(THE COLLEGE FIX) — The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) student union at the University of London is demanding that philosophers Plato, Descartes, and Kant should be — mostly — supplanted by those from Asia and Africa.
According to The Independent, part of the union’s new year priorities is to “address the structural and epistemological legacy of colonialism within our university.”
“If white philosophers were required,” one of the union’s goals reads, “their work should be taught from a ‘critical standpoint’, to acknowledge the colonial context in which many of their works were written.”
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