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Adeshina Afolayan
May 25, 2023, 8:00:59 AM5/25/23
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UI Department of Philosophy Seminar Series (UI-DPSS)
Idowu Odeyemi
(University of Colorado, Boulder)
"African Communitarianism and an Externalist Justification of Altruism"
Thursday, 25th May 2023
2:00 - 4:00
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju
May 25, 2023, 3:14:58 PM5/25/23
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Beautiful experience, demonstrating academic scholarship at its best as convivial, fraternal and critical.
The question and answer session was particularly scintillating, as the speaker's presentation was analysed from various angles, its strengths as well as its zones needing further empowering, as understood by the responders, carefully examined.
Below are screenshots from the experience-
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The question and answer session was particularly scintillating, as the speaker's presentation was analysed from various angles, its strengths as well as its zones needing further empowering, as understood by the responders, carefully examined.
Below are screenshots from the experience-
Presenter and screen
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This speaker is questioning the ultimate value of using Western theorists (perhaps addressing non-Western contexts ) as the primary interlocutors in studying African thought and social systems, as he says the presenter has done, while a significant scope of scholars exists focusing on African thought and societies exists.
He also suggested the need for more precise contextualisation of the project, in relation to particular societies and the varying relationship between the communitarian and the individualistic, at various times, in those contexts.
He also suggested the need for more precise contextualisation of the project, in relation to particular societies and the varying relationship between the communitarian and the individualistic, at various times, in those contexts.
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Adeshina Afolayan making a similar point about contextualisation and balance by referencing Nimi Wariboko on the validity of his valuing his mother above everyone else even in the context of an African community in relation to which communitarian values are readily ascribed by scholars.
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''These communitaristic African communities, to what degree do they still exist?'', as this respondents rejoinder may be stated.
''Are such communal cultures uniquely African, or globally universal across agrarian, pre-industrial societies requiring such bonding in the name of mutual survival in a culture in which aids to individualistic well being were very limited?'' as his argument may be summed up
''What are the implications, for contemporary philosophical study, of the reconfiguration of such societies and their values by change emerging from greater technological sophistication and other agents of change?'' his response suggests.
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''What are the implications, for contemporary philosophical study, of the reconfiguration of such societies and their values by change emerging from greater technological sophistication and other agents of change?'' his response suggests.
Another respondent, but one whose interesting response I did not grasp clearly enough to try to reproduce
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Moderator, foreground, closes the seminar as presenter tidies his materials
Summative Response
A memorable demonstration of the essence of academic culture as a mutually supporting quest for knowledge amongst lovers of knowledge, in which careful listening and courteous interlocution, within critical sensitivity, are central.
These qualities are not necessarily native to humanity, since the urge to impress one's views on others, to emphasize one's higher social position, as with a professor in relation to a graduate student, for example, could motivate one.
This seminar exemplifies environments where such urges have been transcended, in the name of the challenging task of thinking things through, as Anthony Appiah describes the task of philosophy in his book of that title.
What is the significance of such genteel activities, and of such painstaking analyses of styles of human behaviour which are not as potent as they once were in the societies being studied?
Courteous, mutually sensitive dialogue, exemplified here, brings out the best in human society.
Can any society survive without a significant degree of communitarianism, in which the common good is understood as the good of the individual?
thanks
Summative Response
A memorable demonstration of the essence of academic culture as a mutually supporting quest for knowledge amongst lovers of knowledge, in which careful listening and courteous interlocution, within critical sensitivity, are central.
These qualities are not necessarily native to humanity, since the urge to impress one's views on others, to emphasize one's higher social position, as with a professor in relation to a graduate student, for example, could motivate one.
This seminar exemplifies environments where such urges have been transcended, in the name of the challenging task of thinking things through, as Anthony Appiah describes the task of philosophy in his book of that title.
What is the significance of such genteel activities, and of such painstaking analyses of styles of human behaviour which are not as potent as they once were in the societies being studied?
Courteous, mutually sensitive dialogue, exemplified here, brings out the best in human society.
Can any society survive without a significant degree of communitarianism, in which the common good is understood as the good of the individual?
thanks
toyin
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Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth
May 25, 2023, 4:09:51 PM5/25/23
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Toyin thanks for summarising .maybe I would have been able to cope if I attended. Augustine
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju
May 25, 2023, 7:39:27 PM5/25/23
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Great thanks Augustine
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:09 PM 'Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Toyin thanks for summarising .maybe I would have been able to cope if I attended. Augustine
On Thursday, May 25, 2023, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--UI Department of Philosophy Seminar Series (UI-DPSS)Idowu Odeyemi(University of Colorado, Boulder)"African Communitarianism and an Externalist Justification of Altruism"Thursday, 25th May 20232:00 - 4:00
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Dr. Bukola Adesina
May 26, 2023, 3:22:44 AM5/26/23
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Wow. Thank you for the summary of the interesting seminar.
Olubukola Adesina
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju
May 26, 2023, 7:33:11 AM5/26/23
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great thanks Adesina
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Adeshina Afolayan
May 26, 2023, 7:34:37 AM5/26/23
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Ọ̀gá Toyin,
You did a beautiful work reviewing the seminar.
The Department is very grateful!
Adeshina
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