Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The problem of 'man' in Bantu philosophy
Author:Kagame, A.A.ISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:The African Mind: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy in Africa
Volume:1
Issue:1
Pages:35-40
Language:English
Geographic terms:Subsaharan Africa
Africa
Subjects:philosophy
man
Bantu-speaking peoples
Philosophy, Psychology
Bantu area
Abstract:Throughout the Bantu cultural zones of Africa man is conceived as a complete animal on the one hand, and as an existent of intelligence on the other. Life consists in the union of the body with the two vital principles: the shadow or animal principle and the principle of intelligence. Death is the dissolution of this union. In the Bantu conception, there is no sanction after death. All sanctions take place on earth. There are three categories of goods to which punishment or reward are attached: the goods of fortune, of the person and of offspring. The goods of offspring take precedence over the others and represent, as it were, the ultimate end of man.
Views