Communitarian selves in African Thought

In A. P. J. Roux & P. H. Coetzee (eds.), Beyond the Question of African Philosophy - A selection of papers presented at international colloquia, Unisa, 1994-1996. Pretoria: Unisa Press. pp. Pp. 115-122 (1999)
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In this paper African ideas of the communitarian self, presented in the work of Kwame Gyekye and Kwasi Wiredu among others, are examined with a view to tracing their implications for communitarian ethics.

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Pieter Coetzee
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