PLS 1502 - ESSAYS - Questions and Answers

Defining African Philosophy using at least one theorists

Critical discussion on the following interrelated questions (i) What is African philosophy? (ii) What value, if any, can it contribute to South African society?

A Critical discussion on the politics behind the question, Is there such a thing as African philosophy?

A Critical discussion on the controversy around the term 'Africa' and if it make sense to continue using this term

Critical discussion on the central argument in Ramose's article, The struggle for reason in Africa and how philosophy, in its conceptions of the 'rational animal', can be used as a tool of subjugation.

Critical discussion on what Ramose means by, “The struggle for reason in Africa” in his essay and what this struggle has to do with African philosophy according to him.

Critical discussion on cross-cultural categories and Emevwo Biakolo's analysis.

Comparison and contrast of the four (4) trends identified by H Odera Oruka (2002)

Critical discussion on Oruka’s four trends of African philosophy and a look at which trends characterizes African philosophy properly .

Critical discussion on Kwame Gyekye’s main arguments on moderate communitarianism

Critical discussion on Bewaji’s ideas on African morality as contained in his essay 'Ethics and Morality in the Yoruba Culture' (2004).

Critical discussion on how John Ayetunde Bewaji shows, in his essay 'Ethics and Morality in the Yoruba Culture' (2004), that the Yoruba culture is an example of an African system of morality