African philosophy is broader than Western philosophy because it includes the West.

Evidence

Irrespective of the complex relationship between African philosophy and European philosophy, the autonomy of African philosophy lies in that it constitutes a rich intellectual field with a great internal diversity. It presents original perspectives on humanity, on knowledge and truth, and on the world, and its African traditions of thought are anchored in African cultures, histories, literatures and internal power dynamics. Based on these thoughts, African philosophy is broader in scope than Western philosophy because it includes the West in its self-articulation. In practice Western philosophy may be a subset of African philosophy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 906

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Echoes decolonial arguments by Ngugi wa Thiong’o and connects to debates on philosophical universality.
• SEED: Could seed an essay on what a ‘subset’ relation between philosophical traditions would mean for comparative philosophy.

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• African philosophy may encompass Western philosophy as a subset in its scope (similarity 0.96)
• Africa’s neglected philosophical traditions can reshape the very definition of philosophy (similarity 0.89)
• African philosophy must reshape the very idea of philosophy, not fit a Western template (similarity 0.89)
• African philosophy is both universal inquiry and continentally rooted cultural reflection (similarity 0.88)
• Treating African and Western as historical rather than geographical categories reveals shared philosophical ground. (similarity 0.88)
• Western-biased criteria define what counts as philosophy worldwide (similarity 0.87)
• A complete African philosophy must also engage Western theories because of globalization (similarity 0.87)
• Western philosophers adopt non-Western texts without changing their own foundational assumptions. (similarity 0.87)
• African philosophy has been defined more by negation than by positive formulation (similarity 0.87)
• African scholars collectively refute the colonial denial of African philosophy. (similarity 0.86)
• Full African philosophy spans diverse strands traceable from Egyptian Kemet (similarity 0.86)
• Bantu Philosophy’s historical lesson outweighs its philosophical lesson (similarity 0.86)
• The criteria defining philosophy today are biased toward Western construals. (similarity 0.86)
• African philosophy reduces to the relation between man, world and God (similarity 0.86)
• African philosophy sifts Western ideas to reject racism yet adopt useful knowledge (similarity 0.85)