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  1. Sep 2024
  2. Aug 2024
  3. sakai.claremont.edu sakai.claremont.edu
    1. one of the unstated presuppositions of this question is that African philosophy is not onlyan expression of the already familiar in Western philosophy but that it also relies upon itfor its existence.

      an interesting thing to consider here

    2. Dialogue being the basisof deliberation, it is clear that the liberation of philosophy is possible only throughdialogue.

      CORE PIECE OF PAPER: liberation of philosophy impossible without communication, communication impossible when subfields of philosophy are segregated and questioned

    3. The inclusion is necessary for the liberation of philosophy from theoverwhelming one-sidedness of the history of Western philosophy

      the core piece of how philosophy is trapped is that the exact study of life and the questions it poses is trapped within this white supremacist jar, where other perspectives are denoted as such, without being able to compete with the main thread of the study (the white western one)

    4. Resistance to this is tantamount to the rejection of liberation. It is precisely standing firmin the position of the de-liberation of philosophy.

      curious to expand on this concept

    5. ducational curriculum is by definition the terrain of ideological struggle

      the domain in which these narratives are oppressed in real time and blurred with western supremacy

    6. elf-knowledgecan never be complete without reference to one’s roots

      identity and cultural philosophies descending through generations, language, culture, land, memory

    7. In this way, the question assumes anontological character: it calls into question the humanity of the African

      circling back to the men are rational creatures but only the white man - just the original oppressive thought in a different font

    8. Non-Africansare the principal initiators of this question

      No one questions european philosophy and its right to exist, and no one calls it european philosophy, it is sorted into its appropriate subdivisions but all of africana philosophy is one division and thus is inherent ignorance!

    9. calls for aradical overhaul of the whole epistemological paradigm underlying the currenteducational system

      things need to be restarted from SCRATCH otherwise these colonial and oppressive teachings are ingrained

    10. decontextualized to the extent that it systematically and persistently ignored andexcluded the experience of being-an-African in Africa.

      100%. regardless of the universality of the western philosophies, and the interactions between questions derived from african-living and western philosophies, there is still to be acknowledged that western teachings in african spaces is inherently colonial

    11. notnecessarily based upon the living experience

      philosophy comes from scholars and gaonwallas, all of whom understand the living condition of their own dominated space, and thus, philosophies and philosophers are everywhere and are a manifestation of the way of living

    12. ensuring that the conferencewould adopt resolutions that would absolve them from both the moral and the legal guiltof the violence of colonization and the inhumanity of racism

      Continuing the cycle of oppression through the maintenance of it

    13. tmust be emphasized in favour of the United States and, with particular reference tohostile sentiment towards Israel or the world Jewry, that it is ethically imperative tooppose vigorously anyone who contemplates a repeat of the irrationality and theinhumanity of Hitler’s holocaust.

      well yes!

    14. democracy became inadvertently theroute towards the inhumanity as well as the irrationality of the holocaust

      an interesting thought… curious as to exactly how and what is meant by this

    15. questionable belief that ‘man is a rational animal’ excludes the African, the Amerindian,and the Australasian

      Decolonisation didnt dismantle this aristotelian construct that the rational creature that is man doesnt extend past eurocentric communities

    16. Aristotle’s definition of man was deeply inscribed in the social ethos of thosecommunities and societies that undertook the so-called voyages of discovery—apparentlydriven by innocent curiosity

      So what defines a rational being/man is innocent curiousity/desire to discover?

    17. for him the existence of his mother appeared to beinsignificant

      Aristotle erases the existence and acknowledgement of his own mother through the pure recognition of man as rational

  4. Jan 2024
    1. Isn’t the person most ableto land a blow, whether in boxing or any other kind of fight, also mostable to guard against it

      is the metaphor here: those who are capable of injustices are also capable of ensuring justice? what does that look like? are those not antithetical unless the agent of injustice was very aware of their transgressions?

    2. someone a good and useful partner in a game of checkers becausehe’s just or because he’s a checkers player?bBecause he’s a checkers player.

      typical of it being difficult to define things in philosophy... how do you define a just person, how do you define when justice is necessary, etc

  5. Mar 2023
    1. Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International has recognizedthat indigenous peoples and their land management practices should be partof any serious effort to restore and preserve ecosystems.

      hope

    1. the word resource, which now connotes ownership and pro-duction for profit, comes from the old French feminine past participle re-sourdre, which meant “to rise again.”18 The word horticulture, which comesfrom the roots hortus (“to garden”) and culture (“to take care of, worship,cultivate, respect”

      language and plants

    2. The shallow image of the conservation-mindedIndian who hardly uses, let alone influences nature and feels guilty aboutbreaking a branch is perhaps based on a romantic notion stemming fromEuro-American longings to have those same tendencies rather than onserious research into indigenous lifeways.

      very similar to women = virgins = precious/naive whatever

      model minority kinda

    3. today, Bodega Miwok/Dry Creek Pomo women gather edible peppernuts (Umbellularia califor-nica) along stream banks; Yokuts men dig yerba mansa (Anemopsis califor-nica) tubers for medicine in wind-riffled valley grasslands; Cahuilla womenpluck long golden flowering stalks from deergrass (Muhlenbergia rigens)tufts along desert washes for their baskets.

      Indigenous plant practices

  6. Sep 2021
    1. ongva’s cultural presence in the LA Basin keeps growing.

      I fear some may be afraid to come forward and are still in hiding because thats what their ancestors and history taught them

    2. modern off-reservation boarding high school for Native American Indian students.”

      how much have their curriculums changed? oftentimes there is still bias that perpetuates over the years

    3. bodies in mass graves remain nameless at the Missions of San Diego and San Francisco de Asís

      why is it still nameless - this part of history should be acknowledged by California's missions rather than hid

    4. history that many missions still fall short of acknowledging.

      missions are parallel to WWII concentration camps but we still educate kids with the idea that its normal and important to understand California's current state (as opposed to how extreme the concentration camps are presented to be in high school - which they are, but the U.S. education system is very hypocritical in this case).

    5. Right behind LA’s world-famous Hol-lywood sign lies Cahuenga (or Kawenga) Peak, the Tongva’s “place in the mountains.

      Juxtaposition between the white-washed monument in SoCal and the original indigenous monument (Hollywood sign and the Peak)

    1. ng to Jasper N. Teague, pioneer of San Di

      are these people all the ones who were plagued by drought and fire (mentioned in the History of Pomona College as the reason for the scant population before the influx after the construction of the railroad)?

    2. ty to Mission Sa

      ironic that the article explains how Americans came to Pomona valley and here it mentions its proximity to a mission, a place where the true American people and their culture of the time were being erased.

    3. ended his life with a shot gun, a favorite way of ending one's life in those days

      The way this is phrased implies this type of suicide was common. What about life in this place and era desensitised society to this type of behaviour?