Philosopher of the Sages
Henry Odera Oruka
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A Kenyan philosopher who recorded conversations with village sages to show that critical, reasoned thought lived in oral cultures too, and who mapped the main trends in African philosophy.
Key work: Sage Philosophy: Indigenous Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy (1990)
“We can as well start afresh by interviewing sage Africans and eliciting philosophical expositions from them.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Philosophy does not need writing; it needs reasons.
A folk sage repeats the tradition; a philosophic sage questions it.
Ask the wise person, and let them speak for themselves.
Read more: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, African Sage Philosophy
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