|
|
 |
Villager Senior
|
|
Posts: 4,136
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: , Florida, USA
|
|
|
imported post -
23-03-06, 01:05 PM
Mezmerized wrote:
Quote:
|
Just added my vote inniceone.gif..if there was ever a time i enjoyed school, it was when i was studying Philosophy for my A levels, i absolutely loved it!banana.gif
|
Quote:
|
=============================
|
Quote:
|
When I was in school, I must say that I typically hated Philosophy class. They are usually based on European philosophy and will tell you that philosophy began about 500 BCE with the Greeks. I got in an argument with my philosophy professor about that, where I argued that the Black civilizations of Sumer, Indus Valley, original Chinese Dynasties, Olmecs, ancient Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and of course Egypt had religion (which is a subset of philosophy) therefore had a philosophy hundreds and thousands of years before the Greeks. He basically told me that the Egyptians and everyone else I named didn't "really know what they were doing" until the Indo-European caught up with the rest of the world. We went back and forth for a good 5 or 10 minutes, but then I decided to just shut up because I couldn't win anyhow. I needed the class to graduate and was not about to let this ignorant educated fool take that from me.
|
Quote:
|
Anyhow, I would hope that we would explore more African philosophies, because if you buymost philosophy books you will get the white perspective.
|
A Luta Continua—Lasima Tushinde Mbilishaka
|
 |