Critique Of Ethnophilosophy Flashcards

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What is ethnophilosophy?

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The belief that indigenous cultures have their philosophies and ways of thinking and there’s a collective set of beliefs for Africa that isn’t really live individually but shared

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What does it believe?

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That African philosophy can be found in culture, religion, language and art and that AP is a group philosophy with no individual author.

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What are some critiques regarding women?

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The fact that it ignores structures that marginalize women because parables of creation just always have women coming after men and women always = destruction, havoc, witchcraft & war

It’s patriarchal in the sense of for example Ogotemmeli and the temples that masculinity is closer to divinity

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