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  1. Sep 2024
  2. Aug 2024
  3. sakai.claremont.edu sakai.claremont.edu
    1. To deny the existence of African philosophy is also to reject the very idea ofphilosophy

      talked about this in class

    2. 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

    3. 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

    4. 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)

    5. 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

    6. 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

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

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

    8. There was thus an implicit distinction betweenPhilosophy and philosophy, the latter being the suitable label for the African’s claim.

      this is CRAZY

    9. 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

    10. 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!

    11. 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

    12. 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

    13. 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

    14. he ensuingstalemate in the christianization of the colonized

      stalemate constructed to maintain that oppressive system

    15. colonization and the christianization of the colonized

      throughout various cultures: african, indigenous, indian, etc

    16. 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

    17. 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!

    18. losing land to the conqueror, the African thereby lost a vital resourceto life

      land and culture connection

    19. 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

    20. The self-appointed heirs to the right to reason

      the white man

    21. to revive innate scepticism

      impact of african philosophy

    22. 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

    23. 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?

    24. benign forgivenes

      forgiveness of sexist philosophy = benign? curious as to what this means

    25. 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

    26. focus is placed first upon some of the main reasons whyAfrica was reduced to silence

      core piece of essay

  4. Jan 2024
    1. to benefit one’s friends and harm one’s enemies is justice

      socrates understanding of justice. so is justice subjective?

    2. 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?

    3. 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

    4. to have does the craft6 we call medicine give, and to whom orwhat does it give them

      medicinal skills and owing

    5. Sweet hope is in his heart,Nurse and companion to his age.Hope, captain of the ever-twistingMinds of mortal men

      Pindar poem?

    6. owe to each other

      how do you determined what is owed (especially when it comes to things that are intangible?)

    7. Should one also give one’s enemies whatever isowed to them

      creates the situation in which maybe your perception of justice is skewed

    8. definition of justice isn’t speaking the truth and repaying whatone has borrowed

      not universalisable like this

    9. thosewho have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those whochaven’t

      money and relationship with it

    10. As a money-maker I’min a sort of mean between my grandfather and my father

      "as a money maker"… then brings up family and inheritance

    11. A good person wouldn’t easily bear old age ifhe were poor, but a bad one wouldn’t be at peace with himself even if hewere wealthy

      aging and money

    12. they remember from their youth, those of sex, drinking parties, feasts, andthe other things that go along with them, and they get angry as if theyhad been deprived of important things

      major universal truth! ppl do this now

    13. Socrates

      are we looking through socrates' pov

    14. It seems, Glaucon said, that we’ll have to stay. bIf you think so, I said, then we must.

      both G and S agreed on staying

    15. Glaucon, the son of Ariston

      identifier: for Glaucon

  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. just a few decades ago

      it really puts everything in perspective to think how soon this all was

    3. 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

    4. intermar-riage added to this ethnic diversity

      consensual intermarriage?

    5. 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

    6. had their feet or heads cut off and put on sticks for the public to see as examples of punishment

      like the rubber plantations in Congo

    7. Tongva as Gabrielinos

      disgusting - they have no authority to do that

    8. 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).

    9. 310,000 Native Americans living in current-day California in 1769, only about one-sixth remained after a hundred years of colonization

      my GOD

    10. 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. new railroad was at the site of Pomona

      drought and fire were significant threats, and the dry heat of SoCal is a breeding ground for both

    2. a, godd

      the roman* goddess of fruit - relating to the fertile land at the bottom of the valley

    3. new railroad advertised excursions from Los Angeles to Spadra

      this and the orange farming helped to increase the population

    4. Rubottom's soon became the transportation center of the valley

      and this is all near the school… how a small town evolves

    5. $70.00 per mont

      thats about $1291.23 today

    6. ark and plante

      the same orange plants that started the rush of people moving to SoCal?

    7. ar Ganes

      like the indian (subcontinent India, not native-american indian) god?

    8. 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)?

    9. 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.

    10. 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?