Foundations of an African ethic : beyond the universal claims of western morality / Benezet Bujo ; translated by Brian McNeil.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Crossroad Pub., c2001.Description: xvii, 214 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0824519051 (alk. paper)
- Wider den Universalanspruch westlicher Moral. English
- 170.96 21 BUJ
- BJ980 .B8513 2001
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"A Herder and Herder book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
Machine generated contents note: PART 1 -- Fundamental Questions of African Ethics -- 1. STARTING POINT AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- The Problem of the cognatus sum -- Questioning Natural-Law Thinking -- Virtue and Morality -- Fairy Tales, Proverbs, Riddles, and Initiation -- The Narrative Dimension of Virtue -- Various Understandings of Virtue -- 2. ETHICS AND ANAMNESIS -- The Significance of Praxis and Poiesis for Ethical Conduct -- Marriage and Sexuality -- The Anamnetic Dimension of Choreography -- and Art in General -- The Palaver between Communitarianism -- and Discourse Ethics -- The Palaver as Process for Discovering and -- Justifying Norms -- The Essence of the Palaver -- PART 2 -- Identity and the Understanding of Freedom -- 1. WESTERN CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY -- Individual Responsibility in "Autonomous" Moral Theology -- The Practice ofAutonomy in Ethics -- The Encyclical Veritatis Splendor -- Individual Responsibility in African Ethics -- The Community and the Individual -- World Ethos and the Ethos of Salvation -- 2. SIN AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE -- Sin and Conscience in Classic Catholic Moral Theology -- Catholic Teaching on the Conscience -- Situation Ethics -- Sin and Conscience in the African Context -- The Internalization of Ethical Norms -- The Community and the Individual Conscience -- 3. CRITICAL OBSERVATION: THE CHALLENGE -- OF INCULTURATION -- Community and Structural Sin -- Limits to the African Tradition -- Mistaken Developments -- The Magisterium and the Authority of the Palaver -- The Magisterium in Ethical Questions -- The Palaver as a Complementary Practice -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Looking Back -- Looking Ahead.
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