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H. Odera Oruka
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Oruka investigates philosophical reasoning in oral dialogue. Sage philosophy requires attention to an individual’s arguments and to the interviewer’s role in selecting and presenting them.
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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.