Specifically contemporary Sub-Saharan. Here's an interesting article
What can Veeky Forums tell me about African philosophy?
Mason Johnson
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Adrian Cruz
Also, bonus:
How the thread looks like on /r/philosophy
Christian Torres
Veeky Forums keep saying my post is a spam, so :
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Colton Williams
You have to go back
Logan Nelson
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Austin Brooks
>there is redddddit in the URL
Go back to reddddit invader.
Elijah Turner
Eating cow pussy good for releasing urine. Cow urine good for dying hair.
African philosophy in a nutshell.
Isaac Evans
Dinka tribe is sure the only tribe in Africa.
Charles Edwards
From what I've gathered African philosophy is mostly geared toward fuck whitey, save the environment, science is racist colonialism.
Dylan Cooper
>?utmsource=Reddit
Oliver Long
en.wikipedia.org
automatically redirects to European practices of using cow piss and shitwater for medicinal purposes.
Isaac Hughes
Got to the faq, and don't put banned word or url, like "reddit"
Julian Morales
Go to*
Jaxson Wood
I have to agree on that.
Grayson Campbell
Juan Harris
The average sub saharan negro IQ is below 70. Do you really expect a philosophical system from them?
David Thompson
This is a review of Danquah's "Akan doctrine of God".
Cameron Smith
David Baker
Aaron Wright
Although Africa is extremely diverse, there appear to be some shared moral ideas across many ethnic groups.[6] In a number of African cultures, ethics is centered on a person's character, and saying "he has no morals" translates as something like "he has no character".[6] A person's character reflects the accumulation of her deeds and her habits of conduct; hence, it can be changed over a person's life.[6] In some African cultures, "personhood" refers to an adult human who exhibits moral virtues, and one who behaves badly is not considered a person, even if he is considered a human.[6]
While many traditional African societies are highly religious, their religions are not revealed, and hence, ethics does not center around divine commands.[6] Instead, ethics is humanistic and utilitarian: it focuses on improving social functioning and human flourishing.[6] On the other hand, social welfare is not a mere aggregate of individual welfare; rather, there is a collective "social good" embodying values that everyone wants, like peace and stability.[6] In general, African ethics is social or collectivistic rather than individualistic and united in ideology.[6] Cooperation and altruism are considered crucial.[6] African ethics places more weight on duties of prosocial behaviour than on rights per se, in contrast to most of Western ethics.[6]
Owen Ward
West Africa Edit
The most prominent of West Africa's pre-modern philosophical traditions has been identified as that of the Yoruba philosophical tradition and the distinctive worldview that emerged from it over the thousands of years of its development. Philosophical concepts such as Omoluabi were integral to this system, and the totality of its elements are contained in what is known amongst the Yoruba as the Itan. The cosmologies and philosophies of the Akan, Dogon and Dahomey were also significant.
Islamic Edit
Historically the West African philosophical traditions have had a significant impact on Islamic philosophy as a whole as much of the Islamic philosophical tradition was subject to the influence of scholars born or working in the African continent in centres of learning such as Djenne and Timbuktu in Mali. Many of these intellectuals and scholars created a philosophical tradition in these cities.
Horn of Africa Edit
In the Horn of Africa, there are a number of sources documenting the development of a distinct Ethiopian philosophy from the first millennium onwards. Among the most notable examples from this tradition emerge from the work of the 17th-century philosopher Zera Yacob, and that of his disciples.
Southern Africa Edit
In Southern Africa and Southeast Africa the development of a distinctive Bantu philosophy addressing the nature of existence, the cosmos and humankind's relation to the world following the Bantu migration has had the most significant impact on the philosophical developments of the said regions, with the development of the philosophy of Ubuntu as one notable example emerging from this worldview.
Kevin Reed
Central Africa Edit
Many Central African philosophical traditions before the Bantu migration into southern Central Africa have been identified as a uniting characteristic of many Nilotic and Sudanic peoples, ultimately giving rise to the distinctive worldviews identified in the conceptions of time, the creation of the world, human nature, and the proper relationship between mankind and nature prevalent in Dinka mythology, Maasai mythology and similar traditions.
Xavier Cox
Aaron Long