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African Philosophy! Ethnophilosophy vs Professional Philosophy

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Posted: Friday October 13th, 2006 09:38

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Ethnophilosophy involves the recording of the beliefs found in African cultures. Such an approach treats African philosophy as consisting in a set of shared beliefs, a shared world-view -- an item of communal property rather than an activity for the individual.
Professional philosophy is the view that philosophy is a particular way of thinking, reflecting, and reasoning, that such a way is relatively new to (most of) Africa, and that African philosophy must grow in terms of the philosophical work carried out by Africans and applied to (perhaps not exclusively) African concerns. This sort of view would be the intuitive answer of most Western philosophers (whether of continental or analytic persuasion) to the question 'what is African philosophy?'
Which is the way forward? Should we push aside traditional philosophies to encourage more "professional" individualistic thought? Can they not exist side my side?

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