TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bujo,Bénézet
TI  - Foundations of an African ethic: beyond the universal claims of western morality 
SN  - 0824519051 (alk. paper)
AV  - BJ980 .B8513 2001
U1  - 170/.96 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crossroad Pub.
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Africa
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Ethics, Comparative
N1  - "A Herder and Herder book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index; Machine 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2001000504.html
ER  -