班图哲学

简介

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”.

联系

被承接于

• 班图—卢旺达存在哲学1956 · 亚历克西斯·卡加梅

被批评于

• 论殖民主义1950 · 艾梅·塞泽尔
• 西方学术中的非洲宗教1970 · 奥考特·庇代克
• 论当今非洲的哲学问题1971 · 马尔相·托瓦
• 危机中的穆恩图：非洲的本真性与哲学1977 · 法比恩·埃布西·布拉加
• 非洲的发明1988 · V. Y. 穆丁贝
• 圣哲哲学1990 · 亨利·奥德拉·奥鲁卡
• 在我父亲的屋子里：文化哲学中的非洲1992 · 夸梅·安东尼·阿皮亚