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65538e No.3244

Is African philosophy relevant? Is there any interesting theory or ideas that they've generated?

Is Middle Eastern philosophy relevant? Is there any interesting theory or ideas that they've generated?

65538e No.3248

>>3244

>Is African philosophy relevant? Is there any interesting theory or ideas that they've generated?

no

>Is Middle Eastern philosophy relevant? Is there any interesting theory or ideas that they've generated?

yes


65538e No.3249

>>3248

>no

Really? Absolutely nothing?

>yes

What then?

>inb4 islam


65538e No.3254

>>3244

Relevant to who? To us in the "West"?

>Africa

No.

Inasfar as Africa has produced "philosophy", there is as far as I know no philosophy comparable to anything in the west, that is, deliberately systematic and thought out concepts. The only African philosophy I'm aware of is basically implied philosophy, meaning, the concepts that underlies their legal as well as spiritual institutions. This is hardly philosophy imo since literally every fucking human society obviously has that and religious doctrines.

>Eastern

No. Inasfar as the east has philosophy (India and China certainly do), most of it is incompatible with our western standards of rationality and lifestyles. The most popular eastern philosophies penetrate into the west not as philosophies, but as life guides, e.g. Buddhism and other mysticisms. These too, however, are not really relevant to us since the West has its own traditions (Stoicism is our version of Buddhism).

The East has no analogue to Kant and post-Kantian philosophy, which defines modern philosophy in the West both on the analytic and continental sides. This is most likely because, well, the west was the vanguard of modernity. You don't see these original developments concerning scientific ontology and the language and social turn in eastern philosophy because the east encountered modernity not as it developed, but as it was imposed on them. Anything there is in eastern philosophy like this is borrowed from the west now, you don't see us importing eastern philosophy because frankly it has nothing new on these topics. If you're interested in pre-Kantian philosophical issues the east definitely has a lot to offer, some very good arguments and refined concepts in that area can be found.




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