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LEADER: 02709cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2001000504
003 DLC
005 20050607105748.0
008 010129s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001000504
020 $a0824519051 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hger
043 $af------
050 00 $aBJ980$b.B8513 2001
082 00 $a170/.96$221
100 1 $aBujo, Bénézet.
240 10 $aWider den Universalanspruch westlicher Moral.$lEnglish
245 10 $aFoundations of an African ethic :$bbeyond the universal claims of western morality /$cBénézet Bujo ; translated by Brian McNeil.
260 $aNew York :$bCrossroad Pub.,$cc2001.
300 $axvii, 214 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"A Herder and Herder book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: PART 1 -- Fundamental Questions of African Ethics -- 1. STARTING POINT AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- The Problem of the cognatus sum -- Questioning Natural-Law Thinking -- Virtue and Morality -- Fairy Tales, Proverbs, Riddles, and Initiation -- The Narrative Dimension of Virtue -- Various Understandings of Virtue -- 2. ETHICS AND ANAMNESIS -- The Significance of Praxis and Poiesis for Ethical Conduct -- Marriage and Sexuality -- The Anamnetic Dimension of Choreography -- and Art in General -- The Palaver between Communitarianism -- and Discourse Ethics -- The Palaver as Process for Discovering and -- Justifying Norms -- The Essence of the Palaver -- PART 2 -- Identity and the Understanding of Freedom -- 1. WESTERN CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY -- Individual Responsibility in "Autonomous" Moral Theology -- The Practice ofAutonomy in Ethics -- The Encyclical Veritatis Splendor -- Individual Responsibility in African Ethics -- The Community and the Individual -- World Ethos and the Ethos of Salvation -- 2. SIN AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE -- Sin and Conscience in Classic Catholic Moral Theology -- Catholic Teaching on the Conscience -- Situation Ethics -- Sin and Conscience in the African Context -- The Internalization of Ethical Norms -- The Community and the Individual Conscience -- 3. CRITICAL OBSERVATION: THE CHALLENGE -- OF INCULTURATION -- Community and Structural Sin -- Limits to the African Tradition -- Mistaken Developments -- The Magisterium and the Authority of the Palaver -- The Magisterium in Ethical Questions -- The Palaver as a Complementary Practice -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Looking Back -- Looking Ahead.
650 00 $aEthics$zAfrica.
650 00 $aChristian ethics.
650 00 $aEthics, Comparative.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001000504.html