Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA2015/20161728
Michael Onyebuchi Eze, T. Metz
These are major excerpts from an interview that was conducted with Professor Wiredu at Rhodes University during the thirteenth Annual Conference of The International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (April 3, 2007). He speaks on a wide range of issues, such as political and personal identity, racism and tribalism, moral foundations, the golden rule, African communalism, human rights, personhood, consensus, and meta-philosophy, among other critical themes. We are also offered what may be considered Wiredu’s definition of what constitutes “African Philosophy.” For Wiredu, African philosophy ought not necessarily be put in contrast to Western philosophy. African philosophy must be understood within the context of its emergence with its associative socio-cultural and political milieu. Philosophy has no borders, by which he encourages a wide breadth of investigation into different intellectual traditions and an openness to learn from other traditions. He emphasized, however, that there are basic human questions concerning a people that can only be answered by embedded knowledge within their indigenous thought systems. It is reductionist to conceive of African philosophy as merely “ethnophilosophy” because the body of knowledge of what constitutes African philosophy is a critical investigation that negotiates between a series of intellectual traditions evolving from Africa, including those discarded as mere myths and those considered as products of modernity. The authority of African philosophy is the ability to create meaning for a culturally differentiated society, meanings that are not anachronistic but relevant to the sociopolitical and economic condition of the people. African philosophy does indeed have critical resources in dealing with the challenges of democratization, party politics, and nation-building in Africa. With regards to moral judgment, Wiredu’s leitmotif is the golden rule—a procedural standard to judge what action is right or wrong that is an invitation to a subjective empathy. Here Wiredu argues for a subjective reciprocity when it comes to norms and other certain conventions, and he interestingly sides with Menkiti in the famous Gyekye versus Menkiti debate.
在国际非洲哲学与研究学会第13届年会上(2007年4月3日)，罗德大学的Wiredu教授接受了采访。他的演讲涉及广泛的问题，如政治和个人身份、种族主义和部落主义、道德基础、黄金法则、非洲社群主义、人权、人格、共识和元哲学，以及其他关键主题。我们也被提供了可能被认为是Wiredu对什么构成了“非洲哲学”的定义。对怀尔杜来说，非洲哲学不一定要与西方哲学相对立。非洲哲学必须在其出现及其相关的社会文化和政治环境的背景下加以理解。哲学是没有边界的，因此他鼓励对不同的思想传统进行广泛的研究，并以开放的态度向其他传统学习。然而，他强调，关于一个民族的一些基本的人类问题，只能通过他们土著思想体系中根深蒂固的知识来回答。将非洲哲学仅仅视为“民族哲学”是一种简化论者，因为构成非洲哲学的知识体系是一种批判性的研究，它在一系列从非洲演变而来的知识传统之间进行协商，包括那些被视为纯粹神话的传统和那些被认为是现代性产物的传统。非洲哲学的权威在于能够为一个文化差异的社会创造意义，这些意义不是过时的，而是与人民的社会政治和经济状况相关。非洲哲学在应对非洲民主化、政党政治和国家建设的挑战方面确实具有重要的资源。关于道德判断，怀尔杜的主题是黄金法则——一个判断行为是对还是错的程序标准，这是一个主观同理心的邀请。在这里，Wiredu认为，当涉及到规范和其他特定的惯例时，主观互惠是存在的，有趣的是，他在著名的Gyekye vs Menkiti辩论中站在Menkiti一边。
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Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141628
Ferdinand Mutaawe Kasozi
{"title":"Ntu’ological Reflections on God and Warfare in Africa","authors":"Ferdinand Mutaawe Kasozi","doi":"10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"34 1","pages":"119-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71066067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.5840/philafricana20141627
E. Ani
{"title":"A United States of Africa: Insights from antifragility","authors":"E. Ani","doi":"10.5840/philafricana20141627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/philafricana20141627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"16 1","pages":"95-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71065169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.5840/philafricana20141625
L. Harris
{"title":"Telos and Tradition: Making the Future—Bridges to Future Traditions","authors":"L. Harris","doi":"10.5840/philafricana20141625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/philafricana20141625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"16 1","pages":"59-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71065501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.5840/philafricana20141626
Joshua M. Hall
This article is part of a larger project in which I attempt to show that Western formal logic, from its inception in Aristotle onward, has both been partially constituted by, and partially constitutive of, what has become known as racism. In contrast to this trend, the present article concerns the major philosopher whose contribution to logic has been perhaps the most derided and marginalized, and yet whose character and politics are, from a contemporary perspective, drastically superior—John Stuart Mill. My approach to my core concern will be one of narrowing concentric circles. I will begin with Mill’s occasional political writings that bear on the issue of racism, including “The Negro Question.” From there, the core of the article will explore the political dimensions of Mill’s A System of Logic which is my primary
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Pub Date : 2014-04-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141612
Bruce Janz
The life-blood of African philosophy (as with any philosophy) is the generation of new concepts adequate to an intellectual milieu. That milieu includes historical, cultural, politi-cal, and pragmatic elements, among others, as well as the existing concepts that make the milieu philosophically viable. These concepts are both the result and the starting point of questions that can only be asked in a particular manner within African milieus. The access to these questions comes initially from the writing done by those who are of this place, and ultimately from a phenomenological presence in and to the place. This paper will illus-trate this approach to
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Pub Date : 2014-04-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141614
W. Lajul, K. Kalumba
{"title":"Management of the African Knowledge System and the Future of Africa in the World","authors":"W. Lajul, K. Kalumba","doi":"10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"16 1","pages":"43-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71065602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141611
J. Duran
{"title":"Naylor, Mama Day, and the Force of the Spirit","authors":"J. Duran","doi":"10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20141611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71065221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20131524
U. Okeja
{"title":"Postcolonial Discourses and the Equivocation of Expertise","authors":"U. Okeja","doi":"10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20131524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20131524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"15 1","pages":"107-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71065380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20131522
Karen Teel
{"title":"My Whiteness, Myself: A Review of George Yancy’s Look, a White!","authors":"Karen Teel","doi":"10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20131522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PHILAFRICANA20131522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42045,"journal":{"name":"Philosophia Africana","volume":"15 1","pages":"89-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71065312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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