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Liberty in African and Western Thought.
Mudimbe, V. Y. – 1988
The theoretical African mode of thinking about liberty seems to stand in contrast to the view of liberty that has dominated Western philosophy. Western philosophy accepts as its starting point the notion of an unconstrained and uncontextualized "I" that is defined in relation to the self and its inner being. Greek, Cartesian, and…
Descriptors: African Culture, Civil Liberties, Cultural Differences, Essays