Ontologized ethics : new essays in African meta-ethics

Acknowledgments  Introduction  Chapter 1: Moral Tradition and Moral Revolution: A Conceptual Analysis  Chapter 2: University of Morality - myth or reality  Chapter 3: On the Ontological Foundation of a Social Ethic in African Traditions  Chapter 4: Towards an African Relational Environmentalism  Chapter 5: The Ethical Import in African Metaphysics: A Critical Discourse in Shona Environmental Ethics  Chapter 6: A Re-Interpretation of Gender Power Play in the Metaphysics of Adultery and Moral Exclusionism of Married Males in an African Culture  Chapter 7: Beyond Culpability: Approaching Male Impotency through Legitimated Adultery in Esan Metaphysics  Chapter 8: Finding Common Grounds for a Dialogue between African and Chinese Ethics  Chapter 9: Critical Reflection on Gyekye\'s Humanism: Defending Supernaturalism  Chapter 10: Life\'s Origin in Bioethics: Implications of Three ontological Perspectives: Judeo-Christianity, Western Secularism and the African Worldview  Chapter 11: Implicit Anachronism of the Concept of Eldership in African (Yoruba) Thought  Chapter 12: The Nature of Moral Values in African Philosophy: A Foundation for African Development  Chapter 13: Neo-Ontological Challenge to Negative Atheism: Feuerbach\'s God of Secularism   Chapter 14: Questioning African Attempts to Ground Ethics on Metaphysics  Conclusion  Selected Bibliography  Index  Notes on Contributors