Taye Birhanu Taressa
Abstract : The notion of ethnophilosophy does not give a guarantee for “contradictions in a culture.” This argument gets its foundation from the belief that ethnophilosophy could either reconcile in a rational way those “contradictions in constants of culture” or convince the contenders that the internal incoherencies are only ill-conceived or do not actually exist. Though there might be contradictions in a culture as in any other totalities of human life, it would not jeopardize the rationale of ethnophilosophy. A though of a person is highly dependent on her/his own mother tongue, social, and natural environment, and cultural beliefs and practices of her/his ancestors. Hence, there would be no thought, without a thinking subject. There are both particulars and universals in every culture. But no culture is in apposition to determine what should be the particular and what should be the universal.
Keyword : Ethnophilosophy, Particular, Thought, Universal.