Life and eternal life form the constant foundation of African thought

Evidence

The relationship between the individual and the community synthesises African Vitalogy. Thus, it results that in every phase of the African way of thinking – both the traditional way where values are transmitted orally and in the successive phase where values are transmitted in written form – the intuitions of life that we have insisted upon are always the same, even though each period has its own originality. The idea of life and eternal life is the foundation of the African way of thinking – yesterday, today, and tomorrow. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 334

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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• Core intuitions about life persist across oral and written African thought (similarity 0.96)
• Life is the single enduring reality underlying all thought and beings. (similarity 0.88)
• Life, not abstract Being, grounds African philosophical first principles. (similarity 0.88)
• All thought within a culture expresses one aspect of universal truth. (similarity 0.87)
• African thought roots all reflection in everyday lived culture (similarity 0.87)
• African philosophy reduces to the relation between man, world and God (similarity 0.86)
• For Africans, entering life means entering God’s eternal memory permanently (similarity 0.86)
• African vitalogy holds that no one truly dies; only change occurs (similarity 0.86)
• Vitalogy is the science of reflected life rooted in culture and everyday living. (similarity 0.84)
• The doctrine of Vital Force unites Western Being and African Life (similarity 0.84)
• In African thinking the given world resists theorizing and debate (similarity 0.83)
• Proper African living is striving toward ever greater likeness to God (similarity 0.83)
• Life, man, and God are preconceptual and transcultural realities in African thought. (similarity 0.82)
• Vital force moves up a hierarchy of values culminating in God as Creator (similarity 0.82)
• In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living (similarity 0.81)