PHL422: Intercultural Philosophy

Module 1: Introducing Intercultural Philosophy

• Unit 1: The Idea of Culture
• Unit 2: Further Reflection over the Meaning of Philosophy
• Unit 3: What is Intercultural Philosophy?
• Unit 4: Intercultural Philosophy is not Globalisation

Module 2: The Development of Scientific Thinking among Africans, Asians and Westerners

• Unit 1: Science and its Criterion Question
• Unit 2: Modern Science and Oriental Ethnoscience
• Unit 3: Ethnoscientific Reflections among Ancient Africans
• Unit 4: An Intercultural Engagement with African and Western Science

Module 3: Intercultural Philosophy and Some Thematic Concerns

• Unit 1: The “Historical Question” concerning Lao-Tzu, O ̣̀rúnmìlà and Socrates
• Unit 2: Lao-Tzu and O ̣̀rúnmìlà on the Discourse on Being
• Unit 3: Discourse on the Soul in African, European and Oriental Cultures
• Unit 4: African and Western Feminists on Patriarchy and Ectogenesis