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Kenny, Anna

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.2006.tb03038.x

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“…This unique attribute of philosophy is what according to Anthony Kenny makes it "the most exciting and frustrating of all disciplines … exciting because it is the broadest of all disciplines … frustrating because its generality makes it very difficult [probably impossible] for philosophers to reach a complete and coherent understanding" of their discipline. 3 Many philosophers would endorse the view that philosophy is a universal discipline. Many would also accept that philosophy is necessarily a product of a being endowed with reason.…”

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Why the ‘Politics’ against African Philosophy should be Discontinued

Chimakonam

Nweke²

2018

Dialogue

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We argue that philosophy education across the globe is still bedevilled with the ‘politics’ of marginalization of less favoured traditions like African philosophy. Extant works show that the conventional curriculum of philosophy used in educational institutions across the globe is predominantly Western and, as such, very much colonial. We contend that this amounts to a sort of ‘epistemic injustice’ that is detrimental to knowledge production. We argue specifically that this ‘politics’ should be discontinued. We propose the conversational tradition, out of which a philosophy curriculum that is comprehensive and antithetical to the politics of exclusion may be developed.

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confidence: 99%