Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy
Date
2016
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Unisa Press
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African philosophy as a disciplined methodological inquiry into the question of African - and the African question in philosophy. It articulates instead a strategic ideological notion of "African" in African philosophy; defined by a commitment to the ethics of social justice for the historical injustice of racial dehumanisation of Africans, to transcend the racial essentialism implicit in the above geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy.
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CITATION: Morakinyo, O. 2016. Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy. Phronimon, 7(2):1-17, doi:10.17159/2413-3086/2016/134.
The original publication is available at http://www.phronimon.co.za
The original publication is available at http://www.phronimon.co.za
Keywords
African philosophy, Post-colonialism, Epistemics, Social justice
Citation
Morakinyo, O. 2016. Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy. Phronimon, 7(2):1-17, doi:10.17159/2413-3086/2016/134