Lewis Gordon Quotes on Freedom
Lewis Gordon is a Jamaican-American philosopher, professor at the University of Connecticut, and one of the most important figures in contemporary Africana philosophy, black existentialism, and phenomenology. This page collects quotes attributed to Lewis Gordon on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Lewis Gordon:
“Bad faith is the flight from one's freedom and from one's responsibility for others.”
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Attributed to Lewis Gordon:
“To philosophize from below is to philosophize from where the world denies one is allowed to begin.”
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Attributed to Lewis Gordon:
“Africana philosophy is a philosophy of liberation born in the work of being human under conditions designed against it.”
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Attributed to Lewis Gordon:
“Reason is not white; reason is the property of every being who claims it.”