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#african-philosophy
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Hountondji was right: a people’s worldview is not yet philosophy
I teach philosophy in a Dakar lycée, and every year a student asks why we study Descartes and not ‘African philosophy’. I owe them a serious answer, and the most serious one I know is Paulin Hountondji's. In African Philosophy: Myth and…
Started by Khady Faye7 replies209 views -
Anton Wilhelm Amo’s impassive mind: a better dualism than Descartes’s?
Every year I teach the mind–body unit in Accra, and every year I start with Anton Wilhelm Amo, the philosopher born near Axim on the Gold Coast around 1703, taken to Germany as a child, educated at Halle and Wittenberg, and the…
Started by Kwame Asante5 replies201 views -
Seen with one’s own eyes: what Yoruba usage teaches about knowing and believing
Yoruba speech draws the line between knowledge and belief somewhere English does not. That line is a serious contribution to the epistemology of testimony.
Started by Titilayo Adeyemi0 replies118 views -
Soul as the form of a living body: does Aristotle help me teach the Igbo idea of chi, or get in the way?
I teach metaphysics at a seminary in Enugu. Every year we read Aristotle's De Anima, where the soul is defined as the first actuality of a natural body that potentially has life. The soul is not a ghost inside the body; it…
Started by Fr. Ikechukwu Anyanwu5 replies190 views