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Decolonising philosophy curriculum toolkit
https://www.soas.ac.uk/decolonising-phil...um-toolkit
EXCERPTS: The Decolonising Philosophy Toolkit (DPT) is a concise guide to decolonising philosophy curricula. [...] The purpose of this decolonial toolkit is to embrace marginalised thought -- certainly to not just challenge the hegemony of western philosophy, but also to enable rich and transformative conversations between intellectual systems... (MORE - details)
The Diagnostician of Despair: Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-diagn...f-despair/
EXCERPT: This year marks the 275th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s revelation, a conversion experience no less epochal than the illumination that jolted Paul on his way to Damascus. Rousseau spent the rest of his life expressing in a stunning variety of genres—discourses and essays, novels and autobiographies—these great truths that, though we can debate their veracity, have changed not just how we view the world, our place in it, and how we relate to one another, but also how we have come to see our very own selves. And what we see is as provocative today as it was in the 18th century...
[...] As Rousseau would have it, the ascent of humankind, in reality, amounts to little more than a collective descent into deceit. Whereas natural man lived within himself, Rousseau writes, “sociable man, always outside himself, knows how to live only in the opinion of others.” With the insatiable desire for approval came the insidious practice of pretense; what we once were gave way to how we now appeared; our dependence upon others rendered us unable to be ourselves. Rousseau’s modern man, in Alan Bloom’s wonderful phrase, “is the person who, when dealing with others, thinks only of himself, and on the other hand, in his understanding of himself, thinks only of others.” (MORE - details)
https://www.soas.ac.uk/decolonising-phil...um-toolkit
EXCERPTS: The Decolonising Philosophy Toolkit (DPT) is a concise guide to decolonising philosophy curricula. [...] The purpose of this decolonial toolkit is to embrace marginalised thought -- certainly to not just challenge the hegemony of western philosophy, but also to enable rich and transformative conversations between intellectual systems... (MORE - details)
The Diagnostician of Despair: Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-diagn...f-despair/
EXCERPT: This year marks the 275th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s revelation, a conversion experience no less epochal than the illumination that jolted Paul on his way to Damascus. Rousseau spent the rest of his life expressing in a stunning variety of genres—discourses and essays, novels and autobiographies—these great truths that, though we can debate their veracity, have changed not just how we view the world, our place in it, and how we relate to one another, but also how we have come to see our very own selves. And what we see is as provocative today as it was in the 18th century...
[...] As Rousseau would have it, the ascent of humankind, in reality, amounts to little more than a collective descent into deceit. Whereas natural man lived within himself, Rousseau writes, “sociable man, always outside himself, knows how to live only in the opinion of others.” With the insatiable desire for approval came the insidious practice of pretense; what we once were gave way to how we now appeared; our dependence upon others rendered us unable to be ourselves. Rousseau’s modern man, in Alan Bloom’s wonderful phrase, “is the person who, when dealing with others, thinks only of himself, and on the other hand, in his understanding of himself, thinks only of others.” (MORE - details)
