Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the ...

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Groundwork for the Practice of the Good LifePolitics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy\nAuthor(s): Omedi Ochieng\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367877279, 978-0367877279\nSynopsis\nWhat makes for good societies and good lives in a global world? In this landmark work of political and ethical philosophy, Omedi Ochieng offers a radical reassessment of a millennia-old question. He does so by offering a stringent critique of both North Atlantic and African philosophical traditions, which he argues unfold visions of the good life that are characterized by idealism, moralism, and parochialism. But rather than simply opposing these flawed visions of the good life with his own set of alternative prescriptions, Ochieng argues that it is critically important to step back and understand the stakes of the question. Those stakes, he suggests, are to be found only through a social ontolo.