Reason, cultural plurality and individuality between literature and philosophy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgmentThanks to Charne Lavery and Abe Stoll for comments on earlier versions of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity, 294.2 See Hull for discussion – though not endorsement – of this version of decoloniality theory.Hull, “Some Pitfalls of Decoloniality Theory,” 64; Hull, “Epistemic Ethnonationalism”; Hull, “Is Being Itself Colonial?”).3 Appiah, In My Father’s House; Wiredu, “Toward Decolonizing.”4 Wiredu, “How Not to Compare African,” 323).5 Hull, “Is Being Itself Colonial?”; Mills, “White Ignorance.”6 See Allais, “Problematising Western Philosophy”; Cantor, “Thales – The ‘First Philosopher’”; Park, Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy.7 Mills, Black Rights/White Wrongs; Mills, “Black Radical Kantianism.”.8 Ibid.9 See, for example, (Allais, “Kant’s Racism”; Mills, “Through a Glass Whitely.”10 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 8.11 Gyekye Citation1997; Matolino, “A Response to Metz’s Reply”; Matolino and Kwindingwi, “The End of Ubuntu,”, 203; Taiwo, “Against African Communalism,” 85.12 See Metz for an example of this. Metz, “How the West Was One”; Metz, “Toward an African Moral Theory”; Allais, “Humanness and Harmony.” I discuss this in (Allais, “Humanness and Harmony.”).13 Metz, “How the West Was One,” 1178.14 Wiredu warned against this decades ago. Wiredu, “How Not to Compare African Traditional,” originally published in 1976. See also (Allais, “Humanness and Harmony.”; Etieyibo, “African Philosophy”; Ramose, “But Hans Kelsen.”15 Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas, 3.Additional informationNotes on contributorsLucy AllaisLucy Allais is a philosopher working jointly in South Africa and the USA. She works partly in the history of philosophy and partly on moral emotions.