Tempels remained indebted to European thinkers like Hegel and Levy-Bruhl despite his goals

Evidence

In this period of time, individuals had to fall within the category of thinkers to be counted among the philosophers or intellectuals of their time. It is in this framework that we can read and appreciate without prejudice the Bantu philosophical work of Placide Tempels. Bearing this premise in mind, we can count Tempels among the scholars who contributed to the general birth of African Philosophy as well as the starting point of the debate regarding whether or not there is any African philosophy at all. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208 (#expands, via linked claim)

German philosophers, from Kant to Hegel, had not assimilated Hume’s arguments. I say this deliberately, in spite of the belief which many philosophers share with Kant, that his Critique of Pure Reason answered Hume. In fact, these philosophers—at least Kant and Hegel—represent a pre-Humian type of rationalism, and can be refuted by Humian arguments. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2449 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: German idealists like Kant and Hegel remained essentially pre-Humian rationalists — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2449; Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208; Tempels’s work ended Enlightenment claims that Africans lack reason, while subtle prejudice persists

Related

• Tempels’s work ended Enlightenment claims that Africans lack reason, while subtle prejudice persists (similarity 0.90)
• Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists (similarity 0.89)
• Hume and Kant supplied the racial judgments Tempels opposed. (similarity 0.89)
• Tempels’s book targeted colonial practitioners despite his anticolonial aims (similarity 0.87)
• Tempels wrote Bantu Philosophy for practitioners, not professional philosophers (similarity 0.86)
• Tempels’s Bantu Philosophy challenged colonial assumptions that Africans could not think logically. (similarity 0.86)
• Tempels aimed to systematize Bantu ontology using Western philosophical categories. (similarity 0.86)
• Tempels reserved systematic philosophical articulation for European intellectuals (similarity 0.85)
• Placide Tempels originated the claim that Africans have a philosophy (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels first raised whether an African ontology exists (similarity 0.85)
• African philosophy debates still define themselves in relation to Tempels (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels argued Bantu culture merits philosophical recognition partly through resemblance to Christian Europe (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels claims Western philosophy is needed to articulate Bantu thought (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels broke with colonial paternalism to defend African rational capacity (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels’s evangelization aim made him a philosopher of religion. (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Tempels’s work ended Enlightenment claims that Africans lack reason, while subtle prejudice persists #qualifies (0.70)
• German idealists like Kant and Hegel remained essentially pre-Humian rationalists #expands (0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2449
• Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists #expands (0.60) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208