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Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body (Hardcover)
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Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body (Hardcover)
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Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African
philosopher in the modern period to write in the European
philosophical tradition and study and teach in European
universities. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, while still a
small boy, he was sent from his home in present-day Ghana to
Amsterdam. From there he was sent to Germany as a court attendant
of Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, and was
subsequently baptized in 1708. He matriculated at the University of
Halle in 1727, where he defended a law thesis. He then studied and
taught at the University of Wittenberg, before returning to Halle
to teach, and later also teaching in Jena. He returned to West
Africa permanently in 1747. Though much attention on and study of
Amo has previously focused on his symbolic importance as a
historical figure-the first African philosopher in modern
Europe-Stephen Menn and Justin E. H. Smith argue for a serious
engagement with Amo's work as a philosopher. In an extensive
introduction, they contextualize his biography and writing within
the surrounding intellectual and historical environment, and
discuss and analyze his arguments in conversation with other
philosophers of the time. This volume contains his two Wittenberg
philosophical dissertations, On the Impassivity of the Human Mind
and the Philosophical Disputation containing a Distinct Idea of
those Things that Pertain either to the Mind or to our Living and
Organic Body, both first published in 1734. The editors present the
original Latin texts with side-by-side English translations and
detailed explanatory annotations. In centering Amo's philosophical
thought and making it accessible to more students and scholars,
Menn and Smith establish the originality and significance of Amo's
rigorous contributions to the mind-body debate of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
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