Creating time gaps -- Chiefs : subjects to freedom -- Imagination : source of self and religion -- Apocalypticism : the struggle for a relevant future -- Temporal orientation and philosophy of history -- The virtue of time -- Kairos and economic development
Summary
Ethics and Time investigates how temporal orientation influence social-ethics. Re-conceptualizing temporal orientation as the production of new temporalities that allow humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles that impede their flourishing, it shows how a social group's orientation to time frames, informs, and drives its politics and religion. It uses an African culture as a practical case study to concretely illustrate the form and dynamics of the interconnections
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index
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English
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