Moderate Communitarianism and the Idea of Political Morality in African Democratic Practice

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Opublikowane: 2018-09-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1245
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moderate communitarianism, political morality, personhood, human rights, corruption

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Hasskei M. Majeed
Department of Philosophy & Classics
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1409-1295

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This paper explores how moderate communitarianism could bring about a greater sense of political morality in the practice of democracy in contemporary Africa. Moderate communitarianism is a thesis traceable to Kwame Gyekye, the Akan philosopher. This thesis is a moderation of the infl uence of the community in the Akan, an African social structure. In ensuring good political morality in the Akan, and therefore the African community, Gyekye proposes moral revolution over the enforcement of the law. I perform two main tasks in this article: (i) I reinforce the view that in a democratic framework (such as the framework within which many African states now fi nd themselves), moderate communitarianism offers lessons on political morality, and (ii) I challenge the notion that moral revolution has greater prospects for bringing about political morality than law enforcement.

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Nr 61 (2019)

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Hasskei M. Majeed - Department of Philosophy & Classics

Hasskei M. Majeed
Department of Philosophy & Classics
P.O. Box LG 211
University of Ghana Legon, Ghana

E-mail: mmajeed@ug.edu.gh

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„Moderate Communitarianism and the Idea of Political Morality in African Democratic Practice”. 2018. Diametros 16 (61): 51-71. https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1245.

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