Concept tag
#sage-philosophy
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How would you tell a wise elder from a well-stocked memory? Odera Oruka’s problem, revisited
Odera Oruka went out to rural Kenya to talk with elders and recorded their answers to questions about God, justice, death and the good life. He drew a line between folk sages, who voice the received wisdom of their community well, and…
Started by Wanjiru Njenga3 replies -
What exactly is Odera Oruka’s sage philosophy, and how is it different from ethnophilosophy?
I live in Nairobi, and Henry Odera Oruka taught at the University of Nairobi, so I feel I should understand his work better than I do. I build credit models for a living and came to philosophy through statistics, so I know…
Started by Wanjiru Njenga4 replies -
Hountondji was right: a people’s worldview is not yet philosophy
Every year a student in my lycée class 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 Reality (originally 1976), Hountondji…
Started by Khady Sène7 replies