Barry Hallen

Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture

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In Yoruba culture, morality and moral values are intimately linked to aesthetics. The purest expression of beauty, at least for human beings, is to possess good moral character. But how is moral character judged? In this original and intimate look at Yoruba culture, Barry Hallen asks the Yoruba onisegun -- the wisest and most accomplished herbalists or traditional healers, individuals justly reputed to be well versed in Yoruba thought and expression -- what it means to be good and beautiful. Posed as an outsider wanting to gain understanding of how to speak Yoruba correctly, Hallen engages the onisegun and has them explain the subtleties and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hallen, B.

ISBN: 978-0-253-21416-4
EAN: 9780253214164
Produktnummer: 9212427
Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 220 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 362 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 362

Über den Autor

Barry Hallen has taught philosophy at the University of Ile-Ife in Nigeria. He is a Fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. He is co-author (with J. Olubi Sodipo) of Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy.