Alex Guerrero

Day

Topic

Reading

2/17

Introductions and a bit of metaphilosophy

▪Susana Nuccetelli, “Latin American Philosophy,” in A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, pp. 343-355

Part I – African Philosophy

3/3

Ancient Egypt 

•Instructions of Ptah-hotep

other reading:

▪Barry Hallen, A Short History of African Philosophy, “The Historical Perspective,” pp. 3-12

•Bill Manley, Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners, pp. 10-31

3/17

Early Modern African Philosophy: Zera Yacob and Anton Wilhelm Amo

•Zera Yacob, Treatise of Zera Yacob 

•Dwight Lewis, “Anton Wilhelm Amo: Introduction & English Translation”

other reading: 

•Claude Sumner, The Significance of Zera Yacob's Philosophy

•Teodros Kiros, "Zera Yacob and Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy," in Blackwell Companion to African Philosophy, pp. 183-185

•Dwight Lewis, “Anton Wilhelm Amo: The African Philosopher in 18th Europe,” APA Blog Post

•Dag Herbjørnsrud, "The African Enlightenment," Aeon

•Chris Meyns, “Anton Wilhelm Amo’s Philosophy of Mind,” Philosophy Compass (2019)

3/31

Anthropology, Language, and “Ethnophilosophy”

•Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli, pp. 1-34, 123-129 

•Paulin Hountondji, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality, pp. 47-54

•J. Olubi Sodipo and Barry Hallen, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft 

--pp. 1-14, 127-141 and  --pp. 40-41, 45-81

other reading:

•Placide Tempels, Bantu Philosophy, Chapters 1 and 2 

•DA Masolo, African Sage Philosophy, SEP

•Didier Njirayamanda Kaphagawani, “African Conceptions of a Person: A Critical Survey,” in A Companion to African Philosophy, pp. 332-342

4/14

Independence, Colonialism, and African Political Philosophy

•Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu, Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture, pp.  1-21, 209-229, 233-239 

▪Julius Nyerere, “Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism”

Part II – Latin American Philosophy

4/28

and

5/12

Latin American and Native American, Aztec/Nahua Philosophy

▪Video: The Five Suns: A Sacred History of Mexico

▪James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion, pp. 1-41, 42-73

▪L. Sebastian Purcell, “Eudaimonia and Neltiliztli: Aristotle and the Aztecs on the Good Life”

▪James Maffie, "Weaving the Good Life in a Living World: Reciprocity, Balance and Nepantla in Aztec Ethics," Science, Religion, and Culture Vol. 5, Special Issue 1 (2018)

▪James Maffie, "The Nature of Mexica Ethics"

▪James Maffie, "In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Nahua and European Philosophies in Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina cristiana,"  Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 3(1) (2012)

▪James Maffie, "The Role of Hardship in Mexica Ethics..." (2019) starts at p. 8 of APA Newsletter on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy

Other reading: 

▪James Maffie, “Pre-Columbian Philosophies,” in A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, pp. 9-21

▪Jongsoo Lee, "The Europeanization of Prehispanic tradition: Bernardino de Sahagún’s transformation of Aztec priests (tlamacazque) into classical wise men (tlamatinime)," Colonial Latin American Review, 26:3, (2017): pp. 291-312

▪Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun, Introduction, Terminology/Pronounciation/Glossary, The City on a Lake, How to Study Aztec/Nahua

▪Aztec hieroglyphic writing, report on new work by Gordon Whittaker (April 7, 2021)

▪Sahagun, Florentine Codex, Book 6 (in Spanish); also can look for Dibble/Anderson translation through university library

5/26

▪Simón Bolívar, “Jamaica Letter,” in Latin American Philosophy for the 21^st Century, pp. 63-66

▪José Martí, “Our America,” in Selected Writings, pp. 288-296

▪Sergio Gallegos, "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz on self‐control," Philosophy Compass 2020

▪Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, "La Respuesta/The Answer"

other reading:

▪Jorge J.E. Gracia and Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert, “Defining Latin America: National versus Continental Approaches,” in Latin American Philosophy for the 21^st Century, pp. 219-229

6/9

Latin American and National Identities

▪Emilio Uranga, Analysis of Mexican Being (excerpts)

▪Jorge Portilla, Phenomenology of Relajo (excerpts)

▪Leopoldo Zea, Philosophy as Commitment (excerpts)

Other reading: 

▪Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Contingency and Commitment: Mexican Existentialism and the Place of Philosophy, pp. 1-5, 15-42, 65-92

▪Carlos Alberto Sánchez, The Suspension of Seriousness: On the Phenomenology of Jorge Portilla

6/23

Latinx Identities

▪Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Chapters 1-3, Chapters 5-7

▪María Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Traveling, and Loving Perception”

other reading: 

▪Mariana Ortega, In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self, pp. 17-46

▪Stephanie Rivera Berruz, "Latin American and Latinx Feminisms," in Latin American and Latinx Philosophy (2020, ed. Robert Eli Sanchez) 

▪Andrea J. Pitts, "Latinx Identity," in Latin American and Latinx Philosophy (2020, ed. Robert Eli Sanchez)

Part III – Native American Philosophy

7/7

Native America and Indigenous Philosophy

▪Wub-e-ke-niew, We Have the Right To Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought 1, 2, 3

▪Alex Guerrero, "Ethics in Place and Time: Introducing Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought," in Neglected Classics Volume 2 (ed. by Eric Schliesser, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021)

other reading: 

▪Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, pp. 1-31

7/21

Native Epistemology and “Eco-Philosophy”

▪Brian Yazzie Burkhart, “What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us: An Outline of American Indian Epistemology,” in American Indian Thought, pp. 15-26

▪Gregory Cajete, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, pp. 57-83

Other Reading: 

▪Kyle Whyte, “Critical Investigations of Resilience: A Brief Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences”

▪Linda Tuhiwai Smith, “Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects” in Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, pp. 143-164

8/4

Native American Ethics and Conceptions of Justice

▪Dennis McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb, “Values, Land, and the Integrity of the Person: Cross-Cultural Considerations,” in Indian from the Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal, pp. 83-139

▪Brian Burkhart, Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land, Introduction, Chapter 6

▪Robert Yazzie, “Life Comes from It: Navajo Justice Concepts,” in Navajo Nation Peacemaking: Living Traditional Justice, pp. 42-58