Kwame Nkrumah, (1970), Consciencism, page: 2, publisher: New York University Press, ISBN: 0853451362, retrieved: 14 March 2018
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The evaluation of one's own social circumstance is part of the analysis of facts and events, and this kind of evaluation is, I feel, as good a starting point of the inquiry into the relations between philosophy and society as any other. Philosophy, in understanding human society, call for an analysis of facts and events, and an attempt to see how they fit into human life, and so how they make up human experience. In this way, philosophy, like history, can come to enrich, indeed to define, the experience of man.

— Kwame Nkrumah on Philosophy

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The evaluation of one's own social circumstance is part of the analysis of facts and events, and this kind of evaluation is, I feel, as good a starting point of the inquiry into the relations between philosophy and society as any other. Philosophy, in understanding human society, call for an analysis of facts and events, and an attempt to see how they fit into human life, and so how they make up human experience. In this way, philosophy, like history, can come to enrich, indeed to define, the experience of man." in the context of "Kwame Nkrumah, (1970), Consciencism, page: 2, publisher: New York University Press, ISBN: 0853451362, retrieved: 14 March 2018" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Kwame Nkrumah

About Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.