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This book provides an excellent orientation to, and a logical development of, the major trends and issues that have dominated discussions in African philosophy since the publication of Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy in 1945. Views of some of the best-known African philosophers, such as Kwasi Wiredu, Paulin Hountondji, H. Odera Oruka, Peter Bodunrin, and D. A. Masolo are discussed in detail. The text takes into account, in the form of quotations or referencing, the views of several other philosophers who have had something to say about African philosophy. This book facilitates an excellent o

Intro -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Earliest Franklin -- Franklin, Socrates, and Modern Rationalism -- 1 The Economic Basis of Liberty -- The Weber Critique -- The Value of Work -- Work, Acquisitiveness, and Nature -- A Republican Political Economy -- The Meaning of Leisure -- 2 The Virtuous Citizen -- The Ethos of the Merchant -- Franklin's Early Thoughts on Virtue and Vice -- Franklin's Retreat from His Early Views -- The Project for Moral Perfection -- Humility, Pride, and Vanity -- The Art of Virtue -- 3 Philanthropy and Civil Associations -- Man as a Political Animal -- Franklin and Tocqueville on Associations -- Franklin's Benevolent Projects -- Democratic Leadership -- 4 Thoughts on Government -- The Albany Plan of Union -- Of Proprietors and Kings -- Statesmanship and Public Relations -- Natural Right and Human Opinion -- Representation and Federalism -- Democratic Diplomacy -- The Constitutional Convention -- Immigration, Race, and Slavery -- 5 The Ultimate Questions -- Enlightenment and the Adequacy of Reason -- The Civic Benefits of Religion -- The Defects of Christianity -- Toleration and Religious Freedom -- The Existence of God -- Eros, Death, and Eternity -- Notes -- Recommended Readings -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

A certain eclecticism is perhaps the most conspicuous feature of American philosophy. The deep structure which generates the whole range of views and positions in American philosophy is quite easy to locate. It is this: there are fifty states in the Union. These can be listed in one column. In a second column, one can list all available philosophic schools: positivists, pragmatists, Platonists, Thomists, Hegelians, Wittgensteinians, existentialists and so forth.There is now a very simple and absolutely reliable law, which runs as follows: To every possible pair of elements, drawn one each from the two columns, there corresponds at least one living, real, concrete professor of philosophy. In other words, there is at least one Texas Hegelian, one Nebraska phenomenologist, one West Virginia Wittgensteinian, one Ohio Kantian and so forth. Of course there may be more than one, but in all circumstances there is at least one.

This volume shows the broad value and interest of a flourishing approach to philosophical inquiry: neopragmatism. This language-first approach rejects metaphysical questions about the existence or nature of problematic entities or properties, instead focusing our attention on our practices of using the relevant words.

Chapter 1: Switching On: The Beginnings of Television. -- Chapter 2: Live Television -- Chapter 3: The Series (1) -- Chapter 4: Flow -- Chapter 5: Interconnecting -- Chapter 6: Instant Replay -- Chapter 8: Switching: Remote Control -- Chapter 9: Second Screens -- Chapter 10: The Series (2) -- Chapter 11: Reality and History -- Chapter 12: Switch-Off-Images -- References -- Index.

Introduction / Yujin Nagasawa and Erik J. Wielenberg -- A new definition of 'omnipotence' in terms of sets / Daniel J. Hill -- Can God choose a world at random? / Klaas J. Kraay -- Why is there anything at all? / T. J. Mawson -- Programs, bugs, DNA and a design argument / Alexander R. Pruss -- The 'why design?' question / Neil A. Manson -- Divine command theory and the semantics of quantified modal logic / David Efird -- Divine desire theory and obligation / Christian B. Miller -- The puzzle of prayers of Thanksgiving and praise / Daniel Howard-Snyder -- A participatory model of the atonement / Tim Bayne and Greg Restall -- Basic human worth : religious and secular perspectives / Christopher J. Eberle -- Imperfection as sufficient for a meaningful life : how much is enough? / Thaddeus Metz