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Title: | Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledge: An African Perspective |
Author: | Masolo, D.A. |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | Fall/Winter |
Pages: | 21-38 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | indigenous knowledge philosophy ethnophilosophy Health and Nutrition Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v050/50.2masolo.pdf |
Abstract: | Rooted in the 1940s, the debate on African ethnophilosophy foreshadowed and preempted what was to become a global debate on philosophy and indigenous knowledge, whose tenets have now brought the natural and social sciences close together. Mediated by philosophers' scepticism toward objectivism (also called realism), scientists on both sides clearly agree that all knowledge is human-centred or driven by human interests, and therefore indigenous in various respects. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |