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    The modern imposition of continental identity onto ancien... — Carmelics
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    The modern imposition of continental identity onto ancient civilizations is a widely accepted and often unremarked practice.

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    • 1.Studies of Asian philosophy routinely apply the category 'Asian' to ancient civilizations that predate that concept.
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    • 2.Western philosophy is commonly assumed to have organic coherence from ancient Greece through modern Germany.
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    • 3.These impositions of continental identity proceed typically without critical comment.
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    • 1.Historiographers of philosophy like Garfield and Van Norden have explicitly critiqued the category 'Asian philosophy' as an artificial Western grouping.
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    • 2.The existence of published critiques of these continental impositions demonstrates the practice is neither unremarked nor unchallenged in serious scholarship.
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    • 3.A practice that has generated substantial critical literature cannot coherently be described as 'widely unremarked.'
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    • 1.Classicists and ancient historians routinely distinguish between Greek, Roman, and Hellenistic identities rather than collapsing them into a monolithic 'Western' category.
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    • 2.The premise that Western philosophy is 'commonly assumed' to have organic coherence misrepresents a field where periodization disputes are foundational methodological debates.
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    Precisely locating the start of this early period once more raises potentially knotty metaphysical and empirical puzzles. Before the idea of Africa as a unitary entity gained sufficient traction (precisely when this happened is the empirical puzzle), nothing interestingly identifiable as African or Africana philosophy existed. There was a great deal of philosophizing in the place that would come to be called Africa, and there may be reasons to link those early activities to the self-consciously
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