Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful - Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture

Olubi Sodipo) of Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy.ContentsOrdinary Language and African PhilosophyMoral EpistemologyMe, My Self, and My DestinyThe Good and the BadThe BeautifulRationality, Individuality, Secularity, and the ProverbialAppendix of Yoruba-Language QuotationsGlossary of Yoruba Terms

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translation

1. Ordinary Language and African Philosophy

2. Moral Epistemology

3. Me, My Self, and My Destiny

4. The Good and the Bad

5. The Beautiful

6. Rationality, Individuality, Secularity, and the Proverbial

Appendix of Yoruba-Language Quotations

Glossary of Yoruba Terms

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Barry Hallen has taught philosophy at the University of Ile-Ife in Nigeria. He is a Fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. He is co-author (with J. Olubi Sodipo) of Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy.

Summary

Reveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture. The author identifies the priorities of Yoruba philosophy and culture though everyday expression and shows that there are rational pathways to both truth and beauty.

Product details

• Authors: B. Hallen, Barry Hallen, Hallen Barry
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780253214164
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21416-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 362 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)