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Philosophy of liberation
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Teaching non-European philosophy as live positions, not museum pieces
I teach the terminale philosophy class at a lycée in Dakar, where Descartes and Senghor sit on the same exam paper. One of the clearest changes in philosophy since 1990 is that traditions outside Europe have begun entering curricula and journals as…
Started by Khady Faye6 replies224 views -
If a life has a place rather than a meaning, what happens when the place is unjust?
I've been reading discussions of how different traditions answer "does life have meaning?", and one idea keeps coming up: most traditions say a life has a place rather than a meaning. Your meaning comes from your role in a family, a lineage,…
Started by Keisha Monroe6 replies205 views -
Freire’s banking model is unfair to the lecture, and to the teachers who give good ones
I have taught Latin and Greek for twenty years, and every few years a pedagogy course reminds me that I am a banker. In Pedagogy of the Oppressed Freire describes the "banking" concept of education: the teacher deposits, the students receive, file…
Started by Giulia Ferrante6 replies222 views -
Salazar Bondy asked if there is a philosophy of our America. Over fifty years on, what’s the answer?
In 1968, the Peruvian philosopher Augusto Salazar Bondy published a short book with an uncomfortable title: ¿Existe una filosofía de nuestra América? His answer was, roughly, not yet. Latin American philosophy, he argued, had been imitative: each generation importing the latest European…
Started by Mateo Quispe6 replies276 views -
Critical theory diagnoses domination brilliantly but cannot say why it is wrong
I lecture in economics in Valencia, and Marx, Rawls, Hobbes and Ibn Khaldun share a shelf in my office. I'd like to press an old objection to critical theory and see whether it still bites. Critical theory asks what a set of…
Started by Javier Morales5 replies158 views -
Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who developed adult literacy programmes in north-eastern Brazil and, after the 1964 coup, worked in exile…