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The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
Barry Hallen
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Paperback. Reveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture. The author identifies the priorities of Yoruba philosophy and culture though everyday expression and shows that there are rational pathways to both truth and beauty. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1H; 2HCWVY; CFA; GTB; HPQ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
Barry Hallen
Reveals everyday language as the key to understanding morals and ethics in Yoruba culture.
"This contrasts with any suggestion that in Yoruba or, more generally, African society, moral thinking manifests nothing much more than a supine acquiescence in long established communal values. . . ....
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253214164
SKU
V9780253214164
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About Barry Hallen
Barry Hallen has taught philosophy at the University of Ile-Ife in Nigeria. He is a Fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. He is co-author (with J. Olubi Sodipo) of Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy.
Reviews for The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture
"... an accurate portrayal of the conceptual nature of ordinary discourse about moral and aesthetic values in the Yoruba language ... Hallen renders a great service to African philosophy."
Kwasi Wiredu
Kwasi Wiredu