Tempels’ negative European views trace to Hume and Kant racial judgements

Evidence

The negative Eurocentric views that Father Tempels refers to in Bantu Philosophy are traceable back to the racial judgements against the African intellect of David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Hume represented this Western imperialism and racial degradation when he contended that: I am apt to suspect the Negro, and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 929

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Enlightenment philosophers’ racist tracts — the direct ancestry of the colonial lens Tempels inherited. — connects to: Without any apparent sense of irony, Hume wrote, “We are well aware that Mohammedans, wherever found, constitute a difficult, and hitherto a comparatively unfruitful field…They regard themselves as God’s peculiar people, and look with feelings of hatred and contempt upon all opposing religions.”; Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed.; Kant’s racial taxonomy denied moral capacities to non-Europeans — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 931 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Without any apparent sense of irony, Hume wrote, “We are well aware that Mohammedans, wherever found, constitute a difficult, and hitherto a comparatively unfruitful field…They regard themselves as God’s peculiar people, and look with feelings of hatred and contempt upon all opposing religions.”; Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed.; Kant’s racial taxonomy denied moral capacities to non-Europeans — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 931 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed. #corroborates (0.97)
• Tempels reserved systematic philosophical formulation for Europeans only #complicates (0.76) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 727
• Tempels reserved systematic philosophical articulation for European intellectuals #complicates (0.75) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 506
• Tempels imposed Western interpretive categories despite advocating local grounding #complicates (0.74) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1017