Autore	Taiwo Olufemi
Edizione	[U.S. edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina	960.33
Soggetto topico	Civilization, Modern Philosophy, African
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-253-01278-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Why Africa must get on board the modernity express -- The sticky problem of individualism -- The knowledge society and its rewards -- Count, measure, and count again -- Process, not outcome : why trusting your leader, godfather, ethnic group, or chief may not best secure your advantage -- Against the philosophy of limits : installing a culture of hope.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465174403321

Autore	Park Peter K. J
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina	190.9/033
Collana	SUNY series, Philosophy and race
Soggetto topico	Philosophy - History - 18th century Philosophy - History - 19th century Continental philosophy - History Philosophers - Europe - Attitudes Racism Philosophy, African Philosophy, Asian
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4384-4643-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The Kantian school and the consolidation of modern historiography of philosophy -- The birth of comparative history of philosophy: Joseph-Marie Degerando's Histoire comparee des systêmes de philosophie -- India in Friedrich Schlegel's comparative history of philosophy -- The exclusion of Africa and Asia from the history of philosophy: the formation of the Kantian position -- Systematic inclusion of Africa and Asia under absolute idealism: Friedrich Ast's and Thaddä Anselm Rixner's histories of philosophy -- Absolute idealism reverts to the Kantian position: Hegel's exclusion of Africa and Asia -- The comparative history of philosophy in a theological polemic against Hegel.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452930603321

Edizione	[1st ed. 2023.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (417 pages)
Disciplina	405
Collana	The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Soggetto topico	Agriculture Applied ethics Philosophy of nature Philosophy, African Agricultural Ethics Philosophy of Nature African Philosophy
ISBN	3-031-43040-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Murimi munhu: A quest for decoloniality in ‘small scale’ subsistence farming in Zimbabwe -- The Kom Trilogic Worldview and Agrarian Philosophy -- Human Relation to Nature and African Agrarianism -- Manifestations of Bekwarra Agwunihe Philosophy in Land Ownership and Agricultural Practices -- The Confluence of African Agrarianism and Permaculture: Some Observations and Implications -- Bekwarra Communal Values, Food Ethics and Folkloric Conception and Interpretations of Animal-Human Relations -- Agrarian philosophy, community and Adam Smith: African agrarian economics -- Unpacking Ndebele agrarian metaphors for the promotion and preservation of communal social development -- The religious significance of mushrooms among the Shona people of Zimbabwe: An Ethnomycological approach -- In search for a pedagogy of African agrarian philosophy -- The Shona ‘Zunderamambo’ (agricultural welfare system) as a model for social responsibility: A task for higher education systems -- Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa as an agricentric Philosophy of Education: A Response to the crises of education in Africa -- Contemporary challenges in the development and use of agrarian communities’ local indigenous knowledge and practices for sustainable agriculture and climate adaptation: The Case of North West Cameroon -- Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention: Famine-induced Adoption Of Conservation Farming “Dhiga-hudye/Dig and eat” In Chivi Communal Lands Of Zimbabwe -- The practice of African traditional medicine and agrarianism in Zimbabwe: The Quest for this Karanga Agrarian Practice in Madamombe area of Chivi District -- Land Ethics among the Traditional Annangs of Southern Nigeria: Traditional Environmental Ethics, Challenging Contemporary Hostilities towards our Planet -- The Farm-Village Practice of Yorubas in West-Central Africa -- An Historical Appraisal of the Fig Tree (Ghim) and Dracaena (Nkeng nkeng) in Traditional Rulership of Bali Chamba Polities -- Towards Sensitising and Reorienting Contemporary Bekwarra against Deforestation: Prospects and Challenges -- African Endogenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Evolving an African Agrarian Philosophy -- Shangwe Environmental Ethics: A Panacea for Agrarian Problems in Gokwe -- Indigenous knowledge and agro-based livelihood dynamics in the Western Highlands of Cameroon -- Agrarian Rituals, Food Security and Environmental Protection in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon -- Indigenous African Eco-communitarian, Agrarian Philosophy: Lessons on Environmental Conservation and Sustainability from the Nso culture of North West Cameroon -- ‘Defending a Relational Account of Animal Moral Status’ -- Farming and Animals Welfare in the African Context -- The Inseparable Connection between African Metaphysics and African Agrarian Philosophy -- The Phenomenon of Male and Female Crops and Gender Equality in Igbo-African Agrarian Culture -- The Farm in Colonial and Postindependence Imagination: A Crisis of Continuity -- Conceptual frameworks for anAfrican Sustainable Agriculture: Beyond John Locke, the Cold War and the Scramble of World Religions -- Henry OderaOruka’sParental Earth Ethics as ethics of duty towards ecological fairness and global justice -- Socio-economic practices and pseudo-prosperity in the cocoa producing village of Bombe Bakundu (Cameroon), 1945-2000 -- Food Security as a Fundamental Human Right: A Philosophical Consideration from Africa -- Consumer Activism: Towards Redirecting the Moral economy of Food -- Rethinking Shangwe Traditional Philosophy in Resolving Agrarian Wrangles in Contemporary Gokwe Communities.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910831006403321

Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham Switzerland, : , : Springer, , 2019
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (321 pages)
Disciplina	363.70096 179.1
Collana	The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Soggetto topico	Philosophy, African Environmental ethics - Africa Environmental responsibility - Africa Environmental law, International
ISBN	9783030188078 3-030-18807-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Introducing African Environmental Ethics Moral Status and the African Environment -- 2. An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualis m and Holism -- 3. The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding -- 4. Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought: Beyond the Impasse -- l 5. The Criticism of Secular Humanism in African Philosophy Ubuntu and the Environment -- 6. Ubuntu Environmental Ethics: Conceptions and Misconceptions -- 7. Ubuntu and Environmental Ethics: The West Can Learn from Africa When Faced with Climate Change -- 8. African Environmental Ethics as Southern Environmental Ethics African Ecocentric Environmental Ethics -- 9. A (South) African Land Ethic? The Viability of an Ecocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics and Philosophy -- 10 .African Environmental Ethics: Lessons from the Rain-Maker’s Moral and Cosmological Perspectives -- 11. New Waves: African Environmental Ethics and Ocean Ecosystems Environmental Justice in African Philosophy -- 12. Environmental Justice: Towards an African Perspective -- 13. The African Emphasis on Harmonious Relations: Implications for Environmental Ethics and Justice -- 14. Expanding Nussbaum’s Eighth Capability Using African Environmental Ethics Questions of Animal Rights in African Philosophy -- 15. Moral Status of Non-human Animals from an African Perspective: In Defense of Moderate Anthropocentric Thinking -- 16. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics in Africa: From Anthropocentrism to Non-speciesism? -- 17. Decolonizing Human-Animal Relations in an African Context: The Story of the Mourning Elephants Issues of Environmental Pollution in Africa -- 18. Ethical Issues in Environmental Pollution: Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and Oil Industries in Tropical Regions—The Nigerian Niger-Delta Case -- 19. Niger Delta Environmental Crises and the Limitations of Africanizing Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Towards an Earth-Eco-Socialist Model -- 20. “Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness”: A Theological Reflection on the Solid Waste Problem in Ghana.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910337691603321

Autore	Wangeci Kinoti Hannah
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (277 p.)
Disciplina	170
Altri autori (Persone)	WanjohiG. Wakuraya WanjohiG. J
Collana	Studies in intercultural philosophy =Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie =Etudes de philosophie interculturelleStudien zur interkulturellen Philosophie
Soggetto topico	Ethics, Kikuyu Kikuyu (African people) Ethics - Kenya Philosophy, African
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-79292-X 9786612792922 90-420-3089-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CULTURAL SETTING -- HONESTY (WĨHOKEKU) -- GENEROSITY (ŨTAANA) -- JUSTICE (KĨHOOTO) -- COURAGE (ŨCAMBA) -- TEMPERANCE (WĨKINDĨRIA) -- GENERAL CONCLUSION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ARCHIVAL MATERIAL -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459640103321