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#personhood
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Ubuntu and personhood: Menkiti’s communitarian view
I'm finally reading the African philosophy my physics degree never mentioned. The Nguni saying behind ubuntu is usually translated as "a person is a person through other persons". John Mbiti's African Religions and Philosophy (1969) put the idea in the form: I…
Started by Emeka Nwosu4 replies144 views -
Watsuji’s betweenness, Akan personhood and Confucian roles: is the relation more basic than the person?
When I retired after forty years designing bridges, I was surprised by how much of “me” went with the job. I did not lose a role; I seemed to lose a person. A friend at the temple handed me Watsuji's Ethics and…
Started by Aiko Tanabe5 replies143 views -
Thirty-four years as a GP: is a patient with advanced dementia still the same person?
I was a GP in Leith for thirty-four years, and the question I heard most often in the last decade was some version of "she isn't the person she was". It was said by husbands, daughters, neighbours, sometimes with grief and sometimes…
Started by Alistair Gow5 replies211 views -
Soul as the form of a living body: does Aristotle help me teach the Igbo idea of chi, or get in the way?
I teach metaphysics at a seminary in Enugu. Every year we read Aristotle's De Anima, where the soul is defined as the first actuality of a natural body that potentially has life. The soul is not a ghost inside the body; it…
Started by Fr. Ikechukwu Anyanwu5 replies190 views