Anton Wilhelm Amo
1703 CE – 1759 CElived
Awukenu, Axim, Gold Coast
- Africana Philosophy
- Rationalism
Taken from the Gold Coast as a child, he became a doctor of philosophy at Halle and argued against Descartes that the mind does not sense at all. Returned to Africa in his fifties.
Known for
- against mind-body interaction
- the apathy of the mind
- rights of Africans in Europe