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Person and Community in African Thought
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Person and Community in African Thought examines Gyekye’s account of community and personhood. Its claims should not be generalized into a unanimous African view.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 74
Who is speaking when a philosophy is called communal?
Gyekye and Wiredu offer their own argued interpretations of Akan personhood. Hountondji criticizes the assumption that a whole people speaks with one voice, and Oruka investigates individual reasoning in oral dialogue.