A Defense of Kwame Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism

Philosophical Papers 49 (1):137-158 (2020)
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An avowed communitarian, Gyekye follows the lead of such African communitarians as Menkiti who believe that the community is ontologically prior to the individual. However, unlike Menkiti and other...

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10.1080/05568641.2019.1684840

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Kibujjo Kalumba
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African ethics.Kwame Gyekye - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2010.
Radicals versus Moderates: A Critique of Gyekye's Moderate Communitarianism.B. Matolino - 2009 - South African Journal of Philosophy 28 (2):160-170.

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