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100 1 0 _aDiagne, Souleymane Bachir
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245 0 0 _aRevisiting “Bantu Philosophy”: The idea of a philosophical grammar
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520 _aIn spite of his ambiguities, Tempels was one of the first Europeans to recognize references to a developed philosophical system by an African society. Forty-five years after its publication, a critical review of Bantu Philosophy helps renew our thinking about the relations between philosophy and African languages, thus permitting us to escape the impasse of “ethno-philosophy.” This article argues that, while every language forges a specific “vision of the world,” this does not imply confinement in a given “mentality”: language “induces without necessitating.”
786 0 _nPolitique africaine | o 77 | 1 | 2000-03-01 | p. 44-53 | 0244-7827
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-politique-africaine-2000-1-page-44?lang=en
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