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    African Environmental Ethics: A Critical Reader.Munamato Chemhuru (ed.) - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in (...)
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    African Communitarianism and Human Rights.Munamato Chemhuru - 2018 - Theoria 65 (157):37-56.
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    The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding.Munamato Chemhuru - 2019 - In African Environmental Ethics: A Critical Reader. Springer Verlag. pp. 29-46.
    The idea of moral status has been examined in various applied ethical discourses such as medical ethics and environmental ethics. However, little has so far been done in terms of appraising these fundamental disciplines from an African philosophical perspective. I venture into this fairly novel area of African environmental ethics as I seek to examine an African understanding of the moral status of nature. As I take a pluralist approach to the idea of moral status of nature in African environmental (...)
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    Using the African Teleological View of Existence to Interpret Environmental Ethics.Munamato Chemhuru - 2016 - Philosophia Africana 18 (1):41-51.
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    Interpreting Ecofeminist Environmentalism in African Communitarian Philosophy and Ubuntu: An Alternative to Anthropocentrism.Munamato Chemhuru - 2018 - Philosophical Papers 48 (2):241-264.
    The question of what an African ecofeminist environmental ethical view ought to look like remains unanswered in much of philosophical writing on African environmental ethics. I consider wha...
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    Gleaning the social contract theory from African communitarian philosophy.Munamato Chemhuru - 2017 - South African Journal of Philosophy 36 (4):505-515.
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    Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy.Jonathan O. Chimakonam & Munamato Chemhuru - 2021 - In Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Edwin Etieyibo & Ike Odimegwu (eds.), Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-26.
    In this chapter, we revisit some of these central and unresolved practical problems facing contemporary African philosophy. We have identified racism, poverty, religion, gender, Afrophobia, sexuality, democracy and environment as some of the topical and contentious issues in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Although these issues have been extensively dealt with in the literature in philosophy in general, they have largely been understood from different Western philosophical persuasions. Even though some African philosophers have considered these issues, there is still a lack of (...)
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    Approaching COVID-19 as an Environmental Ethical Problem: A Perspective from African Relational Animal Ethics.Munamato Chemhuru - 2023 - Public Health Ethics 16 (1):53-63.
    After the discovery of the origins of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to be possibly wet markets in Wuhan, China, the normative questions of what ought to be the ethical relations between human beings and non-human animals have started to attract renewed interest among environmentalists. Although these are not new questions in environmental philosophy, the impact of COVID-19 across the world is challenging human beings to seriously reconsider some of these often-neglected questions. In this article, I examine COVID-19 as (...)
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  9. Elements of Environmental Ethics in Early Greek Philosophy.Munamato Chemhuru - 2017 - Phronimon 18 (1):15-30.
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    Introducing African Environmental Ethics.Munamato Chemhuru - 2019 - In African Environmental Ethics: A Critical Reader. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-5.
    This critical reader addresses African environmental ethics in a unique way by drawing from a variety of authors with diverse perspectives on underexplored and often neglected issues in African philosophy and ethics. Central issues in contemporary African environmental ethics are addressed such as: The moral status of nature, Ubuntu and the Environment, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relationalism, theocentric and teleological environmentalism. The book goes beyond the generalised focus on African metaphysics (...)
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    Pursuing the agenda of Africanising philosophy in Africa: Some possibilities.Munamato Chemhuru - 2016 - South African Journal of Philosophy 35 (4):418-428.
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    The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Africa’s Future: Reflections from African Ethics.Munamato Chemhuru - 2021 - In Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu (ed.), African Values, Ethics, and Technology: Questions, Issues, and Approaches. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 17-33.
    Sub-Saharan Africa is characteristically confronted with poverty, hunger, disease, drought, war, climate change and inequality among other problems. However, the advent of the fourth industrial revolution presents an opportunity for Africa to solve some of these problems through technological innovations offered by information technology, internet of things, networks, robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and superintelligence. These have been absorbed and engrained into human lives and completely changing the way humans live. It is therefore clear that the 4IR is an inescapable (...)
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  13. The Import of African Ontology for Environmental Ethics.Munamato Chemhuru - 2006 - Dissertation, University of Johannesburg
     
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  14. The Ontological Foundation of African Knowledge: A Critical Discourse in African Communitarian Ontology.Munamato Chemhuru - 2023 - In Peter Aloysius Ikhane & Isaac E. Ukpokolo (eds.), African Epistemology: Essays on Being and Knowledge. New York, NY: Routledge.
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    The paradox of global environmental justice: Appealing to the distributive justice framework for the global South.Munamato Chemhuru - 2019 - South African Journal of Philosophy 38 (1):30-39.
    While a relativist view of environmental ethics could be quite difficult to justify, it is also difficult to be so strict about the quest for global environmental justice. At the same time, even though the reality of environmental degradation is plain to see, most African traditional communities, and even their respective states at large, still wallow in poverty such that they remain in need of developing themselves if they are to reach the level of development of the countries in the (...)
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