ASOUZU'S NOETIC PROPAEDEUTIC AND THE ISSUE OF RACISM
The Mind-set and Conception of treating and judging people based on their skin colour as a basis or condition for handling their affairs well, is a misconceived and misplaced approach in human relations. This misplaced conception explains the bias of the human mind thereby, considering some skin colour as superior, civil and more human than some. It explains the reason for racial issues and discrimination. This work titled Asouzu's Noetic Propaedeutic and the Issue of Racism, a coinage in his complementary Philosophy, critically argues that such mind-set is prejudiced. It avers that the underlying principle of human beings is Humanity and not colour or tribe. If our minds are informed and always set on humanity as the relating factor for human beings, racism would be managed. All human beings share in the same humanity, as skin colour, place of origin are merely attributes to humanity. Thus, Noetic Propaedeutic as used by Asouzu, calls for reeducation of such misconceived and erroneous mind-set. Through critical reasoning and Analysis, this work holds that the re-educating of the mind serves as a constant reminder to humans that humanity is the basis for our relationship to one another.
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