Tempels himself asserts that the pagan African is stable because ontology grounds his life

Evidence

Christian Neugebauer also identifies some glaring contradictions at the theoretical-methodological level. First of all, he asserts that Tempels posits that the uncivilized African, the “pagan,” does not change when Tempels states, “Why does not the African change? How is it that the pagan, the uncivilised is stable? Because the pagan founds his life upon the traditional groundwork of his theodicy and ontology” (Tempels, 1959, p. 26). — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 556

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tempels contradicted himself by claiming the pagan African never changes; Tempels equated African Vital Force with Western philosophical Being — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 199; Tempels grounded African activity in a life-based ontology, not a Being-based one. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 227
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tempels contradicted himself by claiming the pagan African never changes; Tempels equated African Vital Force with Western philosophical Being — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 199; Tempels grounded African activity in a life-based ontology, not a Being-based one. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 227

Broader Connections

• Tempels equated African Vital Force with Western philosophical Being #complicates (0.82) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 199