Tradition
Africana philosophy
Overview
Africana philosophy is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora. The name does not refer to a particular philosophy, philosophical system, method, or tradition. Rather, Africana philosophy is a third-order, metaphilosophical, umbrella-concept used to bring organizing oversight to various efforts of philosophizing. Africana philosophy is a part of and developed within the field of Africana studies.
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Because both are so nearly related, it is an old tradition in the history of Philosophy to deduce Philosophy from Persian, Indian, or similar philosophy, a custom which is still partly retained in all histories of Philosophy. For this reason, too, it is a legend universally believed, that Pythagoras, for instance, received his Philosophy from India and Egypt; the fame of the wisdom of these people, which wisdom is…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Africana philosophy is.
Although, then, Philosophy can be divided only into two main parts, the theoretical and the practical, and although all that we may be able to say of the special principles of Judgement must be counted as belonging in it to the theoretical part, _i.e._ to rational cognition in accordance with natural concepts; yet the Critique of pure Reason, which must decide all this, as regards the possibility of the system…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Critique of Judgement
States what Africana philosophy is.
As far as one can judge, it is for the same reason that philosophers have aimed at a threefold division of science, or rather, were enabled to see that there was a threefold division (for they did not invent, but only discovered it), of which one part is called physical, another logical, the third ethical. The Latin equivalents of these names are now naturalized in the writings of many authors, so that these…
of Hippo Augustine, The City of God, Volume I
States what Africana philosophy is.
Philosophers who discussed Africana philosophy
Related ideas
- African philosophy
- American Philosophical Association
- Western philosophy
- Philosophy of biology
- Postcolonialism
- Metaphilosophy
- Critical race theory
- Political philosophy
- Semantics
- Pre-Socratic philosophy
- Africa
- Social philosophy
- Heuristic
- African diaspora
- Ethics
- Black studies
- Lewis Gordon
- Black existentialism
- Colonisation of Africa
- Philosophia Africana
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