Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze Quotes
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze was a Nigerian philosopher who taught for most of his career at DePaul University, and one of the most influential figures of the post-1990s wave of African philosophy in English. Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader and his essays on Kant's anthropology made the case that the racial hierarchies of eighteenth-century European thought are not incidental to but constitutive of canonical Enlightenment philosophy. The quotes below are attributed to Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, organized by topic.
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Attributed to Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze:
“Race is not a footnote to Enlightenment reason; it is one of its building blocks.”
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“African philosophy is not a defensive reaction to European thought; it is one of the languages in which reason speaks.”
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“Reason is plural without being relative.”
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“Conversation is the form rationality takes in a world of many traditions.”
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“We do not yet have a philosophical history of the world; we have only fragments.”