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African culture and values 15523 6535 0 69 22127
The Sense in which Ethno-philosophy can Remain Relevant in 21st Century African Philosophy 2917 338 0 5 3260
Decolonisation of the African mind and intellectual landscape 255 840 0 43 1138
Euripides' Medea and Jason: a study in the Social Power of Love 807 78 0 3 888
African ethics and partiality 652 152 0 0 804
African philosophy in the eyes of the West 548 167 0 0 715
Senghor, globalism and Africanity 465 166 0 1 632
Eurocentric Pitfalls in the Practice of African Philosophy: Reflections on African Universities 481 57 0 8 546
Elements of environmental ethics in Ancient Greek Philosophy 469 74 0 0 543
Covid-19, Philosophy and the Leap Towards the Posthuman 465 34 0 12 511
Decolonisation, Identity, Neo-Colonialism and Power 170 250 0 2 422
Religion: a new struggle for African identity 243 172 0 0 415
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Meaning in Life 367 19 0 8 394
Shifting white identities in South Africa: White Africanness and the struggle for racial justice 170 193 0 13 376
Dying a hundred deaths: Socrates on truth and justice 329 18 0 0 347
The philosophical conception of Mariology and the notion of Theotokos in the teachings of Saint Ambrose 191 86 0 26 303
Rancière and the recuperation of politics 264 29 0 8 301
Ethical methodology in Metz's theory of Ubuntu 234 66 0 0 300
Reflections on Plato and Global Capitalism 288 11 0 0 299
Towards an ethical recontextualisation of Freud's theory of personality 237 29 0 1 267
Notion of "African" as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy 216 45 0 2 263
Bertrand Russell: cognitivism, non-cognitivism and ethical critical thinking 230 24 0 3 257
Deleuze's "crystals of time", human subjectivity and social history 219 32 0 1 252
Educating Africans: perspectives of Ghanaian philosophers 55 163 0 2 220
Laughing Along Racial Lines: Humour in Post-Apartheid South Africa 190 12 0 10 212
The subject: Deleuze-Guattari and/or Lacan (in the time of capitalism)? 169 17 0 0 186
Questions of canon formation in philosophy: The history of philosophy in Africa 72 96 0 1 169
Does Economic Restructuring during Covid-19 in South Africa amount to Disaster Capitalism? 155 12 0 2 169
The “vat-en-sit” unions as a threat to the stability of African marriage in South Africa: African theological pastoral perspective 101 66 0 1 168
The Critical Role of Selected Swiyila (Taboos) in Rural Democratic South Africa: A Theological Perspective 120 29 0 10 159
Struggles for Self-liberation in African Philosophy 114 22 0 7 143
Plato's heritage to Western philosophy, European intellectual tradition and some special sciences 107 29 0 2 138
Postethnophilosophy: discourses of modernity and the future of African philosophy 77 41 0 2 120
Coronavirus Pandemic: Fear of the Unknown, Shaking Psychological Well-being, Economy, Politics and Morality 103 9 0 8 120
To Save Lives: The Ethical Precedent set by South Africa's Leadership during Lockdown 94 15 0 8 117
Is the Philosophy of the Information Systems Discipline Informed by the Arts and Humanities? 98 18 0 0 116
The question of epistemic justice: Polemics, contestations and dialogue 86 23 0 2 111
I kill, therefore I am: War and killing as structures of human spirit 72 21 0 14 107
Voltaire's satirical catechisms: secular confessionalism 65 32 0 1 98
"When everything starts to flow": Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies 41 52 0 1 94
African Philosophy? Questioning the Unquestioned 77 12 0 2 91
Western "Supremacy" and the "Renaissance" Issue: Decolonising as Imitative Reaction 60 16 0 9 85
Heraclitus' usage of όστις in fragments DK B 5 and B 27 57 20 0 3 80
The "Gay" and Psychopathology: Interrogating the Sexual Theories of Homophobes 65 12 0 3 80
The Tenuous Link between Crime and Incarceration: Bosasa's Public-private Partnership 51 22 0 7 80
Restorative Transformation after Lockdown: Freedom and Ubuntu in Civic Education 59 14 0 7 80
Thinking of Biko in the Time of Covid-19 63 9 0 8 80
The sensible and the reasonable: Plato and Rawls 72 7 0 0 79
Using the capability approach to conceptualise African identity(ies) 40 35 0 1 76
Mbembe at the Lekgotla of Foucault's self-styling and African identity 39 36 0 0 75
Truth and the Quest for Definition 33 39 0 3 75
Why the Racial Politic of Colour-branding should be Discontinued 62 10 0 2 74
Globalisation versus Ibuanyidanda ontology: confronting the tension between the "self" and the "other" 58 13 0 2 73
Contextual identity: The case of Anton Amo Afer 46 25 0 1 72
The Subject and the Quest for Truth: Heidegger and Lonergan on Truth 55 9 0 8 72
Hylozoism and hylomorphism: a lasting legacy of Greek philosophy 61 9 0 0 70
Ancient debates on autarkeia and our global impasse 52 10 0 4 66
Placing the Ecological Crisis in a Broader Context: The Orphic and the Promethean 47 11 0 4 62
Massive Deception Masquerading as Information and Communication: A (largely) Derridean Perspective 40 7 0 2 49
Cosmology, chemistry, and Aristotle's elemental powers 32 12 0 2 46
The fall and original sin of set theory 36 7 0 3 46
The "Pandemic" and the Différend 20 20 0 2 42
Hic Sunt Leones: Mythologies and Partisan Constructions of the Good Philosopher in Plato 30 7 0 0 37
Covid-19: In Memory of the "Black Death" 30 6 0 0 36
The phronesis of conservation criminology phraseology: A genealogical and dialectical narrative 20 15 0 0 35
The underlying motives of university student volunteers participating in community service activities in custodial settings in South Africa: a philosophical perspective 28 6 0 1 35
Does Covid-19 Rupture Theodicy? Theo-philosophical Musings 28 3 0 2 33
Parsing "Decolonisation" 19 10 0 2 31
Sophokles' Philoktetes and the ascent to political friendship 19 9 0 2 30
Conservative and liberal, hierarchical and egalitarian: Social-political uses of the concept of "home" in Greco-Roman antiquity and early Christianity 19 7 0 4 30
Emotion as a feature of Aristotelian eudaimonia and African communitarianism 17 9 0 1 27
Peter J. King and the transformation of the philosophical canon: An Africanist appreciation 17 8 0 1 26
Nuridsany and Pérennou's Microcosmos: The People of the Grass (1996) as an Invitation to Become-insect 21 5 0 0 26
African universities' ethical responsibilities to their supporting communities 10 8 0 3 21
Digital aesthetic war machines in societies of control: Perrin and Cluzaud's Oceans (2009) 17 4 0 0 21
Rebel Discourse(s) on Gender as Demonstrated by Contemporary and Historical Chinese Marriage Practices 16 3 0 2 21
The underlying motives of university student volunteers participating in community service activities in custodial settings in South Africa: a philosophical perspective 18 0 0 1 19
Experiencing the Covid-19 Outbreak Socially: On Some Recent Philosophical Contributions 5 7 0 1 13
Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity, by Aribiah David Attoe 12 0 0 0 12
Solidarity at Issue: Pandemics and Religious Belief 6 2 0 1 9
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