| Autor: |
Barry Hallen |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
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Method, Substance, and the Future of African Philosophy ISBN: 9783319702254 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-70226-1_3 |
| Popis: |
As an academic discipline, African philosophy has had to overcome obstacles that were not of its own making. Indigenous African cultures had been said to provide insignificant evidence of abstract thought arising from systematic critical thinking. Generations of African philosophers were therefore compelled to challenge this generalization as racially biased and empirically false. The Ghanaian philosopher, Kwasi Wiredu, was in the forefront of this movement. He has since produced a body of work that demonstrates that the analytic approach to philosophy is perfectly compatible with African cultural and linguistic content. Within academic philosophy as an international enterprise there are still issues to be resolved between Western and non-Western traditions of thought. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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