpretation as a Rule-guided Phenomenon; Paweł Banaś -- 20. To Whom does the Law Speak? Canvassing a Neglected Picture of Law’s Interpretive Field; Paolo Sandro -- 21. Interpretation and Understanding in Law. The Complexity of Easy Cases; Ralf Poscher -- 22. The Ordinary Meaning of Rules; Brian G. Slocum -- 23. Blindly Following the Rules: Revisiting the claritas Doctrine; Hanna Filipczyk -- 24. Why Legal Rules are not Speech Acts and what Follows from that; Marcin Matczak -- 25. The Validity of Moral Rules and Principles as a Legal Problem; Andrzej Grabowski -- 26. Implicatures within the Legal Context – a rule-based analysis of the possible content of conversational maxims in law; Izabela Skoczeń -- 27. Why are Words not Enough? or a Few Remarks on Traffic Signs; Michał Dudek -- IV. Rules in Legal Logic and AI&Law -- 28. In Defense of the Expressive Conception of Norms; Andrej Kristan -- 29. Rule-following and Logic; Jan Woleński -- 30. Negating Rules; Giovanni Battista Ratti -- 31. Legal Rules: Defeasible or Indefeasible?; Michał Araszkiewicz -- 32. The Role of Argumentation Theory in the Logic of Judgments; Marcelo Ceci -- 33. Towards Multidimensional Rule Visualization; Vytautas Čyras, Friedrich Lachmayer. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484278603321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|