Bantu-rwandyjska filozofia Bytu

Wprowadzenie

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.

Powiązania

Nawiązuje do

• Filozofia Bantu1945 · Placide Tempels

Krytykowane w

• Essai sur la problématique philosophique dans l’Afrique actuelle (Esej o problematyce filozoficznej we współczesnej Afryce)1971 · Marcien Towa
• Filozofia afrykańska: mit i rzeczywistość1976 · Paulin Hountondji