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    Beauty in African thought: critical perspectives on the Western idea of development (edited book)
    with Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, and Louise F. Müller
    Lexington Books. 2023.
    'Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development' won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2023 as mentioned on the Rowman and Littlefield webpage. The book investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted agains…Read more
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    Gegeven: ethische essays over het leven als gave (edited book)
    with Theodoor Adriaan Boer
    Boekencentrum. 2003.
  •  59
    Introduction in Wellbeing in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development
    In Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise F. Müller & Angela C. M. Roothaan (eds.), Wellbeing in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development, Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 1-11. 2023.
    Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development, edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and its insights into global ethics of development. Drawing from longstanding debates on communitarianism in the context of personhood in African philosophy, as well as those in intercultural philosophy, the diverse contributors present manifold ways to philosophize ab…Read more
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    Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style educat…Read more
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    In his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James remarked that, as a tradition, religion is always rooted in an original religious experience of an inspirational figure.1 Using the words of the French theologian Sabatier, James describes this as “an intercourse, a conscious and voluntary relation, entered into by a soul in distress with the mysterious power upon which it feels itself to depend, and upon which its fate is contingent.”2 James pioneered the description of r…Read more
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    Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Naturecontributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective of critical and postcolonial thinkers who have focused on systematic racism, power relations and the intersection of cultural identity and political struggle. Angela Roothaan discusses how initiatives to tackle environmental problems cross-nationally are often challenged by economic growth processes in postcolonial nations and further complicated by fig…Read more
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    Beauty in African Thought: A Critique of the Western Idea of Development investigates how the concept of beauty in African philosophy and related qualitative social sciences may contribute to a richer intercultural exchange on the idea of development. While working within frameworks created in post-colonial and arguably neo-colonial times, African thinkers have reacted against the mainstream view that restricts the meaning and scope of good development to economic growth and western-style educat…Read more
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    In 2012, elephants from two separate herds walked about twelve hours to hold what seemed to be a vigil for their deceased rescuer, South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Their story was met with reactions varying from intrigue to disbelief, as standing ideas on non-human animals forbid us to think they might outdo humans in their capacity to sense the death of a close one, even across species-boundaries. In my chapter this story will be the starting point to critically address Western d…Read more
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    Wellbeing in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development (edited book)
    with Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, and Louise F. Müller
    Rowman and Littlefield. 2023.
    Well-Being in African Philosophy: Insights for a Global Ethics of Development, edited by Bolaji Bateye, Mahmoud Masaeli, Louise Müller, and Angela Roothaan, explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and its insights into global ethics of development. Drawing from longstanding debates on communitarianism in the context of personhood in African philosophy, as well as those in intercultural philosophy, the diverse contributors present manifold ways to philosophize ab…Read more
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    Michael Tomasello. A Natural History of Human Thinking
    Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 4 (1): 129. 2017.
  • Van den hoven: "Petrus Van balen en Spinoza over de verbetering Van het verstand" (review)
    Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 5 (n/a): 413. 1989.
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    On the basis of an analysis of relevant passages from the political-philosophical works of Spinoza, an interpretation is given of his concept of ‘public peace’. This investigation is undertaken in the context of the recent discussion between liberalists and communitarians on the question whether the basis of moral society has to be found in the autonomy of the individual or in the community which provides us with an identity. The outcome of the analysis is that Spinoza’s concept of peace refers …Read more
  • De joodse religie in de moderne wijsbegeerte (review)
    Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 16 294-295. 2008.
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    On the basis of an analysis of relevant passages from the political-philosophical works of Spinoza, an interpretation is given of his concept of ‘public peace’. This investigation is undertaken in the context of the recent discussion between liberalists and communitarians on the question whether the basis of moral society has to be found in the autonomy of the individual or in the community which provides us with an identity. The outcome of the analysis is that Spinoza’s concept of peace refers …Read more
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    Pontiaan Van Hattem was a Dutch seventeenth century thinker who has, so far, been very largely ignored by historians of philosophy. This can be explained by the fact that, even during his lifetime, the Calvinist community in which he lived and worked as a clergyman stigmatized him as a heretic on account of his philosophical attitude. His work has, therefore, been a matter of concern to theologians rather than philosophers. What is more, his pupil Roggeveen, who published his works posthumously,…Read more
  • Vanhattem, pontiaan epistemological criticism of Spinoza
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (3): 525-535. 1988.
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    Anna Maria van Schurman's verhouding tot wetenschap in haar vroege en haar late werk
    with Caroline van Eck
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 82 194. 1990.
  • Drie perspectieven op religie in het denken van Spinoza (review)
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 4. 2003.
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    Could a Religious Ethics Ever Be Universal?
    Bijdragen 65 (2): 209-225. 2004.
    In the correspondence between Baruch Spinoza and his former friends Nicolas Stensen and Albert Burgh we find an interesting discussion on the sense of committing oneself to a particular institutionalized religion. Burgh and Stensen, both being converts to Roman Catholicism, tried to convince the former Jew to make the same move as they did. Spinoza answers Burgh that he will not do so, and refers to his ‘universal religion’, which he developed in his published work, the Theological-Political Tre…Read more
  • Terugkeer van de natuur. De betekenis van natuurervaring voor een nieuwe ethiek
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (3): 639-641. 2006.