Edwin Etieyibo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 483137 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edwin Etieyibo |
| PRENOMES | Edwin |
| SOBRENOME | Etieyibo |
| ASSINATURA | ETIEYIBO E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1801-4593 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A dialogue between Confucian hehe and African ubuntu
This article is based on an interview conducted by China Africa Talk between Shuchen Xiang, an expert in Chinese philosophy, and Edwin Etieyibo, an expert in African philosophy. The dialogue that follows focuses on the Chinese concept of hehe or “harmony” and the African concept of ubuntu. The two philosophers discuss the characteristics of each concept and how they structure their respective world views. Also discussed are the striking similarit…
Metz’s Heterochthonous Relational Moral Theory and Business Ethics
One of the practical ethical areas that Thaddeus Metz applied his Relational Moral Theory (RMT) to is business ethics. In this important area of applied ethics, Metz examines the question of how business owners, and related agents ought to deal with others, especially workers and consumers. He argues that the relational account of obligations recommends a stakeholder model of business and provides a plausible alternative (if not better to) famili…
Race, Intellectual Racism, and the Opened Door
There are forms of discriminations that are not defensible, and unjustified discriminations manifest in different forms. One such manifestation is racism, which involves the use of morally arbitrary natural and moral constituents (characteristics, abilities, qualities) to demarcate racial or ethnic groups and consequently designate some groups as superior and others as inferior. In this article, I discuss one form of racism (intellectual racism),…
Igbo values and women
This article discusses some of the core values among the Igbos. This is done partly as a way of showing the way in which these values play out both in gender relations in and highlighting the way women are viewed. In this sense, our attempt here should be understood as an investigation. The values that we examine are those of truthfulness or truth, respect or respectfulness and industry or industriousness or hard work. The aim is to help make the…
Gender relations and social justice in Africa
A large and important part of social relations is gender relations between men and women. Over time, the manifestation of such relations has often been one of violence, particularly violence against women. Different approaches have been deployed to deal with the experience of gender-based violence (GBV). One popular approach is the human rights framework that suggest that GBV can be addressed by granting certain rights to women. We argue that whi…
Indigenous culture and the decolonisation of feminist thought in Africa
The existence of current feminist thought in Africa is tainted by colonialism. Colonial and postcolonial anthropological thought and Eurocentric scholarship have misrepresented Africa as a society where social and gender roles were largely lopsided. Hence, current feminist thought (which are largely Western) on oppression of women, subjugation and suppression were imposed on the historicity of Africans. In this article, we argue that the misrepre…
Feminism and women in African philosophy
In this preamble, we highlight some of the more recent work on gender and sexuality in African philosophy. We do this as a way of introducing the special issue on “African Philosophy, Women, and Feminism”. In particular, we outline and highlight the trajectory and intellectual landscape of several discussions on women and feminism in African philosophy in the issue, and in this way, build on some previous work on gender, women, sexuality and Afri…
How to Think with the Global South
This innovative collection of twenty-six essays aims to contribute to the project of, as the title of the introduction suggests, reimagining epistemology and the philosophy of science from a global perspective. Rather than attempting to construct a volume that augments the coverage provided on traditional topics, such as explanation, laws, and reductionism, or that delivers an integrated global epistemology, the book explores how to think with th…
Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective
CanThere Be Reconciliation between African and NonAfrican Philosophy?'
African metaphysics and disabilities
In the last decade or so, some substantive work on disability in Africa has been done. Nonetheless, and this is so for different reasons, the nature and substance of disability in intellectual discourses in Africa still largely remain undefined and uncategorised. In this article, I aim to contribute to the scholarship on disability by examining if and whether one can talk meaningfully of metaphysical disability and how this notion of disability i…
Introduction
More recent discussions in African philosophy have focused on substantive issues than the largely meta-philosophical discussions that African philosophers engaged in between the 1960s and 1990s. This makes this special issue very important. Collectively the articles in the issue, among others, explore contemporary topics in African philosophy and studies in the area of the political philosophy of need, oral tradition in philosophy, majoritarian d…
Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms
With Africa as its point of reference and departure, this volume examines why and how the two concepts – radicalisms and conservatisms – should not be taken as mere binaries around which to organize knowledge. It demonstrates that these concepts have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence, the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The essays show what happens when one juxtapose…
African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective
People with disabilities in the margins in Nigeria
With the emergence of numerous human rights groups as well as legal instruments in the international arena, the rights and protection of people with disabilities are increasingly being guaranteed. However, in Nigeria, people with disabilities still live at the margins due to some cultural practices that continue to discriminate against them and undermine their rights and general wellbeing. The paper is an empirical study combined with some histor…
Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person
Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhood—especially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” —has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with various aspects of Menkiti’s account of person and community. The contributors examine this account in relation to themes such as individu…
Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria
This paper employs the conceptual-analytical method to analyse literature and news reports on disabilities, and international legal documents and instruments on human rights and the rights of persons with disabilities to which Nigeria is a signatory. This study is conducted in the context of exclusionary and discriminatory practices against persons with disabilities in Nigeria. The practices and rights that are examined are in the areas of educat…
Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria
This paper employs the conceptual-analytical method to analyse literature and news reports on disabilities, and international legal documents and instruments on human rights and the rights of persons with disabilities to which Nigeria is a signatory. This study is conducted in the context of exclusionary and discriminatory practices against persons with disabilities in Nigeria. The practices and rights that are examined are in the areas of educat…
Identities, exclusionism and politics in Africa
In Africa, the youth play a major role both as activists and participants in cultural life and politics. Framed around the concepts of conservatisms and radicalisms, this special issue references various African contexts to explore the intersections of youthhood, identities, cultural practices, politics, struggle narratives, education, and marginalisation, and the role young people play in the political process. To this end, articles in this spec…
The 'two democracies' and Africa's burden
There is a common view that democracy is the best form of government. Today, most societies have accepted this view as a truism. In Africa, and consistent with this view, there has been numerous moves towards democratising not just society as whole but also various institutions. Although this push is commendable, the form of democracy that is instantiated in many African nations or societies does not seem to reflect the ‘genuine’ form of democrac…
Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum
Are we finished with the ethnophilosophy debate? A multi-perspective conversation
In line with the tradition of the Conversational School of Philosophy, this essay provides a rare and unique space of discourse for the authors to converse about the place of the ‘ethno’ in African philosophy. This conversation is a revisit, a renewal of the key positions that have coloured the ethnophilosophy debate by the conversers who themselves are notable contributors to arguments for and against the importance of ethnophilosophy in the unf…
Moral force and the “it-it” in Menkiti’s normative conception of personhood
What is the status and nature of the “it” and the ontological progression from an “it” to an “it” in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s normative conception of a person? In this article, I attempt to preliminarily give some nuance content to the “it” of childhood and the “it” of the nameless dead. My motivation is straightforwardly simple: to defend Menkiti’s claim that both “its” have some depersonalised moral standing or existence. However, in doing so, I argue…
Anthropocentrism, African Metaphysical Worldview, and Animal Practices
In his recently published book Animals and African Ethics, Kai Horsthemke (2015) makes two important and related claims. The first is that most African metaphysical, religious, and ethical positions and perspectives on animals are anthropocentric. Second, he states that if there are one or more principles of duties regarding other animals derivable from these positions and perspectives, they are at best “indirect duties.” In this article, I criti…
Why ought the philosophy curriculum in universities in Africa be Africanised
The position that I defend and argue for in this paper is that we ought to or are obligated to Africanise the philosophy curriculum in universities in Africa. This obligation is grounded on the overarching consideration not to wrong Africans by committing testimonial and hermeneutical injustices against them, and where committing these forms of epistemic injustice prevents us from enhancing the autonomy of Africans and maximising or promoting uti…
Identities, exclusionism and politics in Africa
In Africa, the youth play a major role both as activists and participants in cultural life and politics. Framed around the concepts of conservatisms and radicalisms, this special issue references various African contexts to explore the intersections of youthhood, identities, cultural practices, politics, struggle narratives, education, and marginalisation, and the role young people play in the political process. To this end, articles in this spec…
How to Think with the Global South
This innovative collection of twenty-six essays aims to contribute to the project of, as the title of the introduction suggests, reimagining epistemology and the philosophy of science from a global perspective. Rather than attempting to construct a volume that augments the coverage provided on traditional topics, such as explanation, laws, and reductionism, or that delivers an integrated global epistemology, the book explores how to think with th…
The 'two democracies' and Africa's burden
There is a common view that democracy is the best form of government. Today, most societies have accepted this view as a truism. In Africa, and consistent with this view, there has been numerous moves towards democratising not just society as whole but also various institutions. Although this push is commendable, the form of democracy that is instantiated in many African nations or societies does not seem to reflect the ‘genuine’ form of democrac…
Moral education, ubuntu and ubuntu-inspired communities
While it is generally believed that moral education is important in the development of children, there is disagreement over a range of issues concerning the teaching of values and morals in schools. In the forefront of this debate are issues concerning whether morality or values and morals can be taught in schools, ought to be taught, and how they should be taught. In this paper I want to focus on the last of the issues within the background of u…
Guest editor’s introduction
It is an honour and indeed a privilege to be the guest editor of this special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy. I consider this introduction to the issue to be motivated by one principal reason: the need to contextualise the articles that appear in this issue. I believe that such contextualisation will, among other things, highlight the difficult task or problematic that we, whether as academics, students, researchers, policymaker…
The Founders
Bargaining and agreement in Gauthier's moral contractarianism
Bargaining and distribution of benefits accruing from social cooperation are central topics in contractarian accounts of morality or distributive justice in general and David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement (MbA) in particular. In this paper, I raise some problems for MbA both with regards to bargaining over the benefits of social cooperation and the distribution of such benefits. The worries I raise piggyback on a couple of Jan Narveson's earlier…
The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
(2014). The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa. African Historical Review: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 98-101
Understanding Ethics, 3rd edition
Understanding Ethics is a very short book that deals fundamentally with normative ethics. The simplicity and clarity with which the author, Torbjorn Tannsjo, discusses many of the moral theories makes the book very accessible for anyone interested in an elementary or introductory book on normative ethics. Although the book can be said to deal with normative ethics, the author's discussion of how each of the moral theories attempts to tackle the v…
African Philosophy and Proverbs
African Philosophy
Religion, culture, and discrimination against persons with disabilities in Nigeria
Given the unfairness and wrongness of these practices they ought to be deplored. Moreover, the Nigerian government needs to push through legislation that targets cultural and religious practices which are discriminatory against persons with disabilities as well as undertake effective and appropriate measures aimed at protecting and advancing the interests of persons with disabilities
Why ought the philosophy curriculum in universities in Africa be Africanised
The position that I defend and argue for in this paper is that we ought to or are obligated to Africanise the philosophy curriculum in universities in Africa. This obligation is grounded on the overarching consideration not to wrong Africans by committing testimonial and hermeneutical injustices against them, and where committing these forms of epistemic injustice prevents us from enhancing the autonomy of Africans and maximising or promoting uti…
Guest editor’s introduction
It is an honour and indeed a privilege to be the guest editor of this special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy. I consider this introduction to the issue to be motivated by one principal reason: the need to contextualise the articles that appear in this issue. I believe that such contextualisation will, among other things, highlight the difficult task or problematic that we, whether as academics, students, researchers, policymaker…
Anthropocentrism, African Metaphysical Worldview, and Animal Practices
In his recently published book Animals and African Ethics, Kai Horsthemke (2015) makes two important and related claims. The first is that most African metaphysical, religious, and ethical positions and perspectives on animals are anthropocentric. Second, he states that if there are one or more principles of duties regarding other animals derivable from these positions and perspectives, they are at best “indirect duties.” In this article, I criti…
Moral education, ubuntu and ubuntu-inspired communities
While it is generally believed that moral education is important in the development of children, there is disagreement over a range of issues concerning the teaching of values and morals in schools. In the forefront of this debate are issues concerning whether morality or values and morals can be taught in schools, ought to be taught, and how they should be taught. In this paper I want to focus on the last of the issues within the background of u…
Moral force and the “it-it” in Menkiti’s normative conception of personhood
What is the status and nature of the “it” and the ontological progression from an “it” to an “it” in Ifeanyi Menkiti’s normative conception of a person? In this article, I attempt to preliminarily give some nuance content to the “it” of childhood and the “it” of the nameless dead. My motivation is straightforwardly simple: to defend Menkiti’s claim that both “its” have some depersonalised moral standing or existence. However, in doing so, I argue…
Decolonisation, Africanisation and the Philosophy Curriculum
Are we finished with the ethnophilosophy debate? A multi-perspective conversation
In line with the tradition of the Conversational School of Philosophy, this essay provides a rare and unique space of discourse for the authors to converse about the place of the ‘ethno’ in African philosophy. This conversation is a revisit, a renewal of the key positions that have coloured the ethnophilosophy debate by the conversers who themselves are notable contributors to arguments for and against the importance of ethnophilosophy in the unf…
Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person
Ifeanyi Menkiti’s articulation of an African conception of personhood—especially in “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” —has become very influential in African philosophy. Menkiti on Community and Becoming a Person contributes to the debate in African philosophy on personhood by engaging with various aspects of Menkiti’s account of person and community. The contributors examine this account in relation to themes such as individu…
Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria
This paper employs the conceptual-analytical method to analyse literature and news reports on disabilities, and international legal documents and instruments on human rights and the rights of persons with disabilities to which Nigeria is a signatory. This study is conducted in the context of exclusionary and discriminatory practices against persons with disabilities in Nigeria. The practices and rights that are examined are in the areas of educat…
Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria
This paper employs the conceptual-analytical method to analyse literature and news reports on disabilities, and international legal documents and instruments on human rights and the rights of persons with disabilities to which Nigeria is a signatory. This study is conducted in the context of exclusionary and discriminatory practices against persons with disabilities in Nigeria. The practices and rights that are examined are in the areas of educat…
Identities, exclusionism and politics in Africa
In Africa, the youth play a major role both as activists and participants in cultural life and politics. Framed around the concepts of conservatisms and radicalisms, this special issue references various African contexts to explore the intersections of youthhood, identities, cultural practices, politics, struggle narratives, education, and marginalisation, and the role young people play in the political process. To this end, articles in this spec…
The 'two democracies' and Africa's burden
There is a common view that democracy is the best form of government. Today, most societies have accepted this view as a truism. In Africa, and consistent with this view, there has been numerous moves towards democratising not just society as whole but also various institutions. Although this push is commendable, the form of democracy that is instantiated in many African nations or societies does not seem to reflect the ‘genuine’ form of democrac…
Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms
With Africa as its point of reference and departure, this volume examines why and how the two concepts – radicalisms and conservatisms – should not be taken as mere binaries around which to organize knowledge. It demonstrates that these concepts have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence, the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The essays show what happens when one juxtapose…
African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective
People with disabilities in the margins in Nigeria
With the emergence of numerous human rights groups as well as legal instruments in the international arena, the rights and protection of people with disabilities are increasingly being guaranteed. However, in Nigeria, people with disabilities still live at the margins due to some cultural practices that continue to discriminate against them and undermine their rights and general wellbeing. The paper is an empirical study combined with some histor…
Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective
CanThere Be Reconciliation between African and NonAfrican Philosophy?'
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