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Ontologized Ethics

New Essays in African Meta-Ethics
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 2013

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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8503-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8504-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
221
Product type
Edited Book

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Introduction No access
  1. Chapter One: Moral Traditions and Moral Revolution: A Conceptual Analysis No access Pages 1 - 14
  2. Chapter Two: The Universality of Morality—Myth or Reality No access Pages 15 - 36
  3. Chapter Three: On the Ontological Foundation of a Social Ethics in African Traditions No access Pages 37 - 54
  4. Chapter Four: Toward an African Relational Environmentalism No access Pages 55 - 72
  5. Chapter Five: The Ethical Import in African Metaphysics: A Critical Discourse in Shona Environmental Ethics No access Pages 73 - 88
  6. Chapter Six: A Reinterpretation of Gender Power Play in the Metaphysics of Adultery and Moral Exclusionism of Married Males in an African Culture No access Pages 89 - 96
  7. Chapter Seven: Beyond Culpability: Approaching Male Impotency Through Legitimated Adultery in Esan Metaphysics No access Pages 97 - 106
  8. Chapter Eight: Finding Common Grounds for a Dialogue Between African and Chinese Ethics No access Pages 107 - 120
  9. Chapter Nine: Critical Reflections on Gyekye’s Humanism: Defending Supernaturalism No access Pages 121 - 132
  10. Chapter Ten: Life’s Origin in Bioethics: Implications of Three Ontological Perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, Western Secularism, and the African Worldview No access Pages 133 - 150
  11. Chapter Eleven: A Critical Analysis of Eldership-Based Ethics in African (Yoruba) Thought No access Pages 151 - 162
  12. Chapter Twelve: Moral Values in African Development No access Pages 163 - 174
  13. Chapter Thirteen: Neo-Ontological Challenge to Negative Atheism: Feuerbach’s God of Secularism No access Pages 175 - 188
  14. Chapter Fourteen: Questioning African Attempts to Ground Ethics on Metaphysics No access Pages 189 - 204
  15. Conclusion No access Pages 205 - 206
  16. Selected Bibliography No access Pages 207 - 214
  17. Notes on Contributors No access Pages 215 - 218
  18. Index No access Pages 219 - 221

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