Debating African Philosophy Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics and Comparative Philosophy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the contributors -- Foreword -- Notes -- References -- Introduction -- African philosophy -- Decolonising philosophy -- Philosophy and African liberation movements -- Comparative perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Part I Decolonising philosophy -- Chapter 1 Ottobah Cugoano's place in the history of political philosophy: slavery and the philosophical canon -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Decolonizing bioethics via African philosophy: moral neocolonialism as a bioethical problem -- Denying moral neocolonialism is a problem for bioethics -- Direct moral neocolonialism in African bioethical contexts -- Indirect moral neocolonialism in African bioethical contexts -- African philosophical resources for overcoming moral neocolonialism -- Objections and replies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 A philosophy without memory cannot abolish slavery: on epistemic justice in South Africa -- Introduction -- Approach -- "History" is his-story, it is yet to be our story -- The ethical necessity for a philosophy of memory for Africa -- Re-member this -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Race, justice, identity -- Chapter 4 Neville Alexander and the non-racialism of the Unity Movement -- NEUM non-racialism: the double lock -- Between racialism and blindness to racialisation: Alexander on 'colour-caste' -- An unkept promise: Neville Alexander's post-Apartheid social criticism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Biko on non-white and black: improving social reality -- Biko's definitions of non-white and black -- Non-white in the context of Fanon -- Fanon's paradoxes -- Biko: from deprivation of recognition to deprivation of agency -- Non-white and the inclusiveness of Biko's categories -- Fundamentality and negativity in categories -- Biko's category black -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Black autarchy/white domination: fractured language and racial politics during Apartheid and beyond via Biko and Lyotard -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Impartiality, partiality and privilege: the view from South Africa -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Notes -- References -- Part III Moral debates -- Chapter 8 Making sense of survivor's guilt: why it is justified by an African ethic -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Survivor's guilt: unreasonable by Western moral theory -- 3 An African theory of moral virtue -- 4 Survivor's guilt as prizing communion -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 African philosophy and nonhuman nature -- Introduction -- Anthropocentrism and its ethical standpoint -- African (Bantu) metaphysical worldview: Placide Tempels' force thesis -- African metaphysical worldview: beings and community -- Worries for my views and some responses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 On cultural universals and particulars -- Introduction -- Cultural universals, particulars and fundamentals -- Wiredu and Oruka on cultural universals: a reconstruction -- Appraisal of Wiredu's response to Oruka -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11 The Metz method and 'African ethics' -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Meta-philosophy -- Chapter 12 The edges of (African) philosophy -- 1 On questions and philosophy -- 2 Creating concepts -- 3 How to not be stupid -- 4 The edges of thought: Ramose and Ubuntu -- 5 Conclusion -- Sources -- Chapter 13 Is philosophy bound by language? Some case studies from African philosophy -- Introduction -- How might philosophy be bound by language? -- Hallen and Sodipo on knowledge -- Wiredu on truth -- Verran on numbers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 African philosophy in the context of a university -- 1 Identity, uniqueness and difference -- 2 Universality and particularity -- 3 African philosophy and the idea of a university -- 4 African philosophy and ideology -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Part V Comparative perspectives -- Chapter 15 Relational normative thought in Ubuntu and Neo-republicanism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Relational thought based on Ubuntu -- 3 Relational thought in Neo-republicanism -- 4 Four dimensions of relational thought -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 African philosophy, disability, and the social conception of the self -- Identity 'out there' -- Identity 'from the inside' -- Notes -- References -- Index