On the normative conception of a person

A Companion to African Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 324-331

  Menkiti, Ifeanyi A ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African communities; African traditional societies; Humankind; Individuals; Normative conception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957072159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470997154.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Tempels, Placide (1959) Bantu Philosophy (Paris: Presence Africaine).
4. Wiredu, Kwasi (1977) "African Religions from a Philosophical Point of View," in Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers).
5. Menkiti, A. (1984) "Person and Community in African Traditional Thought," in Richard A. Wright (ed.), African Philosophy: An Introduction, 3rd edn. (New York: University of America Press).
6. Wiredu, Kwasi and Gyekye, Kwame (1992) Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, I (Washington DC: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy).