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Kwame Gyekye Quotes

1939–2019

Kwame Gyekye (10 November 1939 – 13 April 2019) was a Ghanaian philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Ghana. He was one of the leading figures in modern African philosophy and is best known for his work on Akan philosophy, personhood, ethics, and his theory of moderate communitarianism.

Random Kwame Gyekye quote

5 quotes

"Philosophy is a conceptual response to human situations."

"The individual is not a palm tree that he should be complete unto himself."

"The future of Africa lies neither in an uncritical acceptance of tradition nor in an uncritical adoption of foreign values."

"The community is an association of individuals, all of whom are ends in themselves and not merely means to the ends of others."

"Modernity should not be equated with Westernization."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kwame Gyekye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.