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The Ink of the Scholars Reflections on Philosophy in Africa
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Encre des savants. English
Title
The Ink of the Scholars [electronic resource] : Reflections on Philosophy in Africa / Souleymane Bachir Diagne ; translated from French by Jonathan Adjemian.
ISBN
286978743X
9782869787438
9782869787056
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (1 PDF (106 pages)).
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Translation of: L'encre des savants : réflexions sur la philosophie en Afrique.
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Summary
What are the issues discussed today by African philosophers? Four important topics are identified here as important objects of philosophical reflection on the African continent. One is the question of ontology in relation to African religions and aesthetics. Another is the question of time and, in particular, of prospective thinking and development. A third issue is the task of reconstructing the intellectual history of the continent through the examination of the question of orality but also by taking into account the often neglected tradition of written erudition in Islamic centres of learning. Timbuktu is certainly the most important and most famous of such intellectual centres. The fourth question concerns political philosophy: the concept of "African socialisms" is revisited and the march that led to the adoption of the "African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights" is examined. All these important issues are also fundamental to understanding the question of African languages and translation.
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Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 African Studies.
Project MUSE - 2017 Philosophy and Religion.
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October 10, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106).
Contents
Preface
Introduction
The force of living
Bantu philosophy : a contradictory text
Ontology of living force
Languages and translation
Proof by aesthetics
The time we need
That time we call African
Words to speak of time
To foresee or to anticipate
Speech and ink
Sense of urgency and the passage to writing
Philosophy and orality
Meanings of Timbuktu
Socialisms and democracy
The African path to socialism according to Nyerere
Socialism, consciencism, spiritualism and secularism
Senghor and humanist socialism
The democratic turn and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
Conclusion : lessons from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
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