Philosophy is never culturally neutral, making cultural contact a brutal act

Evidence

To claim that philosophy is culturally neutral is not true. For this reason the introduction of Western culture into another culture is always a brutal penetration. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 488

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with the reader’s Frankfurt School background on how rationality carries an embedded technical ‘interest,’ here extended to all philosophy as culture-bound rather than neutral. — connects to: Moral philosophy belongs to culture and thus coevolves with, rather than opposes, cognition. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 111
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 488