AFRICAN ETHICS AND PARTIALITY
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https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/1988Keywords:
African ethics, partiality, impartiality, personhoodAbstract
This article explores the question whether African ethics is best captured in terms of partiality or impartiality. I take one influential instance of a defence of impartiality in the African tradition, sympathetic impartiality, by Kwasi Wiredu, and I use it as a foil to represent African ethics. I argue that impartiality, as represented by Wiredu, fails to cohere with moral intuitions characteristic of African moral thought, namely: the high prize usually accorded to the family, veneration of ancestors and the notion of personhood. I merely touch on the first two intuitions; I base my argument largely on the normative concept of personhood that is considered to be definitive of African moral thought.Metrics
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2016-12-01
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Molefe, Motsamai. 2016. “AFRICAN ETHICS AND PARTIALITY”. Phronimon 17 (1):104-22. https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/1988.
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