THE IDEA OF UNINTENDED ETHNOCENTRIC COMMITMENT AND SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVITY

Abstract

This piece has studied how ethnophilosophy has impeded on scientific inquiry objectivity, it is pertinent to note that as understandable as our primitive passion for selfpreservation instigates us to be exclusivist and to seek those things that make us special, we think that the legitimacy of any work that seeks to be philosophical and rational is rooted in its capacity to be articulated within the frame work of the whole. This work has been able to point out why, on account of unintended ethnocentric commitment some scholars saw African Philosophy mostly from the optics of “African thinking”; also we have pinpoints that doing philosophy with ethnocentric mindset merely succeeds. In reducing it to mere rhetoric, knowledge to myths, science to ideology and gossip. It is on this note that we hold in the same scholarly spirit with Asouzu that whenever we recourse to collective categorisations like, “African thought”, “European thought” in view of doing philosophy, they are not always to the best interest of scientific objectivity.