Charles C Verharen
Biographic Data
| ID | 83962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles C Verharen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles C |
| FAMILY NAME | Verharen |
| SIGNATURE | VERHAREN C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1855-2279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Odd Coupling: Nietzsche and W.E.B. Du Bois on 21st Century Philosophy of Education
This essay contrasts Nietzsche’s remarks on elite education with W.E.B. Du Bois’ demand for democratized education. The essay takes their remarks as springboards for a twenty-first century philosophy of education rather than an historical account of their philosophies. Both thinkers cultivated Kant and Hegel’s dream that the spirit of freedom guided by reason would unite all the world’s peoples. Both held that education was key to realizing the d…
African Environmental Ethics: Keys to Sustainable Development Through Agroecological Villages
This essay proposes African-based ethical solutions to profound human problems and a working African model to address those problems. The model promotes sustainability through advanced agroecological and information communication technologies. The essay's first section reviews the ethical ground of that model in the work of the Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop. The essay's second section examines an applied African model for translating Afric…
Die Überkinder: Nietzsche and Greta Thunberg, children and philosophy
Does Nietzsche imagine that an Überkind could prepare the path for an Übermensch? Linking Nietzsche to Greta Thunberg through their mutual concern about life's future, this essay reviews Nietzsche's 1871 through 1888 research on preparing children for a task demanding nearly superhuman powers: guaranteeing life's future against human irrationality's assaults. Rather than offering a historical analysis, the essay views his remarks as promptings fo…
The future of ethics and education: Philosophy in a time of existential crises
Philosophy confronts two existential crises: the threats to its existence from scientists like Stephen Hawking who claim that philosophy is dead; and the threat to life itself from catastrophic climate change. The essay’s first theoretical part critiques Nietzsche’s claim that philosophy’s primary function is to guarantee the future of life. The essay’s second practical part claims that philosophy must meet the challenge of life’s extinction thro…
Nietzsche and Heidegger: PoPoMo philosophers avant la lettre
Nietzsche and Heidegger: PoPoMo philosophers avant la lettre." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1549–1550
Ancient Africa and the Structure of Revolutions in Ethics: A Prolegomenon for Contemporary African Political Philosophy
An African and American Survival Ethics: The Case of Cuba
Until recently the principal burden of ethics was to choose among the many possible directions we might take our lives. However, we now face an unprecedented crisis: the possibility of the extincti
Philosophy Against Empire: An Ancient Egyptian Renaissance
What should be the politics of Afrocentricity? How should Afrocentrists fight globalization's empire, the continuation of slavery by other means? This article grounds political resistance to empire in an ancient Egyptian philosophy of holism. The article's theme is that four powerful movements are converging on a new philosophy. Paradoxically, this “new” philosophy is prefigured in the oldest recorded philosophy, that of ancient Egypt. The four c…
Afrocentricity, ecocentrism, and ecofeminism: New alliances for socialism
Black to The future: A Philosophy for a Global Village
The aim of this article is to look for common ground in the philosophies advanced by Africans in the diaspora. The Africana response to racism establishes a tradition of resistance to oppression, grounded in a philosophy of freedom. What is the meaning of being Black in the world's future? What new philosophy emerges out of Africana experience? Challenging the orthodoxy of racist ideology, this article argues that Afrocentricity allows one to emb…
Philosophy's Roles in Afrocentric Education
Should philosophy be introduced as a formal subject to kindergarten through 12th grade students in Afrocentric schools? U.S. public education's aversion to philosophy is so pervasive that Afrocentric educators should consider whether they have assimilated this bias. This essay considers ancient Greek philosophy's possible roles in its construction. While challenging Plato and Aristotle's arguments against philosophizing before age 30, the essay e…
An Ethics of Intimacy: Race and Moral Obligation
The author criticizes efforts to resuscitate W. E. B. Du Bois’s claim that people of African descent have a special obligation to each other premised on race. He concludes that Africana philosophers such as Du Bois, Alain Locke, and Lucius Outlaw do not claim to possess essential knowledge of the human condition but instead propose a story human beings can tell about what they’re doing with their lives. Their story exerts imperative force only wh…
Environment, Culture, and Ethics. An African Concept of Evil
Cheikh Anta Diop émit l’hypothèse que l’environnement n’est sans doute pas étranger à l’unité culturelle de l’Afrique. Il n’était d’ailleurs pas le premier, car d’Aristote à Hegel on a toujours pensé que l’environnement modelait le comportement culturel. Même si cette hypothèse est plus philosophique que scientifique, il semble intéressant d’en établir au moins la validité philosophique et par la suite la légitimité scientifique, si besoin est. I…
"The New World and the Dreams To Which It May Give Rise": An African and American Response To Hegel's Challenge
In and Out of Africa Misreading Afrocentrism
Le livre de Mary Lefkcowitz, Not Out of Africa , a récemment attiré l'attention du public américain et international sur le débat de l'afrocentrisme. Bien que la position de Lefkcowitz se démarque nettement de celle de Cheikh Anta Diop qui posait comme hypothèse que toutes les cultures présentent une continuité que l'on peut faire remonter à leur origine africaine, une lecture attentive de Not Out of Africa montre clairement que son auteur admet,…
Afrocentrism and Acentrism: A Marriage of Science and Philosophy
My aim is to examine the roles philosophy plays in generating alternative views of the universe in order to make a place for philosophy in primary and secondary school education. My assumption is that both philosophy and science are ways of representing experience. They differ only along a continuum whose bands are marked by degrees of generality, guesswork, controversy, and novelty. Philosophy is the more ambitious of the pair as it tries to cap…
A Core Curriculum at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Immodest Proposal
[first].. contemporary learning suffers from a serious and immobilizing lack of any vital and effective integration, both as a body of knowledge and as a taught curriculum ...; second... this ineffectiveness is not so much an internal fault as it is an external dislocation in the relationship of knowledge to the problems of the social culture; and third... unless some revitalizing integration is soon attained, not only the social impotence of our…
In and Out of Africa Misreading Afrocentrism
Le livre de Mary Lefkcowitz, Not Out of Africa , a récemment attiré l'attention du public américain et international sur le débat de l'afrocentrisme. Bien que la position de Lefkcowitz se démarque nettement de celle de Cheikh Anta Diop qui posait comme hypothèse que toutes les cultures présentent une continuité que l'on peut faire remonter à leur origine africaine, une lecture attentive de Not Out of Africa montre clairement que son auteur admet,…
African Environmental Ethics: Keys to Sustainable Development Through Agroecological Villages
This essay proposes African-based ethical solutions to profound human problems and a working African model to address those problems. The model promotes sustainability through advanced agroecological and information communication technologies. The essay's first section reviews the ethical ground of that model in the work of the Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop. The essay's second section examines an applied African model for translating Afric…
Environment, Culture, and Ethics. An African Concept of Evil
Cheikh Anta Diop émit l’hypothèse que l’environnement n’est sans doute pas étranger à l’unité culturelle de l’Afrique. Il n’était d’ailleurs pas le premier, car d’Aristote à Hegel on a toujours pensé que l’environnement modelait le comportement culturel. Même si cette hypothèse est plus philosophique que scientifique, il semble intéressant d’en établir au moins la validité philosophique et par la suite la légitimité scientifique, si besoin est. I…
Die Überkinder: Nietzsche and Greta Thunberg, children and philosophy
Does Nietzsche imagine that an Überkind could prepare the path for an Übermensch? Linking Nietzsche to Greta Thunberg through their mutual concern about life's future, this essay reviews Nietzsche's 1871 through 1888 research on preparing children for a task demanding nearly superhuman powers: guaranteeing life's future against human irrationality's assaults. Rather than offering a historical analysis, the essay views his remarks as promptings fo…
Afrocentricity, ecocentrism, and ecofeminism: New alliances for socialism
An Ethics of Intimacy: Race and Moral Obligation
The author criticizes efforts to resuscitate W. E. B. Du Bois’s claim that people of African descent have a special obligation to each other premised on race. He concludes that Africana philosophers such as Du Bois, Alain Locke, and Lucius Outlaw do not claim to possess essential knowledge of the human condition but instead propose a story human beings can tell about what they’re doing with their lives. Their story exerts imperative force only wh…
A Core Curriculum at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Immodest Proposal
[first].. contemporary learning suffers from a serious and immobilizing lack of any vital and effective integration, both as a body of knowledge and as a taught curriculum ...; second... this ineffectiveness is not so much an internal fault as it is an external dislocation in the relationship of knowledge to the problems of the social culture; and third... unless some revitalizing integration is soon attained, not only the social impotence of our…
A Core Curriculum at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Immodest Proposal
[first].. contemporary learning suffers from a serious and immobilizing lack of any vital and effective integration, both as a body of knowledge and as a taught curriculum ...; second... this ineffectiveness is not so much an internal fault as it is an external dislocation in the relationship of knowledge to the problems of the social culture; and third... unless some revitalizing integration is soon attained, not only the social impotence of our…
Afrocentrism and Acentrism: A Marriage of Science and Philosophy
My aim is to examine the roles philosophy plays in generating alternative views of the universe in order to make a place for philosophy in primary and secondary school education. My assumption is that both philosophy and science are ways of representing experience. They differ only along a continuum whose bands are marked by degrees of generality, guesswork, controversy, and novelty. Philosophy is the more ambitious of the pair as it tries to cap…
"The New World and the Dreams To Which It May Give Rise": An African and American Response To Hegel's Challenge
In and Out of Africa Misreading Afrocentrism
Le livre de Mary Lefkcowitz, Not Out of Africa , a récemment attiré l'attention du public américain et international sur le débat de l'afrocentrisme. Bien que la position de Lefkcowitz se démarque nettement de celle de Cheikh Anta Diop qui posait comme hypothèse que toutes les cultures présentent une continuité que l'on peut faire remonter à leur origine africaine, une lecture attentive de Not Out of Africa montre clairement que son auteur admet,…
An Ethics of Intimacy: Race and Moral Obligation
The author criticizes efforts to resuscitate W. E. B. Du Bois’s claim that people of African descent have a special obligation to each other premised on race. He concludes that Africana philosophers such as Du Bois, Alain Locke, and Lucius Outlaw do not claim to possess essential knowledge of the human condition but instead propose a story human beings can tell about what they’re doing with their lives. Their story exerts imperative force only wh…
Environment, Culture, and Ethics. An African Concept of Evil
Cheikh Anta Diop émit l’hypothèse que l’environnement n’est sans doute pas étranger à l’unité culturelle de l’Afrique. Il n’était d’ailleurs pas le premier, car d’Aristote à Hegel on a toujours pensé que l’environnement modelait le comportement culturel. Même si cette hypothèse est plus philosophique que scientifique, il semble intéressant d’en établir au moins la validité philosophique et par la suite la légitimité scientifique, si besoin est. I…
Black to The future: A Philosophy for a Global Village
The aim of this article is to look for common ground in the philosophies advanced by Africans in the diaspora. The Africana response to racism establishes a tradition of resistance to oppression, grounded in a philosophy of freedom. What is the meaning of being Black in the world's future? What new philosophy emerges out of Africana experience? Challenging the orthodoxy of racist ideology, this article argues that Afrocentricity allows one to emb…
Philosophy's Roles in Afrocentric Education
Should philosophy be introduced as a formal subject to kindergarten through 12th grade students in Afrocentric schools? U.S. public education's aversion to philosophy is so pervasive that Afrocentric educators should consider whether they have assimilated this bias. This essay considers ancient Greek philosophy's possible roles in its construction. While challenging Plato and Aristotle's arguments against philosophizing before age 30, the essay e…
Afrocentricity, ecocentrism, and ecofeminism: New alliances for socialism
Philosophy Against Empire: An Ancient Egyptian Renaissance
What should be the politics of Afrocentricity? How should Afrocentrists fight globalization's empire, the continuation of slavery by other means? This article grounds political resistance to empire in an ancient Egyptian philosophy of holism. The article's theme is that four powerful movements are converging on a new philosophy. Paradoxically, this “new” philosophy is prefigured in the oldest recorded philosophy, that of ancient Egypt. The four c…
An African and American Survival Ethics: The Case of Cuba
Until recently the principal burden of ethics was to choose among the many possible directions we might take our lives. However, we now face an unprecedented crisis: the possibility of the extincti
Ancient Africa and the Structure of Revolutions in Ethics: A Prolegomenon for Contemporary African Political Philosophy
Nietzsche and Heidegger: PoPoMo philosophers avant la lettre
Nietzsche and Heidegger: PoPoMo philosophers avant la lettre." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1549–1550
The future of ethics and education: Philosophy in a time of existential crises
Philosophy confronts two existential crises: the threats to its existence from scientists like Stephen Hawking who claim that philosophy is dead; and the threat to life itself from catastrophic climate change. The essay’s first theoretical part critiques Nietzsche’s claim that philosophy’s primary function is to guarantee the future of life. The essay’s second practical part claims that philosophy must meet the challenge of life’s extinction thro…
African Environmental Ethics: Keys to Sustainable Development Through Agroecological Villages
This essay proposes African-based ethical solutions to profound human problems and a working African model to address those problems. The model promotes sustainability through advanced agroecological and information communication technologies. The essay's first section reviews the ethical ground of that model in the work of the Senegalese scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop. The essay's second section examines an applied African model for translating Afric…
Die Überkinder: Nietzsche and Greta Thunberg, children and philosophy
Does Nietzsche imagine that an Überkind could prepare the path for an Übermensch? Linking Nietzsche to Greta Thunberg through their mutual concern about life's future, this essay reviews Nietzsche's 1871 through 1888 research on preparing children for a task demanding nearly superhuman powers: guaranteeing life's future against human irrationality's assaults. Rather than offering a historical analysis, the essay views his remarks as promptings fo…
An Odd Coupling: Nietzsche and W.E.B. Du Bois on 21st Century Philosophy of Education
This essay contrasts Nietzsche’s remarks on elite education with W.E.B. Du Bois’ demand for democratized education. The essay takes their remarks as springboards for a twenty-first century philosophy of education rather than an historical account of their philosophies. Both thinkers cultivated Kant and Hegel’s dream that the spirit of freedom guided by reason would unite all the world’s peoples. Both held that education was key to realizing the d…
Philosophy (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Law (5 works)