SOAS University of London, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the study of Asia and Africa, has proposed to "decolonise" the philosophy curriculum in schools and universities

SOAS University of London, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the study of Asia and Africa, has proposed to "decolonise" the philosophy curriculum in schools and universities.
In place of the ancient and classical philosophy of Aristotle, Socrates, Kant and Russell, whom it has dubbed "armchair scholars", students are to be taught the philosophy of contemporary Asian and African thinkers, among them an Indian-American feminist, a Nigerian "theorist of the gender question" and a Japanese expert on Zen Buddhism. And to think it used to be a respectable university

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SOAS University of London, one of the world's leading institutions devoted to the study of Asia and Africa, has proposed to "decolonise" the philosophy curriculum in schools and universities

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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