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Paulin Hountondji quotes on critique

4 verified English passages where Paulin Hountondji’ s thought meets questions of critique.

Paulin Hountondji on critique

Paulin Hountondji (1942–2024) approaches critique within Africana Philosophy. African philosophy is a literature of texts by Africans who call their work philosophy—not ethnological reconstruction of a people’s silent Weltanschauung. He coined ‘ethnophilosophy’ for Tempels-style projects and insisted that sage thought is not automatically the thought of all Africans. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets critique most directly—useful for searches such as “paulin hountondji quotes on critique.”

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  1. By 'African philosophy' I mean a set of texts, specifically, the set of texts written by Africans and described as philosophical by their authors themselves.
  2. In fact, it is an ethnological work with philosophical pretensions, or more simply, if I may coin the word, a work of 'ethnophilosophy'.
  3. Contemporary African philosophy, inasmuch as it remains an ethnophilosophy, has been built up essentially for a European public. The African ethnophilosopher's discourse is not intended for Africans.
  4. Philosophy, by definition, is an individual critical activity; the myth of a collective, unanimous African philosophy must be discarded.