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Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction: The Shifting Focus of Philosophy in Africa; 2: Revisiting the Terms of African Philosophy; Introduction; Nature of the Poverty; Recalibrating the Discipline; Conclusion; 3: African Metaphysics: Traditional and Modern Discussions; Introduction; The Meaning of African Metaphysics; The Nature of African Metaphysics; The Scope of African Metaphysics; Traditional African Metaphysics; The Concept of Being; African Ontology; African Cosmology; God in African Cosmology; The African Concept of the Person
The Person as Relational The Person as Dualistic; The Person as Triadic; The Person and Destiny; Modern African Metaphysics; Science Versus Mythological Metaphysics; African Metaphysics as a Cul de Sac Preventing Innovation; Ubuntu-African Metaphysics in Economics; Destiny in African Metaphysics; Pan-African Metaphysical Epistemology; West African, East African and South African Conceptions of a Person; The West African Conception of a Person; The East and South African Conception of a Person; Conclusion; Bibliography
4: Critical Notes on the Metaphysics of Metallurgy in an African Culture Introduction; Metaphysics of Metallurgy in Yorùbá (African) Belief; Bibliography; 5: An Overview of African Ethics; Introduction; Nature and History of the Profession; Normative Ethics: Good and Bad Character; Normative Ethics: Right and Wrong Action; Applied Ethics; Metaethics; Bibliography; 6: Transnational Ethics, Justice and Anyiam-Osigwe's Philosophy of the Family; Introduction and Issue Statement; Conceptual Prologue
Skewed Global Human Relations and the Debate Between Proponents and Opponents of Transnational Justice The Proponents of Transnational Justice and Their Theses; The Opponents of Transnational Justice and Their Theses; Applying Anyiam-Osigwe's African Philosophy of the Family: An Argument from Transnational Ethics to Transnational Justice; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7: Toward an African Moral Theory (Revised Edition); Clarification of the Project; Ubuntu as a Moral Theory; Developing the Favoured Account; Conclusion: Topics for Future Work; 8: An African Theory of Knowledge
Introduction The African Cultural and Ontological Reality; The Nature of African Epistemology; An African Theory of Knowledge; The African Homo-cultural Theory of Justification of Knowledge; Conclusion; Bibliography; 9: Epistemic Insight from an African Way of Knowing; Introduction; Ignorance and an African Epistemological Framework; An African Way of Knowing; Conclusion; 10: The Imperative of Epistemic Decolonization in Contemporary Africa; Introduction; The African Colonial Experience and Emergence of a New Epistemological Order
The Person as Relational The Person as Dualistic; The Person as Triadic; The Person and Destiny; Modern African Metaphysics; Science Versus Mythological Metaphysics; African Metaphysics as a Cul de Sac Preventing Innovation; Ubuntu-African Metaphysics in Economics; Destiny in African Metaphysics; Pan-African Metaphysical Epistemology; West African, East African and South African Conceptions of a Person; The West African Conception of a Person; The East and South African Conception of a Person; Conclusion; Bibliography
4: Critical Notes on the Metaphysics of Metallurgy in an African Culture Introduction; Metaphysics of Metallurgy in Yorùbá (African) Belief; Bibliography; 5: An Overview of African Ethics; Introduction; Nature and History of the Profession; Normative Ethics: Good and Bad Character; Normative Ethics: Right and Wrong Action; Applied Ethics; Metaethics; Bibliography; 6: Transnational Ethics, Justice and Anyiam-Osigwe's Philosophy of the Family; Introduction and Issue Statement; Conceptual Prologue
Skewed Global Human Relations and the Debate Between Proponents and Opponents of Transnational Justice The Proponents of Transnational Justice and Their Theses; The Opponents of Transnational Justice and Their Theses; Applying Anyiam-Osigwe's African Philosophy of the Family: An Argument from Transnational Ethics to Transnational Justice; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7: Toward an African Moral Theory (Revised Edition); Clarification of the Project; Ubuntu as a Moral Theory; Developing the Favoured Account; Conclusion: Topics for Future Work; 8: An African Theory of Knowledge
Introduction The African Cultural and Ontological Reality; The Nature of African Epistemology; An African Theory of Knowledge; The African Homo-cultural Theory of Justification of Knowledge; Conclusion; Bibliography; 9: Epistemic Insight from an African Way of Knowing; Introduction; Ignorance and an African Epistemological Framework; An African Way of Knowing; Conclusion; 10: The Imperative of Epistemic Decolonization in Contemporary Africa; Introduction; The African Colonial Experience and Emergence of a New Epistemological Order