Ontologized Ethics : New Essays in African Meta-Ethics

Imafidon, Elvis (EDT)/ Bewaji, John Ayotunde Isola (EDT)

Lexington Books（2013/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 242 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780739185032
• DDC分類 199.6

Full Description

Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one's orientation of being, or idea of what-is - as an individual or as a group of persons - does, or should, determine one's concept of the good. To what extent is ethics, or our idea of what is permissible or impermissible, grounded on ideas of what fundamentally exists or what it means to be? The aim of this collection of essays, with emphasis on an African philosophical context, will be to establish more firmly and vigorously whether there is an intrinsic link between ontology and morality - that is, whether, and, if so, how the proper norms for human actions can be explained and validated once we make lucid ideas about metaphysical topics such as human nature, community, relationality and spirituality. The essays included in this volume focus rigorously on ethical issues such as communalism, adultery, environmental ethics, and bioethics with the primary aim of showing whether the link between such issues and metaphysical beliefs is trivial or intrinsic.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Moral Tradition and Moral Revolution: A Conceptual Analysis
Chapter 2: University of Morality - myth or reality
Chapter 3: On the Ontological Foundation of a Social Ethic in African Traditions
Chapter 4: Towards an African Relational Environmentalism
Chapter 5: The Ethical Import in African Metaphysics: A Critical Discourse in Shona Environmental Ethics
Chapter 6: A Re-Interpretation of Gender Power Play in the Metaphysics of Adultery and Moral Exclusionism of Married Males in an African Culture
Chapter 7: Beyond Culpability: Approaching Male Impotency through Legitimated Adultery in Esan Metaphysics
Chapter 8: Finding Common Grounds for a Dialogue between African and Chinese Ethics
Chapter 9: Critical Reflection on Gyekye's Humanism: Defending Supernaturalism
Chapter 10: Life's Origin in Bioethics: Implications of Three ontological Perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, Western Secularism and the African Worldview
Chapter 11: Implicit Anachronism of the Concept