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From “ORAL TRADITION, EUROPEAN MODERNITY AND AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY”

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…

ethnophilosophy is digital media Ethnophilosophy

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…

racism

From “On the Theoretical Foundations of Orality and Literacy”

The idea of an inventive stroke of genius is consequently a complete myth.

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…

Alphabet Written Culture

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?

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