African Philosophy and Postmodern Rationality |
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Authors: | Philip Higgs |
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Institution: | University of South Africa Department of Educational Studies PO Box 392, Pretoria 0003 Republic of South Africa hlggsp@unlsa.ac.za |
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Abstract: | AbstractIn this essay I explore some of the ramifications that postmodernism, in its re-vision of Western rationality, holds for African philosophy. Insofar as African philosophy has associated itself with the traditional form of Western rationality, I argue that much can be gleaned by African philosophy from postmodernism's re-vision of Western rationality. The merits of such a postmodern re-vision of Western rationality for African philosophy include, an acknowledgement of alternative forms of reasoning and their accompanying cultural expressions; an insistence that knowledge production is not independent of moral and political value; a grounding of rationality in social relations; and a recognition of commitment, caring and feeling in rationality. |
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