#black philosophers

[lvrsdrk]

As you would examine this love

I’m under the scrutiny of your microscope

I’ve only ever existed as myself in a creek of critique

And even as unique as I am, my mindset is antique

Too long have I been set in waiting to see you softly

Lofty in my ideals, sure, but I desire to see it…awfully

Love and Labs || eddiemustwrite

[lvrsdrk]

A second chance at life makes you thankful for the small things. I have a loving support system, a hot grill, and a full glass. That’s all I really need.

[wetwicksdry]

Philosophy

And philosophical belief systems have been on my mind lately. I’ve never read any of the ‘great’ or ‘classic’ philosophers... I’ve just used my intuition and somewhat strong intellect to get me through so far but do you have any in mind I could read? I’d like to be a well read lady now... also... black philosophers or any of colour would be awesome tooooo!

Like I know I wanna read ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ soon...

But give me moooore :)

Pls.

[universal-equivalent-blog]

On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher

The Experiment In 1707, a boy no more than five years old left Axim, on the African Gold Coast, for Amsterdam, aboard a ship belonging to the Dutch West India Company. In those days, the trip to Eu…

“We don’t know what the African boy’s status was: Had he been enslaved? Was he sent by missionaries for a Christian education? What we do know is that Anton Ulrich took a special interest in him, arranging for his education, and giving him, at his baptism, both his own Christian name and his son’s middle name: so the young man came to be known as Anton Wilhelm. The dukes had apparently taken the occasion of the gift of an African child to conduct one of those famous Enlightenment experiments, aiming to explore whether an African could absorb and contribute to modern scholarship. The ducal family might have been aware of a similar experiment, which began a few years earlier, when Tsar Peter the Great of Russia took an African slave as his godson, naming him Hannibal. He went on to be a successful Russian general, and was the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, the founder of modern Russian literature. (Pushkin began, but never finished, a novel called The Moor of Peter the Great.)

We’re not sure when Anton Wilhelm started using his Nzema name, Amo. At his confirmation, the church records in Wolfenbüttel call him Anton Wilhelm Rudolph Mohre; Mohr (Moor) being one of the ways Germans then referred to Africans. But in later life he often called himself Anton Wilhelm Amo Afer, using the word for African in Latin, which was the language of European scholarship. So he wanted to be known as Amo the African.”

[universal-equivalent-blog]

Lewis Gordon: short lecture on disposability, relationality, and violence.

[trphouztaylr]

Are there any other pro black tumblrs interested in philosophy?

I need a black philosophy squad - which is very hard to assemble irl.