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Title: | Sage philosophy: criteria that distinguish it from ethnophilosophy and make it a unique approach within African philosophy |
Author: | Presbey, Gail M. |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Philosophia Africana: Analysis of Philosophy and Issues in Africa and the Black Diaspora |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 127-160 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya |
Subjects: | ethnophilosophy cultural philosophy |
About persons: | Henri Odera Oruka (1944-1995) F. Ochieng'-Odhiambo Kibujjo M. Kalumba |
Abstract: | The Kenyan philosopher Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995) articulated a positive role for studies of African traditions of thought, which avoided the shortcomings of ethnophilosophy. He incorporated those studies into 'sage philosophy'. In his studies with sages, Odera Oruka explored his interest in issues of cultures in encounters with each other and in historical transition. The present author, who engaged in sage philosophy research with Odera Oruka, examines and criticizes articles by Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo and Kibujjo Kalumba on Odera Oruka's sage philosophy project. Attention is paid to the attributes of sage philosophy that distinguish it from ethnophilosophy; reasons for including folk sagacity in the sage project; and the goals of the sage philosophy project and the question of 'extraverted discourse'. The author particularly refutes Ochieng'-Odhiambo's opinion that Odera Oruka's later work (after 1984) should be abandoned. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |