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| Title: | Rationality in African philosophy: a critical reflection |
| Author: | Higgs, Philip |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-13 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | philosophy indigenous knowledge |
| Abstract: | The author explores some of the ramifications that the Western discourse of postmodernism may have on the notion of rationality in African philosophy and indigenous African knowledge systems in general. He concludes by arguing that the merits of such a discourse include its acknowledgment of alternative forms of reasoning and their accompanying cultural expressions; its insistence that knowledge production is not independent of moral and political value; its grounding of rationality in social relations; and its recognition of the role of commitment, caring and feeling in rationality - all of which speak of the true essence of indigenous African knowledge systems. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |
