Confusing technical and vulgar senses of philosophy endangers African philosophy as a field

Evidence

Let us speak frankly: If we do not want to compromise the very project of philosophy in Africa, confusing the technical use of this term with its The African Debate on Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy 91 vulgar use, and reduce philosophy to a simple vision of the world, we must say that until the present there has not been a Bantu philosophy. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 540

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Africa’s neglected philosophical traditions can reshape the very definition of philosophy — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 393; African philosophy must reshape the very idea of philosophy, not fit a Western template; Ethnophilosophy erred by comparing traditional African thought with modern Western philosophy across mismatched epochs — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Africa’s neglected philosophical traditions can reshape the very definition of philosophy — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 393; African philosophy must reshape the very idea of philosophy, not fit a Western template; Ethnophilosophy erred by comparing traditional African thought with modern Western philosophy across mismatched epochs — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 440