INVITATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR SERIES--MAY 2024 EDITION
Jonathan Okeke
hermeneutics and conversational philosophy
Date: Friday, 24 May 2024
Time: 14:00 PM SAST; 1:00PM West African Time
Zoom registration link:
Speaker: Jaco Louw, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Abstract
At the heart of philosophical counselling, an emerging field of practical philosophy, is a modest claim, that the lay public can benefit from all that philosophy has to offer. If accepted, this claim suggests that different philosophical traditions should be incorporated into the philosophical counselling discourse. Even though various philosophical traditions have slowly been incorporated, there are sparse mentions of African philosophy in the philosophical counselling literature. However, Ubuntu philosophy has recently garnered some attention. Nonetheless, in this talk I address this dearth of African philosophical input through the introduction of two alternative notions of African philosophy, namely, African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy. These two schools of thought provide valuable and enriching insights to the philosophical counselling discourse. Through this introduction, I aim to transform two key mechanisms as found in the philosophical counselling literature. These mechanisms, that of a hermeneutical happening and collaborative philosophising, invaluable as they are to our understanding of philosophical counselling, lack a certain contextual nuance and situated sensitivity. Consequently, a problematic value-neutrality is continually reproduced; the philosophical counsellor then emerges as an “unprejudiced and value neutral educator”. With the help of African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy, I aim to positively transform these mechanisms. This transformation involves taking seriously the situated and contextual response, emerging from and responding to, in this case, an African lifeworld. Resultant is an interpretive actualisation through a collaborative undertaking rooted in the very conditions of the philosophical conversation.
The UP Philosophy Seminar series offers researchers the platform to present their original ideas and theories to ignite academic debates. To present your own research, please write to us attaching a short abstract of 200 words max that speaks to any aspect of your research that reflects thinking as a deep, critical, creative and, more importantly, imaginative endeavour. Enquiries: JO Chimakonam, jonatha...@up.ac.za
Jonathan O Chimakonam
Department of Philosophy
University of Pretoria
My latest books:
1. African Ethics: A Guide to Key Ideas (2022) https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/african-ethics-9781350191785/
2. Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy (2022)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-70436-0
3. African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic: A Decolonial Approach to Philosophy (2021)
Available at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72445-0
or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/African-Metaphysics-Epistemology-New-Logic/dp/3030724441
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Jonathan Okeke
hermeneutics and conversational philosophy
Date: Friday, 24 May 2024
Time: 14:00 PM SAST; 1:00PM West African Time
Zoom registration link:
Speaker: Jaco Louw, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Abstract
At the heart of philosophical counselling, an emerging field of practical philosophy, is a modest claim, that the lay public can benefit from all that philosophy has to offer. If accepted, this claim suggests that different philosophical traditions should be incorporated into the philosophical counselling discourse. Even though various philosophical traditions have slowly been incorporated, there are sparse mentions of African philosophy in the philosophical counselling literature. However, Ubuntu philosophy has recently garnered some attention. Nonetheless, in this talk I address this dearth of African philosophical input through the introduction of two alternative notions of African philosophy, namely, African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy. These two schools of thought provide valuable and enriching insights to the philosophical counselling discourse. Through this introduction, I aim to transform two key mechanisms as found in the philosophical counselling literature. These mechanisms, that of a hermeneutical happening and collaborative philosophising, invaluable as they are to our understanding of philosophical counselling, lack a certain contextual nuance and situated sensitivity. Consequently, a problematic value-neutrality is continually reproduced; the philosophical counsellor then emerges as an “unprejudiced and value neutral educator”. With the help of African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy, I aim to positively transform these mechanisms. This transformation involves taking seriously the situated and contextual response, emerging from and responding to, in this case, an African lifeworld. Resultant is an interpretive actualisation through a collaborative undertaking rooted in the very conditions of the philosophical conversation.
The UP Philosophy Seminar series offers researchers the platform to present their original ideas and theories to ignite academic debates. To present your own research, please write to us attaching a short abstract of 200 words max that speaks to any aspect of your research that reflects thinking as a deep, critical, creative and, more importantly, imaginative endeavour. Enquiries: JO Chimakonam, jonatha...@up.ac.za
Jonathan Okeke
hermeneutics and conversational philosophy
Date: Friday, 24 May 2024
Time: 14:00 PM SAST; 1:00PM West African Time
Zoom registration link:
Speaker: Jaco Louw, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Abstract
At the heart of philosophical counselling, an emerging field of practical philosophy, is a modest claim, that the lay public can benefit from all that philosophy has to offer. If accepted, this claim suggests that different philosophical traditions should be incorporated into the philosophical counselling discourse. Even though various philosophical traditions have slowly been incorporated, there are sparse mentions of African philosophy in the philosophical counselling literature. However, Ubuntu philosophy has recently garnered some attention. Nonetheless, in this talk I address this dearth of African philosophical input through the introduction of two alternative notions of African philosophy, namely, African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy. These two schools of thought provide valuable and enriching insights to the philosophical counselling discourse. Through this introduction, I aim to transform two key mechanisms as found in the philosophical counselling literature. These mechanisms, that of a hermeneutical happening and collaborative philosophising, invaluable as they are to our understanding of philosophical counselling, lack a certain contextual nuance and situated sensitivity. Consequently, a problematic value-neutrality is continually reproduced; the philosophical counsellor then emerges as an “unprejudiced and value neutral educator”. With the help of African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy, I aim to positively transform these mechanisms. This transformation involves taking seriously the situated and contextual response, emerging from and responding to, in this case, an African lifeworld. Resultant is an interpretive actualisation through a collaborative undertaking rooted in the very conditions of the philosophical conversation.
The UP Philosophy Seminar series offers researchers the platform to present their original ideas and theories to ignite academic debates. To present your own research, please write to us attaching a short abstract of 200 words max that speaks to any aspect of your research that reflects thinking as a deep, critical, creative and, more importantly, imaginative endeavour. Enquiries: JO Chimakonam, jonatha...@up.ac.za
Prof Jonathan O Chimakonam
Jonathan Okeke
hermeneutics and conversational philosophy
Date: Friday, 24 May 2024
Time: 14:00 PM SAST; 1:00PM West African Time
Zoom registration link:
Speaker: Jaco Louw, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Abstract
At the heart of philosophical counselling, an emerging field of practical philosophy, is a modest claim, that the lay public can benefit from all that philosophy has to offer. If accepted, this claim suggests that different philosophical traditions should be incorporated into the philosophical counselling discourse. Even though various philosophical traditions have slowly been incorporated, there are sparse mentions of African philosophy in the philosophical counselling literature. However, Ubuntu philosophy has recently garnered some attention. Nonetheless, in this talk I address this dearth of African philosophical input through the introduction of two alternative notions of African philosophy, namely, African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy. These two schools of thought provide valuable and enriching insights to the philosophical counselling discourse. Through this introduction, I aim to transform two key mechanisms as found in the philosophical counselling literature. These mechanisms, that of a hermeneutical happening and collaborative philosophising, invaluable as they are to our understanding of philosophical counselling, lack a certain contextual nuance and situated sensitivity. Consequently, a problematic value-neutrality is continually reproduced; the philosophical counsellor then emerges as an “unprejudiced and value neutral educator”. With the help of African hermeneutics and conversational philosophy, I aim to positively transform these mechanisms. This transformation involves taking seriously the situated and contextual response, emerging from and responding to, in this case, an African lifeworld. Resultant is an interpretive actualisation through a collaborative undertaking rooted in the very conditions of the philosophical conversation.
The UP Philosophy Seminar series offers researchers the platform to present their original ideas and theories to ignite academic debates. To present your own research, please write to us attaching a short abstract of 200 words max that speaks to any aspect of your research that reflects thinking as a deep, critical, creative and, more importantly, imaginative endeavour. Enquiries: JO Chimakonam, jonatha...@up.ac.za