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Emevwo Biakolo Quotes

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“The idea of an inventive stroke of genius is consequently a complete myth.”
— Emevwo Biakolo, On the Theoretical Foundations of Orality and Literacy
“How can it be said that sound is oriented to time merely because it cannot be arrested in time? Is not the contrary equally true, namely, that sound is not oriented to time very reason that time cannot capture it, that it too quickly progress through it?”
— Emevwo Biakolo, On the Theoretical Foundations of Orality and Literacy
Tagged: Time
“The view that philosophy is not a group or collective activity but a practice of individual investigators inquiring into an aspect of truth or reality is a subjective thesis. It is subjective in the ordinary sense that philosophy is not out there, an anonymous intellectual event or process. It is the expression of the thoughts and ratiocination of a specific human subject.”
— Emevwo Biakolo, ORAL TRADITION, EUROPEAN MODERNITY AND AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY
Tagged: ethnophilosophy is digital media, Ethnophilosophy
“It has become a historical commonplace that we owe the alphabet to the Greeks. What is not clear is what we really mean by this. If this implies that the Greeks invented the alphabet, this runs counter to all available knowledge of the history of writing… There is no question at all that the Greeks borrowed their signs from contemporary Semitic syllabic systems of writing, most notably from the Phoenicians with whom they had long established contacts. The very names of the signs, no less than their form, are of Semitic origin.”
— Emevwo Biakolo, On the Theoretical Foundations of Orality and Literacy
Tagged: Alphabet, Written Culture
“For example, a man such as David Hume whose furthest journey from his native Edinburgh was France, or a scholar like Kant who was town-bound, literally speaking, in Konigsberg, and both of whom had no personal knowledge of Africa,
could have known nothing of any black writing for the simple reason that, with the
state of communication at the time, none was available to them. However, precisely
on this excusable ground of ignorance, the least you would expect from a man
described as the ‘greatest British philosopher’, is to suspend judgment or at least temper his conclusion by adverting to the contemporary condition of knowledge.”
— Emevwo Biakolo, ORAL TRADITION, EUROPEAN MODERNITY AND AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY
Tagged: racism
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