Author: Alex Masangu St. Augustine University of Tanzania, P.O. Box 307, Mwanza – Tanzania Email: masanguag@hotmail.com Abstract Any expectation of Africans’ active participation in philosophical learning, teaching and research is strongly opposed to Hegel’s understanding of Africans. The German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is namely the architect of what I call the Hegelian contempt….
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Matthew Lipman on philosophy for children: a look at the root advocacy
Author: Alex Masangu St. Augustine University of Tanzania, P.O. Box 307, Mwanza, Tanzania Email: masanguag@hotmail.com Abstract The striving for philosophical education is among the necessary conditions for effective advocacy of philosophy. In the year 2007, through the book titled Philosophy, a school of freedom: Teaching philosophy and learning to philosophize: Status and prospects, the United…
John Rawls on the Idea of Public Reason: an Enquiry into a Philosophical Response to Political Absurdity
Author: Alex Masangu St. Augustine University of Tanzania, P.O. Box 307, Mwanza – Tanzania Email: masanguag@hotmail.com Abstract A striving for a conception of reasonable political organisation presupposes an excellent understanding of the idea of public reason. Yes, such an idea concerns the fact of reasonable pluralism. Because such an idea is founded on political conceptions…