PLS1502 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2026 - Due August 2026

PLS1502 Assignment 2 Semester 2 2026 - Due August 2026 Question 1: Write an essay where you discuss whether Gyekye’s moderate communitarian framework would protect freedom of speech in the South African context. To support your argument, refer to one real example of the exercise of freedom of speech you have seen on social media (e.g., a tweet, Facebook post, or X thread) that, in your view, Menkiti’s radical communitarianism would be unlikely to support and protect. Defend your answer Guiding Questions to explore:  Explain both Gyekye’s and Menkiti’s claim for communitarian  Discuss what freedom of speech is and how each claim of communitarian might support of reject an example of freedom of speech  Example how Gyekye’s moderate communitarian framework would protect freedom of speech in the South African context and why. Use the example of freedom of speech to show how and why Menkiti’s radical communitarianism framework might not work and defend your answer.  Instructions: Base your answer primarily on Gyekye’s “Person and community in African thought” (pp. 297–312). Question 2: Write an essay where you critically evaluate the claim made by H. Odera Oruka, who argues that philosophic sagacity offers a way to recognise critical philosophical thinking within African traditions without falling into the limitations of ethnophilosophy. In your evaluation,