班图—卢旺达存在哲学

简介

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.

联系

承接了

• 班图哲学1945 · 普拉希德·坦普尔斯

被批评于

• 论当今非洲的哲学问题1971 · 马尔相·托瓦
• 非洲哲学：神话与现实1976 · 保兰·洪通吉