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Title Human well-being in intercultural philosophical perspective: a focus on the Akan philosophy of Wiredu, Gyekye, and Appiah
Full text https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793630780/Well-Being-in-African-Philosophy-Insights-for-a-Global-Ethics-of-Development; https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3665136
Date 2023
Author(s) Müller, L.F.
Contributor(s) Bateye, B.; Masaeli, M.; Roothaan, A.
Abstract The main question that arises when one discusses the concept of well-being in philosophy is whose well-being is at stake. Is it primarily the well-being of the individual or that of the community? Does the pointer of the balance between the community and the individual move to liberalism and atomism or holism and communitarianism?This introductory book chapter focuses on the philosophical contributions of three well-known Ghanaian philosophers to the conceptualisation of human well-being to increase insights into the global ethics of development.These philosophers are the late Kwasi Wiredu (1931-2022), the late Kwame Gyekye (1939-2019), and Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954 -).The chapter will kick off withthese Akan philosophers' (implied) contributions to the so-called 'classical communitarian debate' which focuses on the pressing question of how to reachharmony between the interests of the community and the individual in modern Africa. Then, it will focus on how these philosophers developed an ethics that goes beyond the boundaries of their cultural group by borrowing from the field of Intercultural Philosophy. Finally, it will concentrate on the conceptualisation of human well-being in the context of Intercultural Philosophy as insights into 'global ethics of development' but not before introducing 'ethics of global development'. - Modern and Contemporary Studies
Subject(s) African Philosophy; Intercultural Philosophy; Akan Philosophy; Global Ethics of Development
Language en
Type of publication Part of book or chapter of book; info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart; Text
Format application/pdf
Source African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue -- Well-being in African philosophy
Identifier isbn:9781793630780; eisbn:9781793630797; lucris-id:1267221164
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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