How Moderate is Kwame Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism?
Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya 2 (2):65-77 (2010)
Abstract
This article undertakes a critical examination of Kwame Gyekye’s main arguments for moderate communitarianism. Contrary to the general belief among African scholars, it contends that Gyekye’s moderate communitarianism, as he presents it in Tradition and Modernity, is not as moderate as he believes it to be. The article also seeks to show that the gap which Gyekye claims exists between moderate or restricted and unrestricted communitarianism is not as wide as he suggests.Reprint years
2011
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2076-7714
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10.5840/tap2010224
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