Leah Kalmanson
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first heard Mar 2021
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And part of that goes back to the historical narrative we discuss in that in that first chapter of the book.
Which has to do with this this fiction that philosophy is Greek in origin.
Um, and I think it's a fiction that we all sort of grew up with.
Um there's some sentimental attachment to this narrative, you know, regarding sort of Socrates and his his his personality uh and the his sort of stat status as a as a founder of this particular style of subversive dialogue, you know.
Um
And
But when you read a book like Africa, Asia and the History of Philosophy, this is a book by Peter K.
J.
Pock.
Which is an amazing work in intellectual history that goes back and uncovers the fact that the Greek origin of philosophy was indeed proposed.
At a certain point in time during the life of Kant, and for sort certain very demonstrably racialized reasons, right?
That there was a narrative about racial essentialism promoted by only certain people at that time, which did hold that only certain groups of human beings were capable of philosophy.
And so philosophy had to begin with a group of white people.
And this was also around the time that this theory of race emerged on the scene such that the Greeks would even have been conceived of as something we now today understand when we use the word white.
So, just knowing that history and knowing that prior to this particular intervention in the way the canon was constructed, prior to that,
Philosop many histori historians of philosophy talked about diverse areas of the world that had philosophy or diverse origin points for philosophy.
That that that philosophy began in India, philosophy began in Egypt, philosophy began in these other places.
That when you realize that those were common narratives.
And that they were indeed purposefully excluded from the canon at a certain point in time.
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