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PH26B: Introduction to African Philosophy II

  
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  1. The Controversy about African Philosophical Tradition:
    1. The question of the definition of philosophy.
    2. What is African philosophy?
    3. Who is an African philosopher?
    4. Text in African philosophy.
  2. Peculiarities of Philosophy in an Oral Society: Any specific mode of thought marking out African systems?
    1. Sources of African philosophical thought.
    2. Collective and individual thought.
    3. Language and philosophical thought.
    4. The "open and closed" predicament?
  3. The relationship between myth, legend, history, religion, philosophy and science in general.
  4. Phases of discourse in African Philosophy.
    1. Negritude.
    2. Ethnophilosophy.
    3. Philosophic sagacity.
    4. Positivism and Neo-positivism in African philosophy.
  5. The natural order of things in African thought.
    1. Causality.
    2. Being and time.
    3. Life, Death and After Life.
 
 
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