كواسي غييكي
يتشكل الفرد بالجماعة لكنه لا تبتلعه – ويستطيع الفكر الأفريقي أن يجمع القيم الجماعية وحقوق الفرد معًا.
التموضع
فيلسوف غاني: أعاد بناء المنظومة المفاهيمية للأكان ودافع عن «جماعاتية معتدلة» تترك مجالًا لحقوق الفرد.
الأفكار الرئيسة
- المنظومة المفاهيمية للأكان
- الجماعاتية المعتدلة
- مفهوم الشخص
التأثير
تأثّر بـ 1
أرسطو
تأثّر بـ
Gyekye, trained in Greek and Arabic philosophy, translated Ibn al-Tayyib’s commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge, the gateway to Aristotle’s logic (Arabic Logic, 1979). K. Gyekye (trans.), Arabic Logic: Ibn al-Tayyib’s Commentary on Porphyry’s Eisagoge (1979); An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (1987)
التوثيق: مسودة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
أرسطو › 384–322 ق.م
النقد
ينتقد 4
جون مبيتي
انتقد
Gyekye read Mbiti’s ‘I am, because we are’ as radical communitarianism without room for individual rights, and proposed a moderate version (‘Person and Community in African Thought’, 1992). K. Gyekye, “Person and Community in African Thought”, in K. Wiredu & K. Gyekye (eds.), Person and Community (1992); Tradition and Modernity (1997), ch. 2; J. S. Mbiti, African Religions and Philosophy (1969)
التوثيق: مسودة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
جون مبيتي › 1931–2019
كواسي ويريدو تأثّر بـ
تأثّر بـ
Gyekye shared Wiredu’s programme of critically analysing Akan concepts and co-edited with him Person and Community (1992), while disputing his reading of the okra. K. Wiredu and K. Gyekye (eds.), Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I (1992); K. Gyekye, An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (1987)
التوثيق: مسودة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
انتقد
Against Wiredu’s quasi-physical reading of the Akan okra, Gyekye held the Akan person to be dualistic, with an immaterial soul (An Essay on African Philosophical Thought, 1987). K. Gyekye, An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (1987), ch. 6; K. Wiredu, “The Akan Concept of Mind”, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies 3 (1983)
التوثيق: مسودة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
كواسي ويريدو › 1931–2022
إيفاني منكيتي
انتقد
Gyekye objected that Menkiti’s ‘radical’ communitarianism, with personhood acquired in community, leaves no room for individual rights or criticism (‘Person and Community in African Thought’, 1992). K. Gyekye, “Person and Community in African Thought” (1992); Tradition and Modernity (1997), ch. 2; I. Menkiti, “Person and Community in African Traditional Thought” (1984)
التوثيق: مسودة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
إيفاني منكيتي › 1940–2019
بولين هونتونجي
انتقد
Gyekye objected to Hountondji that traditional African thought, though unwritten and anonymous, goes back to individual thinkers and can be philosophy (An Essay on African Philosophical Thought, 1987). K. Gyekye, An Essay on African Philosophical Thought: The Akan Conceptual Scheme (1987); P. Hountondji, Sur la « philosophie africaine » (1976)
التوثيق: مسودة بالذكاء الاصطناعي
بولين هونتونجي › 1942–2024
الأعمال
تصورات الأكان عن الله والشخص والمصير والجماعة، معاد بناؤها فلسفةً.
الموقف
Gyekye wanted to show that the thought of the Akan of Ghana forms a coherent philosophical system, not just a collection of customs. In his main work he reconstructed Akan views of God, the person, destiny, evil and community, and argued that individual sages, not just the anonymous collective, contributed to it. Against radical communitarian readings of African thought, including some of his colleagues’, he defended a “moderate communitarianism”: the person is deeply shaped by the community, yet retains rights, a will of their own and the capacity to question tradition. Later he applied these ideas to the challenges of modernizing African societies.
الحياة والسياق
Gyekye was born in the Gold Coast in 1939 and studied at the University of Ghana and then at Harvard, where he earned his doctorate with a study of Greek and Arabic logic. He taught for decades at the University of Ghana and also as a visiting professor in the United States, including at Temple University in Philadelphia. He died in 2019.
أعمال رئيسة أخرى
- Arabic Logic (1979)
- Tradition and Modernity (1997)
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