Teaching World Philosophies: An Essay

Author:Kirloskar-Steinbach, Monika

Article Title:Teaching World Philosophies: An Essay

Abstract:
To step up the activity level of academic philosophizing, Teaching World Philosophies will propose that one first engage in a thorough housecleaning before teaching world-philosophical traditions today. In the path that will be sketched as an example in this regard, I will critically engage the West, a concept that looms over an adequate academic engagement with world philosophies today. Bringing into the conversation Humayun Kabir's (1906-1969) analysis of philosophy as a space that can generate and foster critical independent thinking within a society, I will argue that a change in ingrained patterns of conducting a social activity like academic philosophy can be changed. This change might, in fact, be urgent especially in those locales in Europe in which academic philosophy as it is practiced today was crafted.

Keywords:  world philosophies; intellectual housecleaning; Humayun Kabir; hypophilosophy

DOI: 10.5840/teachphil2024723207

Source:TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

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