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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

Postcolonial Thought

Short Answer



1

What are some of the characteristic features of post-colonial philosophy and thought?
2

How did British colonialism differ from Iberian colonialism?
3

What is ethnophilosophy, and why do Pan-African thinkers such as Paulin Hountondji criticize it?
4

How do post-colonial views about the good life differ in emphasis from western views?
5

Why was European colonialism so much more disruptive to native-Americans than their earlier experiences with native-American empire building?
6

Distinguish traditional feminism from the African-American feminism of bell hooks from the Latin-American feminism of Sonia Saldivar-Hull.
7

What is the connection between historiography, Afrocentrism, and Pan-African philosophy?
8

How did Francisco Miro Quesada and Karl Marx disagree about ideology?
9

What distinguishes South Asian experiences with European colonialism from African or American experiences?
10

In what ways was Mohandas Gandhi a traditionalist and in what ways was he a modernist?