Taking our problems seriously : the legacy of Paulin J. Hountondji
As we remember and celebrate the life of Paulin Hountondji, a pioneer and one of the blaze-setters of contemporary African philosophy, it is important to remember the cross-roads at which he and his peers entered the stage of academic philosophy. He spearheaded the crusade to save Africa from ridicu...
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2025
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| Shrnutí: | As we remember and celebrate the life of Paulin Hountondji, a pioneer and one of the blaze-setters of contemporary African philosophy, it is important to remember the cross-roads at which he and his peers entered the stage of academic philosophy. He spearheaded the crusade to save Africa from ridicule that, through what he famously called “ethnophilosophy” as example of such ridicule, reduced African cultures, and African thought particularly, to preoccupations with archaic mythical imaginations that did not lend intellectual visions to dealing with and resolving Africans’ practical problems. This brief essay narrates the story about the cradle of contemporary African philosophy in which the late Paulin J. Hountondji, together with his peers at the University of Lubumbashi in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo, together with others at other African universities, took it upon themselves to define African thought, and African philosophy in particular, as a serious undertaking to understand the world and human experience at par with other traditions. |
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