Tempels treats dialogue as an intrinsically political act

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The dialogue problem Tempels faced persists in the post-colonial era.; Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208; Dialogic interactions create open, critical, constructive spaces for negotiating differing ideas toward consensus — ‘Dialogic scaffolding’: Enhancing learning and understanding in collaborative contexts (+2 more)

Related

• The dialogue problem Tempels faced persists in the post-colonial era. (similarity 0.87)
• Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists (similarity 0.85)
• Tempels held that true dialogue requires Europeans to first abandon their superiority mindset. (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels’s openness enabled genuine African-Western philosophical dialogue (similarity 0.84)
• Tempels embraced dialogue as a categorical imperative for evangelization. (similarity 0.83)
• Tempels urged missionaries to abandon European methodologies for African dialogue. (similarity 0.83)
• Canonical African philosophy emerged largely in response to Tempels’s provocation (similarity 0.82)
• Tempels’s evangelization aim made him a philosopher of religion. (similarity 0.82)
• Tempels’s book targeted colonial practitioners despite his anticolonial aims (similarity 0.82)
• African philosophy debates still define themselves in relation to Tempels (similarity 0.81)
• Tempels’s dialogue with Africans arose from failed missionary conversion efforts (similarity 0.81)
• Dialogue is inherently a political act with world-making purpose (similarity 0.81)
• Tempels aimed to systematize Bantu ontology using Western philosophical categories. (similarity 0.81)
• Dialogue between unequal powers can serve domination as easily as liberation (similarity 0.81)
• Dialogue is inherently a political act, not art for art’s sake (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Politics is living with tension rather than postponing criticism #expands (0.50)
• The dialogue problem Tempels faced persists in the post-colonial era. #expands (0.40)
• Tempels helped initiate the debate over whether African philosophy exists #expands (0.40) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 208
• Canonical African philosophy emerged largely in response to Tempels’s provocation #expands (0.40) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 346