The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
Author:   Barry Hallen
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253338068


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 December 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Barry Hallen
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780253338068


ISBN 10:   0253338069
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 December 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments A Note on Translation 1. Ordinary Language and African Philosophy 2. Moral Epistemology 3. Me, My Self, and My Destiny 4. The Good and the Bad 5. The Beautiful 6. Rationality, Individuality, Secularity, and the Proverbial Appendix of Yoruba-Language Quotations Glossary of Yoruba Terms Bibliography Index

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... an accurate portrayal of the conceptual nature of ordinary discourse about moral and aesthetic values in the Yoruba language ... Hallen renders a great service to African philosophy. --Kwasi Wiredu


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Barry Hallen has taught philosophy at the University of Ile-Ife in Nigeria. He is a Fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. He is co-author (with J. Olubi Sodipo) of Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy.

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