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The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

The Split Time: Economic Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective

Wariboko, Nimi

Hardcover

Series: Suny Theology and Continental Thought

PhilosophyReligion General General Sociology

ISBN10: 143848979X
ISBN13: 9781438489797
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 1 2022
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life-the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)-come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

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