Tempels’s Aristotelian framework opened debate about African interpretations of reality

Evidence

Bantu Philosophy by Placide Tempels is considered a Western Aristotelian model in search of a way to approach and address the need to understand the African world view, especially by the Westerners. Tempels inaugurated a valid platform for discussions, debates, and confrontations regarding different human ways of interpreting reality: human beings, worlds (cosmos), the living (creatures), the planets in the sky, the world of the ancestors and, finally, the world (Heaven/Paradise or the reality of God the Creator). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 196

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tempels’s question about African ontology counters Western denial of African philosophy — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 891; Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208; African philosophy debates still define themselves in relation to Tempels — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 508 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tempels’s question about African ontology counters Western denial of African philosophy — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 891; Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208; African philosophy debates still define themselves in relation to Tempels — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 508 (+5 more)