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Emevwo Biakolo

Emevwo Biakolo Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Emevwo Biakolo

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Total quotes: 2

“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

“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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