The University of the West Indies, Mona

The course deals with the place of philosophy in the attempts of Caribbean people to understand, represent, interpret and shape reality with their innate human capacity to reason.  The course pursues the historically based philosophical explorations of, and reflections on, Caribbean conceptions of being, knowledge, ethics, aesthetics, and sexuality, space, existence, etc. The course addresses the question of the existence (historio-genesis) of Caribbean philosophy as thematized by Paget Henry, and the influences on it of local and external existential challenges as well as of Western, Oriental and African philosophies.