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To: TigerClaws

Well, there are a few great Asian philosophers, such as Confucius, who could certainly be included if they are not already. But Plato and Aristotle and their like cannot reasonably be dropped. And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.


18 posted on 01/09/2017 1:00:50 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.

I don't even know of any mediocre ones..................

25 posted on 01/09/2017 1:02:23 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: Cicero

And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.


Augustine of Course. And if I remember correctly, the Neo-Platonists were largely centred in Egypt.


28 posted on 01/09/2017 1:04:10 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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“And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.”

Moses, but that goes back a ways.


29 posted on 01/09/2017 1:04:35 PM PST by rightwingcrazy ("We will not tolerate those who are intolerant of the intolerant.")
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To: Cicero

And I don’t know of any great African philosophers

Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
Samuel Jackson

The Best they have


30 posted on 01/09/2017 1:04:59 PM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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I knew one. Zulu Shakespeare,he tended bar on 128th street in Harlem!


41 posted on 01/09/2017 1:23:48 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Clement of Alexandria...


45 posted on 01/09/2017 1:31:35 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. Yogi Berra)
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And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid. <<

Amos and Andy come to mind..just off the top of my head...I'm sure there's more..../s

54 posted on 01/09/2017 1:52:31 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Cicero
St. Augustine of Hippo.

; )

56 posted on 01/09/2017 2:09:58 PM PST by cornelis
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