{"product_id":"aristotle-in-africa-patrick-giddy-9780906785782","title":"Aristotle in Africa: Ethics and the African Philosophical Tradition","description":"How best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought?\u003cbr\u003eThe philosophy of Aristotle - 'baptised' by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas - has been formative in premodern European thought. Now this frame of thinking, predating the skepticism and relativism that has accompanied the culture of modernity, has been re-expressed in a contemporary vein by Bernard Lonergan and Alasdair MacIntyre.\u003cbr\u003ePatrick Giddy shows how the critical realism of Lonergan (d. 1984) and the communitarian ethic of MacIntyre (d. 2025) - both counter-cultural thinkers - are in tune with the African traditional understanding of the world.\u003cbr\u003eAristotle, he argues, 'belongs' to Africa.\u003cbr\u003eRefereeing Giddy's PhD thesis, Ethics and Human Nature (1994) MacIntyre commented, \"this is the best account I have read of my philosophy\".\u003cbr\u003eIn Aristotle in Africa, Giddy brings the Aristotelian tradition to bear on fundamental topics in African thought and applies these ideas to various areas of ethics as well as to rethinking the university curriculum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick Giddy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0906785782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780906785782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Uj Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Patrick Giddy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48089400443135,"sku":"9780906785782","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bd0ebdd-75e5-4802-94c6-f7ad835d59d0.jpg?v=1769110017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aristotle-in-africa-patrick-giddy-9780906785782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}