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标题：Personhood in a Communitarian Context
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作者：B Hallen
期刊名称：Thought and Practice
印刷版ISSN：2076-7714
出版年度：2015
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：1-10
语种：English
出版社：African Journals Online
摘要：Theories regarding the nature and achievement of personhood in a communitarian context appear to differ in significant respects in the writings of several contemporary African philosophers. Ifeanyi Menkiti seems to regard ethnic differences as sufficient to warrant a national accommodation of multiculturalism with respect to moralities and attendant beliefs. Kwasi Wiredu argues that there is a substantive universal moral principle that undercuts such apparent and relatively superficial diversity. Communitarianism also seems to provide a better framework for explaining how a human being becomes a person than classical liberal theory as enunciated by someone like John Rawls. Keywords Communitarianism, liberalism, multiculturalism, personhood, Masolo, Menkiti, Rawls, Wiredu