Bateye B., Masaeli M., Müller L., Roothaan A. (Eds.) Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development

Lexington Book, 2023. — 289 p. — African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue. — ISBN 978-1793630797.Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and its insights into global ethics of development. Drawing from longstanding debates on communitarianism in the context of personhood in African philosophy, as well as those in intercultural philosophy, the diverse contributors present manifold ways to philosophize about well-being from African contexts. Hailing from sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, they address questions of human well-being related to the major global challenges of our time, such as climate change and socio-economic, gender, and racial inequality in society, education, and organization. This collection, building on the work of African independence philosophers as well as oral traditions from a critical development studies perspective, offers fresh views on well-being, development, and morality, thus contributing to global ethics from an African vantage point.Introduction
Conceptions of Well-Being in African(a) Intercultural Philosophy
Human Well-Being in Intercultural Philosophical Perspective: A Focus on the Akan Philosophy of Wiredu, Gyekye and Appiah / Louise Müller
This Thing Called Communitarianism, or Why We Should Not Be Afraid of the Community / Nimrod Kahn
Being-in-Community as the Basis of Well-Being in African Philosophy / Pius Mosima
Personhood, Well-Being and Ethical Maturity in African Philosophy / Alloy S. Ihuah
Well-Being In African Contexts
Social Ethics and Human Well-Being in Igbo Society / J. Chidozie Chukwuokolo
Religion, Education and the Well-Being of Citizens in Nigeria / Olutoyin Mejiuni and Bolaji Olukemi Bateye
A Non-Individualistic Notion of the Common Good / Abdoulaye Ba
The Pursuant of Well-Being in Contemporary Africa / Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Ovett Nwosimiri and Stephen Nkansah Morgan
Contributions to a Global Ethics of Development
Ujamaa: Society as Family / Martin F. Asiegbu and Simeon Dimonye
African Pre-colonial Accomplishments in Political, Social and Economic Well-Being / Andrew Akampurira
A Philosophy of Race in the Melting Pot of Globalisation and Its Implications for Africa / Wilfred Lajul
Gilles Paquet’s Hermeneutics of Belongingness: On the Collaborative Ethics of Global Development / Stanley Uche Anozie
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