Filozofia Bantu

Wprowadzenie

Placide Tempels, a Belgian Franciscan missionary in Katanga, wrote the book in Dutch; it first appeared in French in Elisabethville (today Lubumbashi) in 1945 and was reissued in 1949 by Présence Africaine in Paris. Tempels claims that Bantu thought rests on a coherent ontology in which being is “vital force”, organised in a hierarchy from God through the ancestors to the living, animals and things. He intended this reconstruction to help missionaries and colonial administrators understand the Baluba and to further the civilising mission. The book is often regarded as the first to speak of an African philosophy as such and shaped the debate for decades; Hountondji later made it the prime example of “ethnophilosophy”.

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Podjęte w

• Bantu-rwandyjska filozofia Bytu1956 · Alexis Kagame

Krytykowane w

• Rozprawa o kolonializmie1950 · Aimé Césaire
• African Religions in Western Scholarship (Religie afrykańskie w nauce zachodniej)1970 · Okot p’Bitek
• Essai sur la problématique philosophique dans l’Afrique actuelle (Esej o problematyce filozoficznej we współczesnej Afryce)1971 · Marcien Towa
• La crise du Muntu. Authenticité africaine et philosophie (Kryzys Muntu. Afrykańska autentyczność i filozofia)1977 · Fabien Eboussi Boulaga
• The Invention of Africa (Wynalezienie Afryki)1988 · V. Y. Mudimbe
• Sage Philosophy (Filozofia mędrców)1990 · Henry Odera Oruka
• In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (W domu mego ojca: Afryka w filozofii kultury)1992 · Kwame Anthony Appiah