Sentence examples for indigenous thought from inspiring English sources

Specifically, there was also endorsement that maintaining a small, localised focus was appropriate; 'at the very basis of Indigenous thought is the understanding that Indigenous knowledge are place-based knowledge, best understood in the richness of context, through the use of Indigenous languages, and conceptualised holistically' (Duarte and Belarde-Lewis 2015, p. 693).

Oruka's concern with the preservation of indigenous thought suggests that he desired to keep the professional school of philosophers separate from that of the philosophic sages to ensure the preservation of the intellectual integrity, not only of the sages, but of the African heritage as a whole.

Oruka's desire to distinguish Sage philosophy from ethnophilosophy was also in response to another false view, partly created by ethnophilosophy, that indigenous African thought is anonymous.

1965), one of the outstanding texts of indigenous African thought.

All three forms of Chinese Buddhism developed in interaction with indigenous Chinese thought, especially Daoism.

With this in mind, Oruka's project aimed to counter two types of false perception of indigenous African thought.

The third negative claim Oruka aimed to challenge pertains to the philosophical status of indigenous African thought.

Oruka was concerned that African intellectuals were drawn into this false assumption regarding the intellectual inclination of African people, maintaining the belief that critique is absent from indigenous African thought.

Nonetheless, Oruka maintained that any such use of Western philosophical language to analyze indigenous African thought leads to the separation "between an insider in traditional African philosophy and the outsider analyzing or describing this philosophy in a language of Western thought.

Why would this matter to Australians who otherwise might continue to enjoy the good fortune of living in one of the world's most prosperous, free, safe and stable countries without giving us – Indigenous people – another thought?

The Taliban and most other Pakistani groups belong to the indigenous Deobandi school of thought.