AN EVALUATION OF KWASI WIREDU’S EMPIRICAL THOUGHT

Abstract

Philosophy has concerned itself consistently with the universe and the place of man in it as well as attempting to give interpretation and meaning to life. An attempt will be made to evaluate this conceptual scheme alongside other new perspectives of African traditional thought. With the critical analysis method, this work evaluates Wiredu's philosophical thesis of knowledge acquisition and existence with the aim of launching a criticism on his empirical position on existence and knowledge as well as point out that reality is more than our perception. It concludes that Wiredu's thesis only subjectivizes knowledge and argues that such gives no guarantee for better understanding of knowledge claim in the scope of epistemology