, PLS1501 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - DUE March 2025; 100%
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MULTIPLE CHOICE,ASSURED EXCELLENCE
Instructions: You must answer ALL three (3) questions. EACH
question must be approximately 300 words. 1. In what sense
can the practice and teaching of philosophy in South Africa be
understood as colonial? 2. How and why were western
philosophy and education introduced into South Africa? 3. In
what ways can we speak about a “whiteness” of philosophy in
South Africa?
1. In what sense can the practice and teaching of philosophy in
South Africa be understood as colonial?
The practice and teaching of philosophy in South Africa can be
considered colonial in several ways, primarily because it
historically privileged European philosophical traditions while
marginalizing indigenous African thought systems. Colonialism
in South Africa imposed Western epistemologies, largely
dismissing local knowledge systems as primitive or unscientific.
The establishment of formal education during colonial rule
entrenched this intellectual hierarchy, where philosophy
departments in universities prioritized European philosophers
like Plato, Descartes, and Kant, while African philosophical
traditions remained underrepresented.
Semester 1 2025 - DUE March 2025; 100%
TRUSTED Complete, trusted solutions and
explanations.
MULTIPLE CHOICE,ASSURED EXCELLENCE
Instructions: You must answer ALL three (3) questions. EACH
question must be approximately 300 words. 1. In what sense
can the practice and teaching of philosophy in South Africa be
understood as colonial? 2. How and why were western
philosophy and education introduced into South Africa? 3. In
what ways can we speak about a “whiteness” of philosophy in
South Africa?
1. In what sense can the practice and teaching of philosophy in
South Africa be understood as colonial?
The practice and teaching of philosophy in South Africa can be
considered colonial in several ways, primarily because it
historically privileged European philosophical traditions while
marginalizing indigenous African thought systems. Colonialism
in South Africa imposed Western epistemologies, largely
dismissing local knowledge systems as primitive or unscientific.
The establishment of formal education during colonial rule
entrenched this intellectual hierarchy, where philosophy
departments in universities prioritized European philosophers
like Plato, Descartes, and Kant, while African philosophical
traditions remained underrepresented.
