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Decolonizing philosophy

Decolonizing philosophy means recognizing that Western thought was constructed as universal precisely by erasing its particularity and positioning non-Western traditions as local or primitive, and recovering suppressed intellectual traditions on their own terms rather than through Western frameworks. This isn't about relativism but about intellectual honesty: expanding what counts as rigorous thought and revealing how power shaped which ideas survived.

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