Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350196537.ch-004
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350196537.0004
{"title":"Introduction: The Emancipative Mission","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350196537.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350196537.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44834,"journal":{"name":"SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83372336","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350196537.ch-005
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2021.2004800
Maxwell Omaboe, Eromosele Eric Usifoh
Karl Popper argues that (i) because dialectics fails to comply with the law of non-contradiction (LNC) and (ii) a thought system that violates the latter is destructive to scientific theorising, dialectics cannot serve as the basis for scientific theorising. In connection with Popper’s accusation, the article seeks to review evidence of dialectical thinking in Marxist literature in accordance with the LNC to clarify the former’s relation to scientific theorising. Lucio Colletti and Lawrence Wilde are notable examples who have made clear commitments to extricate dialectics from the accusation that it violates the LNC. Despite the commendable contributions made, related conclusions do not arise from a concrete analysis of examples from Marxist dialectics about the LNC. We put forward two claims as our position and hence our contribution. First, we side with Popper’s premise (ii): that any thought system that fails to take the LNC seriously cannot validly support scientific theorising. Second, we oppose the truth of Popper’s premise (i): that dialectics undermines the LNC. Consequently, because premise (i) is unfounded, we are unable to grant the soundness of Popper’s contention against dialectics. According to our method of proof, we deploy the tool of concept analysis on relevant examples from Marxist literature. In the end, our overarching purpose is to show that dialectics operationalises the LNC and therefore Marxist dialectics is not disturbed by Popper’s objection.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2021.2001223
S. Sesanti
The year 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the passin g of Wangari Maathai, an environmentalist, women’s rights’ activist, Pan-Africanist, African Renaissance advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Throughout her life – as a girlchild in primary school, a professional in higher education, a married woman and a politician – Maathai was confronted by and, in turn, confronted patriarchal practices in Kenya. An examination of Maathai’s life can easily mislead an observer into thinking that since American education certainly gave her a break from a suffocating patriarchal Kenyan environment, the prevailing patriarchy in Kenya is inherently an African cultural practice. Yet, based on Maathai’s own reflections, ethical and justice- orientated Kikuyu culture was a driving factor in her quest for women’s liberation from patriarchy, and her commitment to environmentalism. Cognisant of the foregoing, I argue that prior to colonialism, traditional Kikuyu education in particular, and traditional African education in general, placed an emphasis on the veneration of women. Therefore, in pursuit of continuing struggles for women’s freedom from patriarchy in Africa, I propose that Afrocentric education, from foundation phase to higher education, should be advanced to reclaim women-affirming and venerating African cultures.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2021.1996143
J. S. Sanni, Diana Ekor Ofana
This article addresses the persistent reality of gender-based violence in South Africa. It does this by approaching the issue of gender from the African philosophical position of ubuntu. The concept of ubuntu is one that is readily used by most African scholars to show that ubuntu is gender-neutral as it focuses on the idea of togetherness. While this article considers the ontological foundation of ubuntu a significant starting point, it seeks to show that more work has to be done in the area of African philosophy with regard to addressing the challenge of gender and its implication for gender- based violence. Hence, we argue that the conception of ubuntu in addressing the issue of gender needs to be reemphasised in ways that challenge the issue of gender and the validation of violence against women. While ubuntu promotes togetherness, community and justice, we argue that it falters in addressing the issues of gender and gender relations. Therefore, we seek to show the misconception of gender and gender roles in ubuntu, especially as it pertains to the dictum: “I am because we are and since we are, therefore, I am”. Within this framework, we argue that violence against women can be read as indicative of the ontological misconception of the women “I” in the “we”. From a gender perspective, we seek to engage the “I” in the “we” and the “we” that makes up the “I”. By doing this, we argue that there is an ontologically unrecognisable, violated and oppressed “I” in the “we” that needs emancipation. We propose a reformulation that entails an active engagement and emancipation of the oppressed “I” from the ontological inferiority that valorises violence against women.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2021.2007445
Nicolas Lema Habash
{"title":"The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche","authors":"Nicolas Lema Habash","doi":"10.1080/02580136.2021.2007445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2021.2007445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44834,"journal":{"name":"SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY","volume":"40 1","pages":"452 - 456"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43472043","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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