Crahay faulted Tempels for conflating lived with reflective philosophy.
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- Tempels neither invented nor discovered Bantu philosophy. (similarity 0.86)
- Tempels held that Africans express thought only through ritual, not discourse (similarity 0.84)
- Tempels had no university training beyond seminary before writing Bantu Philosophy (similarity 0.84)
- Tempels first made personal status depend on community in African philosophy (similarity 0.81)
- Reflective thought arises only in crisis situations, yet caste breaks trigger none. (similarity 0.81)
- A philosophy’s historical impact is measured by its sediment in common sense. (similarity 0.80)
- Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.80)
- Fulfilling Raynal’s prophecy demanded politics, not vengeance (similarity 0.80)
- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.79)
- Tempels shifted from colonial monologue to dialogical method after observing mission failure. (similarity 0.79)
- Totalitarianism adopted tribalism for its isolating value even against its own doctrines (similarity 0.79)
- Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.78)
- Discourses form coherent wholes through interlocking statements sharing strategy (similarity 0.78)
- Caesarist forms must be read individually, not as rigid schemata (similarity 0.78)
- African philosophy must arise from its own cultural circumstances rather than replicate other traditions. (similarity 0.78)