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Ethnophilosophy presents a people’s shared outlook as philosophy. Hountondji’s criticism asks what happens when that presentation erases individual argument and disagreement.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 74
Who is speaking when a philosophy is called communal?
Gyekye and Wiredu offer their own argued interpretations of Akan personhood. Hountondji criticizes the assumption that a whole people speaks with one voice, and Oruka investigates individual reasoning in oral dialogue.