बांटू-रवांडी सत्ता का दर्शन

परिचय

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.

संबंध

जिस पर आधारित

• बांटू फ़िलॉसफ़ी1945 · प्लासिड तेंपेल्स

जिसमें आलोचना की गई

• आज के अफ़्रीका में दार्शनिक समस्या पर निबंध1971 · मार्सिएँ तोवा
• अफ़्रीकी दर्शन: मिथक और वास्तविकता1976 · पॉलिन हौंतोंजी