Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Citation Information -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding? The dilemma of Western philosophy -- References -- 1. The Humanist Bias in Western Philosophy and Education -- Abstract -- Notes -- References -- 2. Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy -- Abstract -- Note -- References -- 3. Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American philosophy as a gift and the countering of the western philosophical metanarrative -- Abstract -- Notes -- References -- 4. How Can We Overcome the Dichotomy that Western Culture has Created Between the Concepts of Independence and Dependence? -- Abstract -- A Constant Dialectic Between Dependence and Independence -- Between Independence and Dependence-The Divine Sanctuary within Man -- The Nature of Education: The Quest for Autonomy and Affinity -- References -- 5. Rethinking the 'Western Tradition' -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Of 'Blind Spots' and 'Blank Spots' -- How the West was Never 'One': The Responses -- Conclusion: Beyond 'Western Thought' -- Notes -- References -- 6. How the West Was One: The Western as individualist, the African as communitarian -- Abstract -- Introduction: Approaching 'the West' -- How to Construe Geographical Labels -- Western and African Philosophy of Education Compared -- How to Question Individualism -- Notes -- References -- 7. Human Freedom and the Philosophical Attitude -- Abstract -- 1. Two Understandings of the Discipline of Philosophy -- 2. Transcendental Philosophy as an Exercise in Freedom and Discipline -- Funding -- Notes -- References -- 8. Doubt, Despair and Hope in Western Thought: Unamuno and the promise of education -- Abstract -- Doubt in Western Philosophy