夸西·维雷杜
非洲思想家应当用他们自己的语言来检验继承来的西方概念，而传统的共识可以为一种没有政党的民主奠定基础。
定位
加纳哲学家：“概念去殖民化”——用阿肯语等非洲语言来检验继承而来的西方概念。
核心思想
- 概念去殖民化
- 共识民主
- 对民族哲学的批判
老师: 吉尔伯特·赖尔
影响
受影响于 2
约翰·杜威
受其影响
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)
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约翰·杜威 › 1859–1952
影响了 2
莫戈贝·拉莫塞
影响了 存在争议
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)
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莫戈贝·拉莫塞 › 约1948年年生
夸梅·安东尼·阿皮亚
影响了
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)
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夸梅·安东尼·阿皮亚 › 1954年生
批评
受批评于 1
夸梅·吉耶基 影响了
影响了
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)
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受其批评
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)
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夸梅·吉耶基 › 1939–2019
批评了 1
卡尔·马克思
批评了
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)
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卡尔·马克思 › 1818–1883
作品
- 1980哲学与非洲文化
传统必须受到批判性的审视——在非洲如同在西方。
立场
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.
生平与背景
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.
其他主要作品
- Philosophy and an African Culture (1980)
- Cultural Universals and Particulars (1996)
- A Companion to African Philosophy (2004)
出现在
- 争论 ‘去殖民化思想’
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