Tragic Death of Greek Philosopphy

[Biko Agozino]

What became of Greek philosophy once the African source was destroyed? Marx wonders in the first sentence of his doctoral dissertation: "Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. The objective history of philosophy in Greece seems to come to an end with Aristotle, Greek philosophy's Alexander of Macedon, and even the manly-strong Stoics did not succeed in what the Spartans did accomplish in their temples, the chaining of Athena to Heracles so that she could not flee." Chapter 1: Doctoral Dissertation of Karl Marx — Chapter 1

Doctoral Dissertation of Karl Marx — Chapter 1 Karl Marx

Biko

[Biko Agozino]

 It goes to show that when a people are led to attack and destroy the educational institutions where their best thinkers were proud to claim as their Alma maters, the entire culture declines. Also, education is more valuable than militarism for we do not know any major contributors from Sparta but everyone knows about the Athenian  philosophers who were educated in Egypt. Finally, Marx wrote his dissertation as a Young Hegelian, not yet a Marxist, who was critical of Hegelian dialectics for privileging ideas over people and for falsely asserting that Africa made no contribution to history.

Biko