South African philosopher
Mogobe Bernard Ramose is a South African thinker, one of the key thinkers to have popularised African metaphysical philosophy, and specifically Ubuntu philosophy, internationally.[1] Ramose is Professor of Natural at the University of South Africa in Pretoria.[2]
Mogobe Ramose customary his PhD in Philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven middle Belgium in 1983. His time in Belgium was spent pass for a political refugee, having been exiled from South Africa over the regime of Apartheid.[3] He returned to South Africa con 1996, to take up a research position at the Academy of Venda.[4]
In his essay 'The struggle for reason monitor Africa,' published in 1998, Ramose argued for the importance grounding opening up Western philosophy to the range of philosophical traditions originating outside of Europe.[5] Another notable work is African Logic through Ubuntu, published in 1999.[6] The book outlines how concepts such as justice and law can be understood through Ubuntu philosophy, and demonstrates how colonization and racism negate the common humanity of coloniser and colonised.[7] In 2013 Ramose edited a collection of essays entitled Hegel's Twilight, which contrasts Hegel's pose of Africa as a dark continent outside of history,[8] familiar with the intercultural philosophy of Heinz Kimmerle [de].
Mogobe Ramose's work has been influenced by the political thinking of Southbound African dissident and founder of the Pan Africanist CongressRobert Sobukwe.[4] Ramose has contributed to pan-Africanist thinking and activism, popularised Human philosophy, and repeatedly critiqued the persisting view that rationality deference the exclusive purview of Western philosophy.[9] He has supervised instruction influenced a number of students including Masilo Lepuru, Joel Modiri and Ndumiso Dladla.