Language, thought, and interpersonal communication

A cross-cultural conversation on the question of individuality and community

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ID19565388
AuthorsAda Agada (0000-0002-3616-3608), Uti Ojah Egbai (0000-0003-1993-2759)
Year2018
Volume7
Issue2
Pages141-162
Publication date2018-10-26
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFilosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2276-8386 • E-ISSN: 2408-5987
PublisherAfrican Journals Online (AJOL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4314/ft.v7i2.9
OpenAlexW2899297288
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The ongoing debate among African philosophers on the relation of the individual and the community has spawned radical, moderate, and limited communitarian views. In this paper we will insert the question of interpersonal communication into the individual-community conundrum and raise the discourse to the level of cross-cultural engagement. We will highlight the dominant perspectives in Afro-communitarianism with particular emphasis on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye and the Nigerian philosopher Ifeanyi Menkiti. Expanding the discourse into the domain of intercultural/comparative philosophy, this paper will engage Gyekye and Menkiti’s Afro-communitarianism and Jean-Paul Sartre’s radical individualism and the resulting conflictual presentation of interpersonal relation. The paper adopts the conversational method.Keywords: Ifeanyi Menkiti, Kwame Gyekye, Afro-communitarianism, community, individual, Jean-Paul Sartre

Communitarianism · Conversation · Epistemology · Individualism · Interpersonal communication · Kwame · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy

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