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Arola, Adam. Native American Philosophy
2011, in The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield (eds.), OUP.
Topics: Applied Ethics; Culture; Ethics and Socio-Politics of Philosophy; Normative Ethics; The Nature Value and Aims of Philosophy
Keywords: Exclusion; authenticity; colonialism; community; exchange; experience; relatedness; sovereignty; truth; wordlviews
Traditions: Critical; Cultural; North American
Languages: English

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This article introduces the central thinkers of contemporary American Indian philosophy by discussing concerns including the nature of experience, meaning, truth, the status of the individual and community, and finally issues concerning sovereignty. The impossibility of carving up the intellectual traditions of contemporary Native scholars in North America into neat and tidy disciplines must be kept in mind. The first hallmark of American Indian philosophy is the commitment to the belief that all things are related—and this belief is not simply an ontological claim, but rather an intellectual and ethical maxim.

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