Abstract: These forum remarks offer three examples of European-language writers who mobilized anti-Cartesian African worldviews in order to challenge eighteenth-century Western philosophies of materialism. The writings of Anton Wilhelm Amo, John Atkins, and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano not only provide a record of African thought in the literary record, they also demonstrate how Western metaphysics was invariably shaped by an intellectual engagement with African ideas about spirit and matter.
Rebekah Mitsein (Thu,) studied this question.