Africans hold the presented world to be the best possible and incorruptible one.

Evidence

However, for the African the world as it presents itself remains the best of possible worlds, the only one possible because it is incorruptible and always offers something new for life. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 308

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• In African thinking the given world resists theorizing and debate (similarity 0.87)
• African philosophy reduces to the relation between man, world and God (similarity 0.84)
• Africa cannot claim pure history because the West shaped it (similarity 0.83)
• In African thought the world is experienced, not theorised about (similarity 0.83)
• Western depictions of Africans aimed at domination, not understanding (similarity 0.82)
• Bantu Philosophy’s historical lesson outweighs its philosophical lesson (similarity 0.81)
• African scholars collectively refute the colonial denial of African philosophy. (similarity 0.81)
• African philosophy must arise from its own cultural circumstances rather than replicate other traditions. (similarity 0.80)
• Life and eternal life form the constant foundation of African thought (similarity 0.80)
• Africa lacks a philosophical tradition because it never broke cleanly with colonialism. (similarity 0.80)
• Africans’ religious nature is affirmed by religionists and disputed by empiricists (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial educators had assumed Africans were blank slates needing civilizing. (similarity 0.79)
• Only Western-educated African intellectuals initially engaged with Bantu Philosophy. (similarity 0.79)
• Bantu Philosophy emerged from European perceptions and African resistance to Christianity (similarity 0.79)
• African philosophy is both universal inquiry and continentally rooted cultural reflection (similarity 0.79)