क्वासी विरेडू
अफ़्रीकी चिंतकों को विरासत में मिली पश्चिमी अवधारणाओं को अपनी भाषाओं के सामने परखना चाहिए, और पारंपरिक सर्वसम्मति दल-रहित लोकतंत्र का आधार बन सकती है।
पृष्ठभूमि
घाना के दार्शनिक: “वैचारिक उपनिवेशवाद-मुक्ति” – विरासत में मिली पश्चिमी अवधारणाओं को अकान जैसी अफ़्रीकी भाषाओं के सामने परखना।
मुख्य विचार
- वैचारिक उपनिवेशवाद-मुक्ति
- सर्वसम्मति-आधारित लोकतंत्र
- नृजाति-दर्शन की आलोचना
गुरु: गिल्बर्ट राइल
प्रभाव
जिनसे प्रभावित 2
जॉन डुई
जिनसे प्रभावित
Wiredu’s view of truth as opinion warranted by rational inquiry resembles Dewey’s ‘warranted assertibility’; an obituary names Dewey among his influences (Philosophy and an African Culture, 1980). K. Wiredu, Philosophy and an African Culture (1980), “Truth as Opinion”; J. Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (1938); C. Duodu, “Obituary of Prof Kwasi Wiredu, ‘the philosopher’s philosopher’”, Ghanaian Times (18 Jan. 2022)
साक्ष्य: AI मसौदा
जॉन डुई › 1859–1952
गिल्बर्ट राइल जिनसे पढ़ा
जिनसे पढ़ा
Wiredu came to University College, Oxford, in 1958 for the BPhil; his thesis, ‘Knowledge, Truth and Reason’, was supervised by Ryle, with Strawson as his college tutor. University College Oxford, obituary notice for K. Wiredu (2022)
साक्ष्य: InPhO में भी · InPhO
गिल्बर्ट राइल › 1900–1976
जिन्हें प्रभावित किया 2
मोगोबे रामोसे
जिन्हें प्रभावित किया विवादित
Ramose’s demand to free African philosophy from imposed concepts is close to Wiredu’s ‘conceptual decolonization’; a direct influence on African Philosophy through Ubuntu (1999) is uncertain. M. B. Ramose, African Philosophy through Ubuntu (1999); K. Wiredu, Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy (1995)
साक्ष्य: AI मसौदा
मोगोबे रामोसे › जन्म लगभग 1948
क्वामे एंथनी अप्पिया
जिन्हें प्रभावित किया
In In My Father’s House (1992, ch. 6) Appiah took up Wiredu’s argument that African traditional thought should be compared with Western folk thought rather than with Western science. K. A. Appiah, In My Father’s House (1992), ch. 6 “Old Gods, New Worlds”; K. Wiredu, “How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought” (1976), in Philosophy and an African Culture (1980)
साक्ष्य: AI मसौदा
क्वामे एंथनी अप्पिया › जन्म 1954
आलोचना
जिनके द्वारा आलोचित 1
क्वामे ज्येकी जिन्हें प्रभावित किया
जिन्हें प्रभावित किया
Gyekye shared Wiredu’s programme of critically analysing Akan concepts and co-edited with him Person and Community (1992), while disputing his reading of the okra. K. Wiredu and K. Gyekye (eds.), Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I (1992); K. Gyekye, An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (1987)
साक्ष्य: AI मसौदा
जिनके द्वारा आलोचित
Against Wiredu’s quasi-physical reading of the Akan okra, Gyekye held the Akan person to be dualistic, with an immaterial soul (An Essay on African Philosophical Thought, 1987). K. Gyekye, An Essay on African Philosophical Thought (1987), ch. 6; K. Wiredu, “The Akan Concept of Mind”, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies 3 (1983)
साक्ष्य: AI मसौदा
क्वामे ज्येकी › 1939–2019
जिनकी आलोचना की 1
कार्ल मार्क्स
जिनकी आलोचना की
In Philosophy and an African Culture (1980) Wiredu devoted two chapters to Marxism, criticising its accounts of truth, ideology and morality and arguing that features of Marxist philosophy help explain the authoritarianism of Marxist regimes. K. Wiredu, Philosophy and an African Culture (1980); D. Ude, Journal of Pan African Studies 12:5 (2018)
साक्ष्य: AI मसौदा
कार्ल मार्क्स › 1818–1883
कृतियाँ
परंपरा की आलोचनात्मक परीक्षा होनी चाहिए – अफ़्रीका में भी, पश्चिम में भी।
मत
Wiredu rejected the idea of a static, collective “African philosophy” and argued that traditions must be examined critically, in Africa as in the West. His program of “conceptual decolonization” asks African philosophers to test inherited Western concepts such as truth, mind or reality against their own languages. If a problem cannot even be formulated in Akan, it may rest on a quirk of English rather than on reality. Politically he proposed a “consensual democracy” modelled on Akan councils, which seek agreement instead of majority rule. Wiredu became one of the founders of modern academic philosophy in Africa.
जीवन और संदर्भ
Wiredu was born in Kumasi in the Gold Coast in 1931 and studied philosophy at the University of Ghana and then at Oxford, where Gilbert Ryle was among his teachers. For more than two decades he taught at the University of Ghana. From the late 1980s he worked at the University of South Florida in the United States. He died in January 2022.
अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ
- Philosophy and an African Culture (1980)
- Cultural Universals and Particulars (1996)
- A Companion to African Philosophy (2004)
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