The Motivation for “Toward an African Moral Theory”

Abstract

Here I introduce the symposium issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy
that is devoted to critically analysing my article “Toward an African
Moral Theory.” In that article, I use the techniques of analytic moral philosophy
to articulate and defend a moral theory that both is grounded on the values
of peoples living in sub-Saharan Africa and differs from what is influential
in contemporary Western ethics. Here, I not only present a précis of the
article, but also provide a sketch of why I have undertaken the sort of project
begun there, what I hope it will help to achieve, and how the contributors to
the symposium principally question it.

South African Journal of Philosophy Vol. 26 (4) 2007: pp. 331-335