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Ontologized ethics : new essays in African meta-ethics / edited by Elvis Imafidon and John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji.

Contributor(s): Imafidon, Elvis, 1984- [editor.] | Bewaji, John Ayotunde Isola [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xix, 221 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780739185032; 0739185039Subject(s): Metaethics | Ethics -- AfricaDDC classification: 170/.42096 LOC classification: BJ980 | .O58 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Moral traditions and moral revolution: a conceptual analysis / Segun Gbadegesin -- The universality of morality - myth or reality / Sandra A. McCalla -- On the ontological foundation of a social ethics in African traditions / Elvis Imafidon -- Toward an African relational environmentalism / Kevin Gary Behrens -- The ethical import in African metaphysics: a critical discourse in Shona environmental ethics / Munamato Chemhuru -- A reinterpretation of gender power play in the metaphysics of adultery and moral exclusionism of married males in an African culture / Isaac E. Ukpokolo -- Beyond culpability: approaching male impotency through legitimated adultery in Esan metaphysics / Justina O. Ehiakhamen -- Finding common grounds for a dialogue between African and Chinese ethics / Jim I. Unah -- Critical reflections on Gyekye's humanism: defending supernaturalism / Motsamai Molefe -- Life's origin in bioethics: implications of three ontological perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, western secularism, and the African worldview / Elvis Imafidon -- A critical analysis of eldership-based ethics in African (Yoruba) thought / Elizabeth Oluwafunmilayo Kehinde -- Moral values in African development / Chris Tasie Osegenwune -- Neo-ontological challenge to negative atheism: Feuerbach's god of secularism / Jim I. Unah -- Questioning African attempts to ground ethics on metaphysics / Thaddeus Metz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moral traditions and moral revolution: a conceptual analysis / Segun Gbadegesin -- The universality of morality - myth or reality / Sandra A. McCalla -- On the ontological foundation of a social ethics in African traditions / Elvis Imafidon -- Toward an African relational environmentalism / Kevin Gary Behrens -- The ethical import in African metaphysics: a critical discourse in Shona environmental ethics / Munamato Chemhuru -- A reinterpretation of gender power play in the metaphysics of adultery and moral exclusionism of married males in an African culture / Isaac E. Ukpokolo -- Beyond culpability: approaching male impotency through legitimated adultery in Esan metaphysics / Justina O. Ehiakhamen -- Finding common grounds for a dialogue between African and Chinese ethics / Jim I. Unah -- Critical reflections on Gyekye's humanism: defending supernaturalism / Motsamai Molefe -- Life's origin in bioethics: implications of three ontological perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, western secularism, and the African worldview / Elvis Imafidon -- A critical analysis of eldership-based ethics in African (Yoruba) thought / Elizabeth Oluwafunmilayo Kehinde -- Moral values in African development / Chris Tasie Osegenwune -- Neo-ontological challenge to negative atheism: Feuerbach's god of secularism / Jim I. Unah -- Questioning African attempts to ground ethics on metaphysics / Thaddeus Metz.

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