Ethnicity, culture and philosophy

The question of the place of ethnicity within philosophy can be understood as the question of reconciling the conception of philosophy as a universal quest for universal truths with the fact that its various historical instantiations are always marked by their spatio-temporal localization. In other words, it is the question of whether philosophical pluralism at the cultural level should be considered a value, rather than a defect, as it was for HEGEL (chapter 33). If it is granted that the different perspectives that different cultures bring to bear enrich philosophy, this not only reopens the debate about the nature of philosophy, but also opens Western philosophy to kinds of critical reflection that have so far been foreign to it.