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The major should be renamed Chinese and Arabic Philosophy if one drops the Europeans.
1 posted on 01/09/2017 7:51:10 AM PST by C19fan
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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?


33 posted on 01/09/2017 9:25:30 AM PST by struggle (The)
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Philosopher and renowned conservative academic Sir Roger Scruton, added: “This suggests ignorance and a determination not to overcome that ignorance.

“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...

34 posted on 01/09/2017 9:37:32 AM PST by Billthedrill
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Replace those racist philosophers with Mumia abu Jamal, Huey Newton and Danny Gover, world class philosophers all. Throw in Robert Mugabe as a bonus.


37 posted on 01/09/2017 10:59:19 AM PST by DPMD
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Yeah uh huh, no Voltaire and no Blaise Pascal and just throw all the Greeks in the garbage, then call themselves “educated.”
Yeah, really !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


38 posted on 01/09/2017 11:00:14 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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