Philosophical dialogue requires abandoning essentialist claims on any single logic

Evidence

Within this development fits the call by Pascah Mungwini (Chapter 3) that philosophy in Africa must further define its own priority questions and together with other philosophies help set the agenda for meaningful dialogue in world philosophy. Today’s challenge for philosophers, in continental and world philosophy, is to present their analysis in a pluri-philosophical framework and in such a way that their methodology is acceptable for philosophical partners. In Beyond “Bantu Philosophy” all authors’ analysis depend on both African and Western categories. By doing, the essays express that an essentialist claim on Bantu or Western logic has no validity. The necessity to adopt a dialectical methodology for discussing African and Western (also Asian, the Americas, and Oceanian) philosophies means that the traditional interpretive frameworks have to abandon assumptions of self-evidence and allow for other philosophical methodologies if we are to understand and realize a dialogue about the philosophical issues of our time. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1036

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘pluri-philosophical framework’ as one where methodologies acceptable across philosophical partners replace essentialist claims on single logics.