NAME: MLUNGISI SIBIYA
STUDENT NUMBER:19331851
MODULE CODE: PLS1502
SECTION A
QUESTION 1
African are people from Africa. They had bad experiences or self-understanding they
didn't have a lot to know why their leadership was chaotic. They had differences in
their cultures. Kanu made a point stating that ‘every culture contributes from its
house experience to the universal theme by philosophy and this makes philosophy
relevant to reality of life. based on each culture concept of life namely, between
object and may sound repulsive this culture contribution to the philosophizing is what
particularize philosophy as western European Indian Chinese or African (KANU, 2012)
It is discussed that Africanity of African philosophy. Mkhwanazi was interrogated by
the African Philosophy, and he stated 3 elements of which are rationally universal and
particularly all these elements are enterprise which are evident in the life of African
life more over he further stated it is up to the Africa that effectively make success of
their own effort to remedy the situation. He pointed the African continent that has its
own challenges and need to be address and that a particular to African, this supports
the conclusion that African PHILOSOPHY EXIST and further clarifies that debate in the
Africanity of African philosophy.
And the general definition of PHOLOSOPHY is that its derivers from Greek word
namely “philo” which mean love and “sophia” meaning wisdom, together these word
means Love of wisdom. In Kanu (2012), Makumba suggests that there what are
regarded as regarded as element which constitutes Philosophy this include ability to
reason, Philosophy as universal enterprise and its Particularly. These accepted
characteristics or components of philosophy. Kanu further writes that philosophy
‘target and point to the human being as a rational entity’ (2012). In Kanu(2012),
Perrinder argues that African people are devoid of reasoning to deny their humanities
the issue of one race does not play a major role in defining the individual , for example
its taken for granted that every black person is an African it is for the reason the late
singer peter tosh sings no matter where you come from as long you black man or
woman you are an African .in other words black person or people are regarded as
African where they may be even with qualification such African American , this being
the case term African constitution by one race it is racial its bears with its some
political element for example the current political situation in the United states of
America where there are campaign #Black life matters follows the death of a black
/African American man Goege Floyd
SECTION B
QUESTION 3
In view of the different approaches to the problem of person hood and community in
Africa thought, Gyekye find it necessary to clarify some commonalities and
differences among the different approaches within the communitarianism ,thus
opening further debate in this area . Although Gyekye focuses his analysis on
Menkiti’s ideas he pauses to consider the idea of those he calls radical
communication, such as Nkruna ,Senghor and Nyerere. Gyekye does not consider the
community as the alpha and omega in determining personhood. with ought playing
down the importance of the community, Gyekye brings into debate the problem of
right his primary concern is the space that is given to the human person for the
exercise of his or her individual right within the communitarianism. He examines the
question of the right in relation to duties
initialy we will check on Menkiti’s idea. The picture Menkiti paint about the
relationship between the community and the individual, Forms the basis of Gyekye’s
criticism of Menkiki . AS far Gyekye is concern, “Menkiti maintains that the African
view asserts the ontological primacy, and hence the ontological independence, of the
community”
According to Menkiti, The African view support the following notion; It is community
that define the person as a person” 2 ‘Personhood is acquired” 3 person is sometime
which has to be achieved ,and is not given by simply because one is born of human” 4
personhood is something at which individual fail’
Gyekye critique Menkiti way of examining personhood in African thought –in which the
primary focuses is on the community as opposed to the individual as unnecessary
overemphasized. In Gyekye’s opinion, emphasizes is done at the expenses of many
other equally important human features.
One of Gyekye’s main concerns is the risk of failing the bigger picture if everything is
narrowed down to the community. According to Gyekye , Mankiti’s approach makes
the community and all-powerful structure in such a way that anybody who functions
outside it may run risk of being punished by failure to achieve personhood.
And another one of the issues Gyekye does not agree with Menkiti is that personhood
is something at which an individual could fail. For Gyekye it is not personhood but
social status, AT which individual could fail. One of the main goals of Gyekye ‘s essays
is to dispel the myth that in an African setting, Human person have no live of their
own. Despite being “a communitarian being by nature the human person is,also by
nature, Other things as well, For GyeKYE , THE HUMAN PERSON HAS RATIONALITY
WHICH GIVE
