TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gyekye,Kwame
TI  - Tradition and modernity: philosophical reflections on the African experience 
SN  - 0195112253
AV  - DT352.4 .G94 1997
U1  - 960.3/01 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Ch. 1; Philosophy and Human Affairs; 1; The Nature and Purpose of Philosophy; 2; Philosophy: Not a System of Beliefs?; 3; Philosophy as a Conceptual Response to Human Situations; 4; Philosophy and the African Experience --; Ch. 2; Person and Community: In Defense of Moderate Communitarianism; 1; Communitarianism in African Moral and Political Theory: Moderate or Radical?; 2; Community, Social Relationships, and the Common Good; 3; Communal Structure and Personhood; 4; Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communal Structure; 5; Communitarianism and Supererogationism --; Ch. 3; Ethnicity, Identity, and Nationhood; 1; Nation as an Ethnocultural Community; 2; Nation as a Multinational State; 3; Beyond N[subscript 2]: Towards Nationhood; 4; National Culture and Identity --; Ch. 4; Traditional Political Ideas, Values, and Practices: Their Status in the Modern Setting; 1; Observations on the Democratic Character of the Traditional African Political System; 2; Chiefship and Political Authority; 3; Democratic Elements in the Traditional Akan Political Practice; 4; Creating Modern Democratic Institutions; 5; The Need for a Comprehensive Conception of Democracy --; Ch. 5; The Socialist Interlude; 1; The Alleged Traditional Matrix of African Socialism; 2; Private Enterprise in the Traditional African System; 3; Socialism or Humanism?; 4; The Pursuit of Marxian Socialism in Postcolonial Africa; 5; On the Concept of Ideology --; Ch. 6; Quandaries in the Legitimation of Political Power; 1; The Meaning of the Concept; 2; Losing Legitimacy --; Ch. 7; Political Corruption: A Moral Pollution; 1; Political Corruption: What Is It?; 2; Political Corruption in the Politics of Traditional Africa; 3; The Moral Circumstances of Political Corruption --; Ch. 8; Tradition and Modernity; 1; On the Notion of Tradition; 2; Attitudes toward a Cultural Past; 3; Normative Consideration of Our African Cultural Products; 4; The Legacy of the Past in the Present; 5; On the Notion of Modernity --; Ch. 9; Epilogue: Which Modernity? Whose Tradition?
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