Akan and Euro-American Concepts of the Person

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Akan and Euro-American Concepts of the Person

2004, In Lee M. Brown (ed.), African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives. Oxford University.

Categories: African Philosophy: Aesthetics, African Philosophy: Ethics, African Philosophy: Metaphysics, African Philosophy: Methodology, African Political Philosophy, African-American Philosophy, African/Africana Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophical Education, Philosophical Traditions, Reparations, Slavery

Keywords: Akan, Western tradition, person, theory comparison

Added by: Chris Blake-Turner, Contributed by: Simon Fokt

Abstract: This essay explores the theories of the person within Western and Akan traditions. It identifies six obstacles to theory comparison. It argues that there may be no non-question begging way of comparing theories since these theories themselves play key roles in understanding how each is to be used.

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