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AIPPh Documentation Leus<strong>de</strong>n 2009<br />

philosophy (Münnix 2000), which in<strong>de</strong>ed does not only have European roots (Mall<br />

1998). Hellenistic philosophy took place all around the Mediterraneum; St. Augustine<br />

came from Tunesia, Thales from today’s Turkey, Averroes from Arabia, Plotin from<br />

Egypt. ( see Holenstein 2004) But very old Chinese and Indian thinking traditions too<br />

have to be taken into account as well: they have to be compared with occi<strong>de</strong>ntal<br />

thought. But beyond comparatistic philosophy we have to discuss our concepts of truth<br />

(a <strong>de</strong>construction of binary logic may well be nessecary) and about what the limits of<br />

tolerance should be. Intercultural phenomenoly and epistemology, different ways of how<br />

to think according to different traditions of logic and philosohy of language all have<br />

consequences for intercultural hemeneutics. And of course different approaches to<br />

intercultural ethics have to be discussed between the cultures, not only aca<strong>de</strong>mically.<br />

And we try to do this with philosophers from many nations in the Society for Intercultral<br />

Philosophy.<br />

But the second reading is just as important: an intercultural discourse about the<br />

didactics of philosophy - as we do it in the AIPPh - will enable us to discuss various<br />

methodological concepts in teaching philosophy from different points of view, influenced<br />

by different philosophical traditions and personal preferences. An exchange about our<br />

aims and the subjects that we think should be compulsory in teaching philosophy today<br />

will help us not only to un<strong>de</strong>rline the global inmportance of our subject, but also to find<br />

particular ways in doing so. And this joint venture again is enrichment.<br />

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