Answer to Question #190610 in Law for siya

Question

For a value of 20 marks each please discuss briefly what your understanding of the following contains: “Ethnophilosophy” (you may refer to relevant sub-branches, problems/concerns and figures in the course of answering this question)

Answer 1

Ethnophilosophy is the study of indigenous philosophical systems. The implicit concept is that a specific culture can have a philosophy that is not applicable and accessible to all peoples and cultures in the world. The most notable characteristic of the ethnophilosophy school was its characterization of philosophy as a kind of collective narrative. Ethnophilosophers treated African philosophy as a narrative whose content is revealed through various codes, such as myth, symbolic systems and religious and ordinary language. Ethno-philosophy is just like Western philosophy, as it is based on a recognized form of reasoning, namely inductive reasoning, packaged in proverbs, riddles and other cultural resources.