Posted on 01/09/2017 7:51:10 AM PST by C19fan
Students at a leading London college say the majority of philosophers studied there should be from Africa and Asia, and white thinkers should only be examined “from a critical standpoint” or in a “colonial context”.
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One of the implicit assumptions of ethnophilosophy is that a specific culture can have a philosophy that is not applicable and accessible to all peoples and cultures in the world,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy
Judging from that picture, I think those students should go back to their native cultures and make it big there. It just has to be much easier, and why are they in England in order to advance themselves if it is so inferior? It was those white philosophers who built the culture that enticed them to leave their own.
why not craft a full major on Great Philosophers of Africa?
Or even graduate degrees?
“I have a Ph.D. in African Philosophy.”
They should all be flunked out as they have not learned anything.
I have never read such a racist, sophomoric statement from a supposedly learned institution.
It follows the current Liberal philosophy that other less economically developed nations have a superior moral compass.
True, there is much that can be learnd from Asian and African philosophy, but to exclude European philosophers unless from a "critical " or "colonial" context is absurd !
Such bias is emotionally driven, and in no way an intellectual discussion; if you want to study Asian or African philosophy,
go to that country of origin and experience it first hand, and see if that philosophy is actually applied,
or is it just strictly and intellectual and academic exercise.
Yes, that conversation sometimes detours into questions in which I have no interest, and sometimes in which I see no point (often due to my own blind spots). Back in the day, however, my own introduction started with Plato's Republic. "What is justice" is kinda, sorta, an eternally relevant question. The mainstream of western political philosophy flows from there.
I can only presume that these students think Plato is irrelevant because they have an a priori answer and aren't interested in probing questions. My guess is that they have no philosophy higher than a will to power and a gimmedat "commitment" to praxis. Real philosophy has traditionally included reflection on what it means to live a good life, and how to do it. These students would probably never dream of asking themselves that question; they simply resent people who are happier or more successful than they are.
The great achievement of classical philosophy was to establish the principle (not always honored) that truth has an independent claim on our actions. "Truth" is clearly not something in which these kids place any value.
Right. You wouldn’t want to understand the foundations upon which your society and government are built.
Not understanding these foundations is akin to playing a game of monopoly without the rules.
According to new multicultural guidelines, Marx and Spinoza should be safe to teach.
Let's teach our children that we are, in fact, not white, but simply Jewish, by Gil Steinlauf, senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C.
How will this multicultural insanity end??
You know the idea of conscripting these maroons to work repairing and upgrading failing infrastructure might just appeal to the voters of Britain. I say they start with the rails first.
It would serve them right if these people were included,
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Plotinus
Applause!
So he’s merely a bigot?
Guess genetics aren’t as important as prejudice.
Almost all technical philosophy originates from white men. There’s no reason not to notice that. Almost all philosophy outside of Western civilization is theological or esoteric. How can people not notice this?
“You can’t rule out a whole area of intellectual endeavour without having investigated it and clearly they haven’t investigated what they mean by white philosophy. If they think there is a colonial context from which Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason arose, I would like to hear it.”
I love Scruton. These are, after all, young empty minds who actually feel that "dog whistles" are a legitimate form of discourse. Intellectual rigor is, apparently, racist...
Would you consider Saint Augustine to be an African philosopher, since he lived in what is now Libya? Or are we only looking at Marxists?
“Are there ANY African philosophers, even fourth-rate ones?”
There’s St. Augustine of Hippo ( Northern Africa), actually of the first-rank.
Replace those racist philosophers with Mumia abu Jamal, Huey Newton and Danny Gover, world class philosophers all. Throw in Robert Mugabe as a bonus.
Yeah uh huh, no Voltaire and no Blaise Pascal and just throw all the Greeks in the garbage, then call themselves “educated.”
Yeah, really !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was actually Punic and Roman—not black and not “African” in the sense they mean—even though the ancient Punic homeland was the original place called “Africa”!!!!
I don’t care if someone requested and took such a cracked program when they were young, provided they come to their senses—sooner rather than later!!!!
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