An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy

An Introduction to African Legal Philosophy

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  • Author: John Murungi
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 0739174673
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 238

This is an introductory book on African legal philosophy. The book claims that African legal philosophy exists and is intelligible in the context of African culture, just as every other legal philosophy has its cultural foundation. What law is, how it is thought, how it is interpreted, and how it is applied takes place with thing the parameters of African culture. At a time when the imposition of Western culture on Africans has to be reckoned with, African legal philosophy is, in part, a response to this imposition. It ought to have a liberating effect.


Africanizing African Legal Ethics

Africanizing African Legal Ethics

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  • Author: John Murungi
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000762548
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 165

This book is a philosophical inquiry into indigenous African legal ethics, asking what is African about African legal ethics? Taking us beyond a geographical understanding of Africa, the author argues for an African legal ethics that is distinct from non-African African legal ethics which are rooted in Euro-Western constructions. De-silencing African voices on African legal ethics this book decolonizes the prevailing wisdom on legal ethics and broadens our understanding of how law in Africa bears on ethics in Africa or, conversely, on how ethics bears on law in Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars of African philosophy, philosophy of law, and legal ethics.


African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems

African Legal Theory and Contemporary Problems

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  • Author: Oche Onazi
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9400775377
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 293

The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that have an indelible African mark on them, a common theme that runs throughout the essays in this book is that African legal theory has been excluded, under-explored or under-theorised in the search for solutions to such contemporary problems. The essays make a modest attempt to reverse this trend. The contributors investigate and introduce readers to the key issues, questions, concepts, impulses and problems that underpin the idea of African legal theory. They outline the potential offered by African legal theory and open up its key concepts and impulses for critical scrutiny. This is done in order to develop a better understanding of the extent to which African legal theory can contribute to discourses seeking to address some of the challenges that confront African and non-African societies alike.


An Introduction to African Legal Culture

An Introduction to African Legal Culture

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  • Author: O. B. Olaoba
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Culture and law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 92


An Introduction to Africana Philosophy

An Introduction to Africana Philosophy

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  • Author: Lewis R. Gordon
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521675468
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. African diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that much of modern thought emerged out of early conflicts between Islam and Christianity that culminated in the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and from the subsequent expansion of racism, enslavement, and colonialism which in their turn stimulated reflections on reason, liberation, and the meaning of being human. His book takes the student reader on a journey from Africa through Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, and back to Africa, as he explores the challenges posed to our understanding of knowledge and freedom today, and the response to them which can be found within Africana philosophy.


The Golden Book

The Golden Book

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  • Author: Charles Mwalimu
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9781433108488
  • Category : Christianity and law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1118

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African Philosophical Currents

African Philosophical Currents

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  • Author: John Murungi
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 135123739X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 142

The history of the human world has reached a stage where no philosophical community can any longer philosophize in isolation from other philosophical communities. The African philosophical community is not an exception and neither is any other philosophical community. There is a widespread notion in the West that philosophy originated in Greece and found its way throughout Europe, from where it migrated to Africa. This book argues that Philosophy did not migrate to African from anywhere but that it is radically native to all communities. The chapters cover the erasure of African philosophy, African philosophical departures, the threat that Christianity has posed to African philosophy, African legal philosophy, African musical aesthetics and connections with classical philosophy. Arguing that the landscape of philosophy has a place not only for Africans but also for all human beings and that African philosophers are among the architects of this landscape, this book is an important read for scholars and students of African philosophy.


An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

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  • Author: Roscoe Pound
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316


Human Dignity in African Philosophy

Human Dignity in African Philosophy

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  • Author: Motsamai Molefe
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030932176
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 85

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity. To do so, it employs two strategies. In the first instance, it considers African theories of human dignity: (1) vitality; (2) community; (3) Personhood. Secondly, it explores the plausibility of these theories by applying them to select applied ethics themes, specifically: animal ethics, disability ethics and euthanasia. The aim of this book is not to argue for the plausibility of these African theories, but to familiarize the global audience of philosophy, ethics and related disciplines (legal studies, sociology, bioethics and so on) with a neglected African perspective on this vital concept. The books is aimed at scholars of philosophy interested in non-European and specifically African perspective.


Philosophy in an African Place

Philosophy in an African Place

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  • Author: Bruce B. Janz
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 9780739136683
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

Over the past few decades, there has been much effort put forth by philosophers to answer the question, "Is there an African philosophy?" Bruce B. Janz boldly changes this central question to "What is it to do philosophy in this (African) place?" in Philosophy in an African Place. Janz argues that African philosophy has spent a lot of time trying to define what African philosophy is, and in doing so has ironically been unable to properly conceptualize African lived experience. He goes on to claim that such conceptualization can only occur when the central question is changed from the spatial to a new, platial one. Philosophy in an African Place both opens up new questions within the field, and also establishes "philosophy-in-place", a mode of philosophy which begins from the places in which concepts have currency and shows how a truly creative philosophy can emerge from focusing on questioning, listening, and attending to difference. This innovative new approach to African philosophy will be useful not only to African and African-American philosophers, but also to scholars interested in any cultural, intercultural, or national philosophical projects.