الفلسفة البانتوية-الرواندية للوجود (La Philosophie bantu-rwandaise de l’Être)

مقدمة

Alexis Kagame wrote the book as his doctoral thesis in philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome; it was published in Brussels in 1956. He accepts the claim of the Belgian missionary Placide Tempels in Bantu Philosophy (1945) that Bantu peoples have a philosophy, but insists that it must be shown in the structure of a language. From the Kinyarwanda root -ntu combined with noun-class prefixes he derives four categories – umuntu (beings with intelligence), ikintu (things), ahantu (place and time) and ukuntu (mode) – and compares them with Aristotle’s ten. Paulin Hountondji later took the book as a central example of “ethnophilosophy”; others read it as an early attempt to do philosophy in and through an African language.

الصلات

يستند إلى

• الفلسفة البانتوية (Bantu Philosophy)1945 · بلاسيد تامبلز

انتُقد في

• بحث في الإشكالية الفلسفية في أفريقيا اليوم (Essai sur la problématique philosophique dans l’Afrique actuelle)1971 · مارسيان توا
• الفلسفة الأفريقية: أسطورة وواقع (Sur la philosophie africaine. Critique de l’ethnophilosophie)1976 · بولين هونتونجي