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Ontologized Ethics
New Essays in African Meta-Ethics
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2013
Zusammenfassung
Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to be? The aim of this collection of essays, with emphasis on an African philosophical context, will be to establish more firmly and vigorously whether there is an intrinsic link between ontology and morality – that is, whether, and, if so, how the proper norms for human actions can be explained and validated once we make lucid ideas about metaphysical topics such as human nature, community, relationality and spirituality. The essays included in this volume focus rigorously on ethical issues such as communalism, adultery, environmental ethics, and bioethics with the primary aim of showing whether the link between such issues and metaphysical beliefs is trivial or intrinsic.
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Auflage
1/2013
Copyrightjahr
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8503-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8504-9
Verlag
Lexington, Lanham
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
221
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Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff
Chapter One: Moral Traditions and Moral Revolution: A Conceptual Analysis Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 14
Chapter Two: The Universality of Morality—Myth or Reality Kein Zugriff Seiten 15 - 36
Chapter Three: On the Ontological Foundation of a Social Ethics in African Traditions Kein Zugriff Seiten 37 - 54
Chapter Four: Toward an African Relational Environmentalism Kein Zugriff Seiten 55 - 72
Chapter Five: The Ethical Import in African Metaphysics: A Critical Discourse in Shona Environmental Ethics Kein Zugriff Seiten 73 - 88
Chapter Six: A Reinterpretation of Gender Power Play in the Metaphysics of Adultery and Moral Exclusionism of Married Males in an African Culture Kein Zugriff Seiten 89 - 96
Chapter Seven: Beyond Culpability: Approaching Male Impotency Through Legitimated Adultery in Esan Metaphysics Kein Zugriff Seiten 97 - 106
Chapter Eight: Finding Common Grounds for a Dialogue Between African and Chinese Ethics Kein Zugriff Seiten 107 - 120
Chapter Nine: Critical Reflections on Gyekye’s Humanism: Defending Supernaturalism Kein Zugriff Seiten 121 - 132
Chapter Ten: Life’s Origin in Bioethics: Implications of Three Ontological Perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, Western Secularism, and the African Worldview Kein Zugriff Seiten 133 - 150
Chapter Eleven: A Critical Analysis of Eldership-Based Ethics in African (Yoruba) Thought Kein Zugriff Seiten 151 - 162
Chapter Twelve: Moral Values in African Development Kein Zugriff Seiten 163 - 174
Chapter Thirteen: Neo-Ontological Challenge to Negative Atheism: Feuerbach’s God of Secularism Kein Zugriff Seiten 175 - 188
Chapter Fourteen: Questioning African Attempts to Ground Ethics on Metaphysics Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 204
Conclusion Kein Zugriff Seiten 205 - 206
Selected Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 207 - 214
Notes on Contributors Kein Zugriff Seiten 215 - 218
