Olusegun Morakinyo (University of Johannesburg): Publications - PhilPeople

University of Johannesburg

Post-doctoral fellow

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Areas of Interest

Social and Political Philosophy

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

African/Africana Philosophy

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Integrating African heritage studies as a new terrain of African philosophy
South African Journal of Philosophy 35 (1): 70-81. 2016.

African Philosophy: General Works
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Notion of African as a strategic ideological epistemic position in African philosophy
Phronimon 7 (2): 1-17. 2016.

This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African philosophy as a disciplined methodological inquiry into the question of African - and the African question in philosophy. It articulates instead a strategic ideological notion of "African" in African philosophy; defined by a commitment to the ethics of social justice for the historical injustice…Read more
This article argues that the racial essentialism implicit in the geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy (as black, ethnic and sub-Saharan) limits the development of African philosophy as a disciplined methodological inquiry into the question of African - and the African question in philosophy. It articulates instead a strategic ideological notion of "African" in African philosophy; defined by a commitment to the ethics of social justice for the historical injustice of racial dehumanisation of Africans, to transcend the racial essentialism implicit in the above geographic criteria of the meaning of "African" in African philosophy.