The dilemma of western philosophy

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Introduction: Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding? The dilemma of Western philosophy Carl Mika and Michael Peters 1. The Humanist Bias in Western Philosophy and Education Michael A. Peters 2. Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy Carl Mika 3. Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American philosophy as a gift and the countering of the western philosophical metanarrative George Yancy 4. How Can We Overcome the Dichotomy that Western Culture has Created Between the Concepts of Independence and Dependence? Zehavit Gross5. Rethinking the 'Western Tradition' Penny Enslin and Kai Horsthemke6. How the West Was One: The Western as individualist, the African as communitarian Thaddeus Metz7. Human Freedom and the Philosophical Attitude Sharon Rider 8. Doubt, Despair and Hope in Western Thought: Unamuno and the promise of education Peter Roberts 9. The Offerings of Fringe Figures and Migrants A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul 10. Actual Minds of Two Halves: Measurement, Metaphor and the Message Georgina Stewart11. On the (Im)potentiality of an African Philosophy of Education to Disrupt Inhumanity Yusef Waghid