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KWASI WIREDU is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and former head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ghana. He is author of Philosophy and an African Culture.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Universal and the Particular
Part I. General Considerations
2. A Philosophical Perspective on the Concept of Human Communication
3. Are There Cultural Universals?
4. The Biological Foundation of Universal Norms
Part II. Religion and Morality
5. Universalism and Particularism in Religion from an African Perspective
6. Custom and Morality: A Comparative Analysis of Some African and Western Conceptions of Morals
Part III. Conceptual Contrasts
7. Formulating Modern Thought in African Languages: Some Theoretical Considerations
8. The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language
9. African Philosophical Tradition: A Case Study of the Akan
10. The Need for Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy
11. Post-Colonial African Philosophy
Part IV. Democracy and Human Rights
12. An Akan Perspective on Human Rights
13. Philosophy and the Political Problem of Human Rights
14. Democracy and Consensus: A Plea for a Non-Party Polity
15. Postscript: Reflections on Some Reactions
Notes
Index
About the author
Kwasi Wiredu
Summary
An eminent African philosopher asserts the compatibility of universal and particular values in defining cultural identities.
