Aristotle in Africa
How best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought? The philosophy of Aristotle – ‘baptised’ by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas – has been formative in premodern European thought. Now this frame of thinking, p...
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| description | How best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought? The philosophy of Aristotle – ‘baptised’ by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas – has been formative in premodern European thought. Now this frame of thinking, predating the skepticism and relativism that has accompanied the culture of modernity, has been re-expressed in a contemporary vein by Bernard Lonergan and Alasdair MacIntyre. Patrick Giddy shows how the critical realism of Lonergan (d. 1984) and the communitarian ethic of MacIntyre (d. 2025) – both counter-cultural thinkers – are in tune with the African traditional understanding of the world. Aristotle, he argues, ‘belongs’ to Africa.Refereeing Giddy’s PhD thesis, Ethics and Human Nature (1994) MacIntyre commented, “this is the best account I have read of my philosophy”. In Aristotle in Africa, Giddy brings the Aristotelian tradition to bear on fundamental topics in African thought and applies these ideas to various areas of ethics as well as to rethinking the university curriculum. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1631822025-07-29T18:24:19Z Aristotle in Africa Giddy, Patrick ethics African Philosophical Tradition Aristotle Africa thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory How best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought? The philosophy of Aristotle – ‘baptised’ by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas – has been formative in premodern European thought. Now this frame of thinking, predating the skepticism and relativism that has accompanied the culture of modernity, has been re-expressed in a contemporary vein by Bernard Lonergan and Alasdair MacIntyre. Patrick Giddy shows how the critical realism of Lonergan (d. 1984) and the communitarian ethic of MacIntyre (d. 2025) – both counter-cultural thinkers – are in tune with the African traditional understanding of the world. Aristotle, he argues, ‘belongs’ to Africa.Refereeing Giddy’s PhD thesis, Ethics and Human Nature (1994) MacIntyre commented, “this is the best account I have read of my philosophy”. In Aristotle in Africa, Giddy brings the Aristotelian tradition to bear on fundamental topics in African thought and applies these ideas to various areas of ethics as well as to rethinking the university curriculum. 2025-07-29T18:24:19Z 2025-07-29T18:24:19Z 2025-07-21T10:25:58Z 2025 book ONIX_20250721T121813_9780906785799_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104315 9780906785799 9780906785782 9780906785812 9780906785805 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163182 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104315/1/9780906785799.pdf UJ Press UJ Press 10.36615/9780906785799 10.36615/9780906785799 3162fe88-25cb-4a0f-8540-52215ef36bf0 9780906785799 9780906785782 9780906785812 9780906785805 UJ Press 322 Johannesburg open access |
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