Samantha Vice
Samantha Wynne Vice (born 12 March 1973) is a South African philosopher who is distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Her areas of specialisation are ethics and social philosophy, and she is especially well known for her work on the existential and moral philosophy of race. Is there still a role for white academics in South Africa?
Quotes
edit- Many white South Africans, including myself, are committed to contributing to South Africa. This is our home and at the same time we experience the tension of feeling we benefited from a long history of injustice and we wonder whether there is a place and role here for us now.
- The whole question makes me feel deeply uncomfortable and I have been trying to work through this, in both a personal and academic context, for many years.”
- At the same time there is no question that Philosophy Departments should be teaching African Philosophy and Non-Western Philosophy.
- Part of eradicating racism would be to eradicate the forced identification of oneself as a particular public and political products.
- How Do I Live in This Strange Place?
- It is appropriate for white South Africans to feel shame because of their association with the brutality, oppression and dispossession that were part of the apartheid past, particularly when it is likely that they have benefited from it.
- I am ashamed of my brother for beating his wife.
- I have been characterised as a self-hating attention-seeker and directed to commit suicide.
