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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Kwasi Wiredu (born 1931) is one of the foremost African philosophers working today. Wiredu was born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1931, and attended Adisadel Secondary School from 1948 to 1952. It was during this period that he discovered philosophy, through Plato (which weaned him from his interest in Practical Psychology) and Bertrand Russell, and he gained a place at the University of Ghana, Legon. After graduating in 1958, he went to University College, Oxford to read for the B.Phil.. At Oxford Wiredu was taught by Gilbert Ryle (his thesis supervisor), Peter Strawson (his College tutor), and Stuart Hampshire (his special tutor), and wrote a thesis on 'Knowledge, Truth, and Reason'. Upon graduating in 1960 he was appointed to a teaching post at the University College of North Staffordshire (now the University of Keele), where he stayed for a year. He then returned to Ghana, where he accepted a post teaching philosophy for his old university. He remained at the University of Ghana for twenty-three years, during which time he became first Head of Department and then Professor. He now holds a professorship at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He has held a number of visiting professorships: He was a member of the Committee of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies from 1983 to 1998. He has also been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1985) and the National Humanities Center, North Carolina (1986). He is Vice-President of the Inter-African Council for Philosophy, and has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida since 1987. Wiredu opposes the ethnophilosophical and philosophical sagacity approaches to African philosophy, arguing that all cultures have their distinctive folk-beliefs and world-views, but that these must be distinguished from the practice of philosophizing. It's not that 'folk philosophy' can...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more