The Death Penalty from an African Perspective Views from Zimbabwean and Nigerian Philosophers
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Series in Philosophy
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 81.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
17.04.2019
Herausgeber
Fainos Mangena + weitereVerlag
Vernon PressSeitenzahl
252
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.4 cm
Gewicht
371 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-62273-479-5
This book is about an African philosophical examination of the death penalty debate. In a 21st century world where the notion of human right is primed, this book considers the question of the death penalty in two sub-Saharan African countries namely, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, notorious for their poor human right records. This edited collection comprises of 11 essays from Zimbabwean and Nigerian philosophers. As opinions continue to divide over the retention or abolition of the death penalty, these African philosophers attempt to localise this debate by raising the following questions: What is the meaning of life in the African place? Is it proper to take the human life under any guise at all? Who has the right to take the human life? Can the death penalty be justified on the bases of African cultures? Why should it be abolished? Why should it be retained? Indeed, this book is the first of its kind to engage the tumultuous issue of capital punishment in the postcolonial Africa and from the African philosophical point of view.
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