European Philosophy Contradicting True Philosophy
Philosophy, in the dictionary states, the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. After reading the articles writing by Bruce Kuklick, Lucius Outlaw, and Alain Locke, philosophy has been perceived differently from its true meaning. European philosophy contradicts the true understanding of philosophy by the suppression and oppression of African American philosophy. By excluding African Americans, Europeans deprive philosophy of universality by suppressing blacks in humanity. Kulick studies philosophy through three time periods in American history, and explains how it differentiated …show more content…
Philosophy is apart of everything in existence including what it means to be human. Building philosophy assumptions based off nationality, ethnicity and culture is not associated with higher order thinking. Just as whites have culture, rights, justice, morals, and life experiences, blacks have entitled to those descriptions, justifying African Americans as humans also. In excluding blacks from philosophy also excludes a major concept of true philosophy. Bruce Kuklick In Kuklicks article he gets the understanding of philosophy by studying three different time periods. The First dealt with religion , the second dealt with science, and the third dealt with how we understand verusus how we actually apply it to everyday life. Kuklick studying of these periods, lead him to realize philosophy is changing and taking away from the advancement and development of the general public. Kuklick (1978) states in his article, “As I have indicated, many social scientists were not so astute in sorting out what was intellectually credible in the scientific ideal of my second period. The ideal provided the social scientist with a persuasive rationale for work.” (Kuklick
Philosophy, in the dictionary states, the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. After reading the articles writing by Bruce Kuklick, Lucius Outlaw, and Alain Locke, philosophy has been perceived differently from its true meaning. European philosophy contradicts the true understanding of philosophy by the suppression and oppression of African American philosophy. By excluding African Americans, Europeans deprive philosophy of universality by suppressing blacks in humanity. Kulick studies philosophy through three time periods in American history, and explains how it differentiated …show more content…
Philosophy is apart of everything in existence including what it means to be human. Building philosophy assumptions based off nationality, ethnicity and culture is not associated with higher order thinking. Just as whites have culture, rights, justice, morals, and life experiences, blacks have entitled to those descriptions, justifying African Americans as humans also. In excluding blacks from philosophy also excludes a major concept of true philosophy. Bruce Kuklick In Kuklicks article he gets the understanding of philosophy by studying three different time periods. The First dealt with religion , the second dealt with science, and the third dealt with how we understand verusus how we actually apply it to everyday life. Kuklick studying of these periods, lead him to realize philosophy is changing and taking away from the advancement and development of the general public. Kuklick (1978) states in his article, “As I have indicated, many social scientists were not so astute in sorting out what was intellectually credible in the scientific ideal of my second period. The ideal provided the social scientist with a persuasive rationale for work.” (Kuklick