The idea of ‘Western Philosophy’ is the product a legitimation project for European colonialism, through to post-second world war Pan-European identity formation and white supremacist projects. Thus argues Ben Kies (1917-1979), South African public intellectual, schoolteacher, trade unionist, activist-theorist. In his 1953 address Teachers’ League Africa, Contribution Non-European Peoples World...

Nonaka and Takeuchi [21] assert their theory of knowledge creation blends both Western and Japanese philosophy. Although they incorporate several major tenets of rational philosophy, they overlook important criticisms that impact their model. This paper explores one element of their theory — the "enabling condition" of intention — and suggests some limitations to their approach that can be over...

the principal problem in studying farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: greek political philosophy, iranshahri (persian polis) pre-islamic political thoughts, and islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: greek political philosophy/ fighi shari’at-name/ iranian siasat-name. this articl...

An analysis of what the concepts and practices philosophy, dialectics, sophistics are in context Western Chinese paradigms is suggested article. philosophic tradition based on so-called Antique paradigm that exceeds from idea attaining happiness avoiding suffering before face alien threatening reality, then it passes through Abrahamic its Christian version with ideas monotheism creationism achi...

Today, the study of consciousness within Western science and philosophy is polarized between investigations of third-person, objective, correlates (e.g., neuroscience and cognitive science) and investigations of first-person, subjective experience and phenomena (e.g., introspection and ~edita­ tion). These two perspectives set the terms of debate in contemporary consciousness research: Is consc...

African philosophy, at least the modern modality of its practice, is said to have been initiated by overwhelming question concerning existence: Is there an philosophy? No doubt such radical questioning “knowledges” from Africa determined overarching, indeed imperial, definition what understood be “philosophy”; in other words, this sought determine whether those knowledges fit category known “ph...

In this paper, we propose a multi-strategic matching and merging approach to find correspondences between ontologies based on the syntactic or semantic characteristics and constraints of the Topic Maps. Our multi-strategic matching approach consists of a linguistic module and a Topic Map constraints-based module. A linguistic module computes similarities between concepts using morphological ana...