Can you name me some significant sub-saharan african philosophers?

You are jusr going to dismiss the source because of memes?

No, because it's fucking retarded.

Does your color of skin having philosophers from thousands of years ago make you personally feel superior and validated?

Sad!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatata
authorscalendar.info/yacob.htm
K, it's not some dumb blog.

"Ooga." - Booga, 1890

/thread

I like how the author in dealing with the second nigger "philosopher" Who was educated in Halle completely omits mention of pietism.

Solid read. The author overstated his a
argument a bit but still..interesting as fuck

Yakub was born in Mecca tho.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_philosophy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zera_Yacob_(philosopher)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walda_Heywat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatata

>Hatata is a 1667 ethical philosophical treatise by the Abyssinian philosopher Zera Yacob, written at the request of his patron's son Walda Heywat. The philosophy is theistic in nature and came during a period when African philosophical literature was significantly oral in character. It has often been compared by scholars to Descartes' Discours de la methode (1637).

>Yacob wrote Hatata as an investigation of the light of reason. Yacob is most noted for this philosophy surrounding the principle of harmony. He asserted that an action's morality is decided by whether it advances or degrades overall harmony in the world. While he did believe in a deity, whom he referred to as God, he rejected any set of religious beliefs. Rather than deriving beliefs from any organized religion, Yacob sought the truth in observing the natural world.

>Knowing thus two Christian interpretations of the Bible, as well as the two other Abrahamic religions, and seeing the contradictions between them, Zera Yacob is led to refuse the authority of the Ethiopian tradition and of any tradition in general. He comes to think that the tradition is infested by lies, because men, in their arrogance, believe that they know everything and thus refuse to examine things with their own mind, blindly accepting what has been transmitted to them by their forefathers. The philosopher accepts then as unique authority his reason, and accepts from the Scriptures and from the dogmas only what resists a rational inquiry. He affirms that the human reason can find the truth, if it searches it and does not get discouraged in front of the difficulties.

>Thus, by his piece-meal examination (this is what hatätä means), Zera Yacob arrives at an argument for the existence of God (an essence uncreated and eternal), based on the impossibility of an infinite chain of causes, and at the conviction that the Creation is good, because God is good. This belief is the basis for a criticism of ascetic morals and of some Jewish and Islamic moral precepts as well. By identifying the will of God with what is rational Zera Yacob rejects most of these moral precepts (e.g. concerning polygamy, or fasting, or sexual or alimentary interdictions) as blasphemy. He seems to think that all is good for the good one, reminding thus of the mode of thought expressed in the profession of faith of the other great Zera Yaqob, the Emperor from the 15th century.

Ethiopians are barely black

Orunmila is the Yoruba equivalent of Socrate

>I-i-it doesn't count!!!1!!11
Nice cherrypicked image.

1. Ethiopians aren't a single ethnic group

2. They all look pretty fucking black to me, your girl is from the Tigray ethnicity and comes from this website, you can tell her skin looks lighter there because of the fucking flash on her face.

tigraionline.com/bahlina.html

3. OP said "Sub-Saharan African philosophers". Ethiopia is in SSA.

Cry more stormfag.

Anton-Wilhelm Amo

tribuneonlineng.com/book-review-comparing-lives-socrates-orunmila/

guardian.ng/art/socrates-and-orunmila-putting-premium-on-africas-indigenous-philosophy/

A more interesting question is "What SSA PHILOSOPHY do you know", and here, we've a lot of indigenous concept, some suggestions :

- Socrates and Orunmila: Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy
- plato.stanford.edu/entries/akan-person/
- plato.stanford.edu/entries/african-ethics/
- plato.stanford.edu/entries/africana/
- The Akan Doctrine of God
- African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities

> We Wuz Flosfers and shieeet

As J. R. Baker (1974) describes it, the impression gained is of a poor level
of civilization, including naked or near naked appearance, sometimes broken
by an amulet or ornament rather than a covering of the genital area;
self-
mutilation as in filing down the teeth and piercing the ears and lips to admit
large ornaments; poorly developed toilet and sanitary
habits;
one-story dwell
ings of simple construction; villages rarely reaching 6 or 7 thousand inhabit
ants or being interconnected with roadways; simple canoes excavated from
large trees with no joining parts; no invention of the wheel for pottery or
grinding corn or vehicular transport; little domestication of animals or using
them for labor or transport; no written script or recording of historical events;
no use of money; no invention of a numbering system, nor of a calendar.
Some explorers were struck by the absence of administration and code of
law. Examples were told of chiefs despotically killing at will for minor breaches
of etiquette or even for pleasure. When the explorer Speke gave Mutesa, the
king of Buganda, a rifle, the king tried it out on a woman prisoner. When
witchcraft was suspected, hundreds might be slaughtered often with grotesque
forms of execution. When slavery was practiced, slave owners were at liberty
to kill their slaves. In some places cannibalism was practiced. Nowhere did
there appear to exist any formal religion with sanctified traditions, beliefs
about the origin of the world, or ethical codes with sentiments of mercy.

The explorers found Africans to be of low intelligence with few words to
express abstract thoughts and little interest in intellectual
matters.
Speke wrote
that the Negro thinks only for the moment and prefers to spend the day as
lazily as possible. Livingstone wrote that the tribes lacked foresight, thinking
it futile of the explorer to plant date seeds in full knowledge that he would
never see the fruit. S. W. Baker (1866: 396-397) thought that young black
children were "in advance, in intellectual quickness, of the white child of similar
age"
but that "the mind does not expand—it promises fruit, but does not ripen."

Does this somehow change their geographical position?

>get into wewuz threads for shitposting
>realize Afrucan history was actually really interesting and underrated

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy

Personally, I have a taste for Yoruba philosophy and Akan religion.

Literally >WUZ
>No written language.
>Just shit down their leg
>No ability for abstract thought.
>but, We Wuz Flosfers, Shiiiiiiiiieeeeet

>An explorer go to 1 place in Africa
>/pol/ logic --> Africa is like that in general

>animals transport
historytoday.com/do-morgan/horse-west-african-history

>no use of money
africa.si.edu/exhibits/site/cowrie.htm

>no invention of a numbering system
Read "Africa counts"

Some example:
etopia.sintlucas.be/3.14/Ishango_meeting/Mathematics_Africa.pdf
muse.jhu.edu/book/46365

>nor of a calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borana_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_calendar

>Some explorers were struck by the absence of administration and code of
law

Read "indigenous African institution".

>Nowhere did there appear to exist any formal religion with sanctified traditions, beliefs about the origin of the world, or ethical codes with sentiments of mercy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_religion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomean_religion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odinani
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_mythology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinka_religion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_animism (Hausa also practice Islam)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotuko_mythology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_religion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_African_religions

>no pavements

books.google.ca/books?id=-U70Ts7CgEYC&pg=PA84

Mbembe

Nelson Mandela created an alternative to coherentism, foundationalism and infinitism that he called necklacing.

Wuz-tier Shiiiiiiet.

I'm not going to play WUZ with you all day.
The current state of Africa and the descendants thereof with their inability to integrate into society is as far as one needs to look.
After having sorted through that WUZ history it is notable that even with a political agenda, it was not really a worthy effort, that is to revise black history in such an opaque manner for all to see that is, half the links used as reference are nonexistent.

...

>when you don't have arguments
>WE WUZ MEMES

Lol you are dumb m8

Akan:
cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/forty-days-the-akan-calendar/B35D42B8CA25279AF8D0894ADC26C372

Yoruba:
books.google.tg/books?id=2zanfxcor8UC&pg=PT299&dq=yoruba calendar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib1uvX1dPZAhWM6aQKHeYlC_8Q6AEIKzAG#v=onepage&q=yoruba calendar&f=false

Borana:
adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1987JHAS...18...35R

Igbo:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_calendar
ajol.info/index.php/og/article/download/140104/129859
pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=pcw&id=pcw_1994_0001_0001_0001_0008

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba_calendar

- Anton-Wilhem Amo
- Achille Mbembe
- Orunmila
- Zera Yacob

We get it, Western civilization was on point and others not so much. What are you trying to prove?

...

Dunno man

"Wherever I am, I must also rape." - Darnell Brown, 2015

martin luthering obv

youtube.com/watch?v=vLXOkZtAkPw

why do you use straw man? I never stated that Egyptians were Black. Can you use real arguments?

>Orunmila
Orunmila is a deity.

No orunmila is the Yoruba equivalent of Socrate.

I love Nilotic culture and their sexy women, don't care about flushing yourself in cow urine and rolling around in dung ash in the morning to ward off ticks before tending cattle for the day or having to knock your two front teeth as a right of passage into manhood. It's a shame their culture has been caught between Islamization and evangelization.

Ignore him, he isn't interested in an actual answer to his question, he's just an edgy /pol/ kid who wants to "epically btfo le stupid niggers"

The two last links don't count because it's a translation of European calendar, Yoruba calendar use references that aren't available no more(but you can see it with archive.com) but not academic, the references in the post are better)

Yeah I will ignore people like him now.

the two last links in the calendar section*

ITT: /pol/ once again proves why nobody takes them seriously

Obama

Obama is a mulatto American.

Where can I find some of their book, Hatata for instance?

Wtf I hate niggers now