Philosophic Sagacity Flashcards
What is philosophical sagacity?
It is also called sage philosophy sagacity and it consists of thoughts exitessed by wise women and men and different form folk sagacity cuz it involves reflection, questioning and reasoning instead of just knowledge
It is a reflection and reposition of rigorous indigenous thought by Sages
What are some things that it perouates and who was it perpetuates by?
Literacy is not necessary for philosophical reflection and exposition and by Odera Oruka
Why is it necessary?
It is necessary because it is an African perspective, reflected on, analyzes and understood straight from an African’s mouth without any foreign or western influence which is what makes it most important and it is individually oriented
What is the methodology?
Participants: interviewer and philsage
Interviewer: trained philosopher who identifies, interviews & records/write/documents ideas of the Phil sage
Indemnification
How do you identify a Phil sage.
Trained philosopher chooses form Sages in the village
And they just meet the following m:
Reputation m: hella wise in these streets for everyone
Miniminal to 0 western/foreign influence
Must use their knowledge for the betterment of society
After this the interview begins and the trained philosopher records it
What is it?
It is universal philosophy
Critical
Free from the weaknesses of ethnic philosophy( purposes of people like Tempels, ignorance of misogyny, herd like mob thinking is what it assumes)
Free form western influence
It is a better way of showing existence of philosophy in lmaoo sub Saharan Africa
Critiques
The interviewer is most likely Foreign so their own influence comes in
Not enough views/ ideas cuz it’s usually a perspective on one issue presented