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Indigenous philosophy
Indigenous peoples in Africa and the Americas developed their own answers to the oldest philosophical questions: what reality is, what a person is, what truth is and how to live well. Studying them takes care, because much of this thought was carried in speech, story and practice rather than in written treatises.
In this topic
- From myth to reason, gradually
- Studying Indigenous philosophy
- African philosophy and the ethnophilosophy debate
- Ubuntu and sage philosophy
- Olúwọlé: Ọ̀rúnmìlà and Socrates
- Worked example: weighing Olúwọlé's comparison
- Native North American thought
- Maya thought: writing, time and creation
- Aztec metaphysics and knowledge
- Worked example: two ideas of truth
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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