Personhood in a Communitarian Context
| Autor: | Barry Hallen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Thought and Practice; Vol 7, No 2 (2015); 1-10 |
| ISSN: | 2076-7714 0251-043X |
| DOI: | 10.4314/tp.v7i2.2 |
| Popis: | Theories regarding the nature and achievement of personhood in a communitarian context appear to differ in significant respects in the writings of several contemporary African philosophers. Ifeanyi Menkiti seems to regard ethnic differences as sufficient to warrant a national accommodation of multiculturalism with respect to moralities and attendant beliefs. Kwasi Wiredu argues that there is a substantive universal moral principle that undercuts such apparent and relatively superficial diversity. Communitarianism also seems to provide a better framework for explaining how a human being becomes a person than classical liberal theory as enunciated by someone like John Rawls. KeywordsCommunitarianism, liberalism, multiculturalism, personhood, Masolo, Menkiti, Rawls, Wiredu |
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